As Winston has already said; I like STEAM. And when I bought Dangerous Waters it was already at Rev 1.03. I also play HL2 which gets regular updates as I suspect DW will. I can also make a back-up to another drive, cd or DVD of the game just in-case my current drive goes south. I can quickly click on the backup executable and reload the game. As far as Stand-Alone, I am curently still learning this game and have not tried Multi-Player but I do know that I can play Solo without the STEAM Engine being up. I will have to eventually try to play Multi-Player but from what I can see I do not think there should be problems playing on any Server in the world but I am new to that aspect and there are others more versed in that part of STEAM.
Bill.....