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Originally Posted by RickR
I loved SH3 and join this community when I was playing it, long ago. When SH4 came out, I refused to purchase it due to it being connect to STEAM as I have had too many bad experiences with Mr. STEAM and will not use any product with it - period - so you can sticks and stones me or throw crap at me but no, no, never.
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Your barking up the wrong tree. SH4 didn't release on steam. If you get the gold edition on disk, it won't have any DRM whatsoever. Now, you can buy SH4 on steam (I think), but is it a steam only release? No. Is it saddled with any DRM? No.
Now SH5 however, has Ubisofts version of steam. It's a wannabe copycat thing. Some of your big name publishers are jumping on the steam bandwagon and making steam looking REALLY good. Ubisoft came out with Uplay, and EA came out with Origins. Anyway, SH5 is saddled with Uplay. While some folks will maintain that Ubisoft removed the DRM, thats not true. All Ubisoft did was add an "offline mode" to Uplay. Something which steam has had all along. Before the "offline mode" was added, you had to have a 100% solid internet connection at all times. While that is no longer the case, it still saddled with Uplay, which is in all actuality, is worse then steam.