There are many thousands of gamers who live in the country area's of Australia alone that either don't have internet access or 56k modems that are not good enough, these people have no chance to play these games at all, it's ridiculous!! I am one of them, but even so, the whole idea of being online for a single player game is stupid, activation yes, but not permanent!

My only chance to play the game is if the game is patched or a damn crack!

I can see only an increase in piracy!!

There is one ray of light though, there are many who wont buy games that have this type of DRM, this
will create a market for an alternate method of protection by other manufacturers! Money is money!