Hi troopie, it was a comment I read on Amazon UK, I thought it a bit odd too that you needed to activate on Steam when Ubisoft run the drm thing themselves...
I know that you can run games ' offline' on Steam, but you still need to log into your account to switch to offline, which may not be possible, I assume that Ubisoft do something similar.
As long as that is the case I wont be buying SH5.
I've read dozens of similar complaints from buyers and potential buyers, I think if this is the future for Ubisoft games they may have shot themselves in the foot!
valkyrii