I, too, have been waiting to see if a "gold" edition of SH3 would be released without SF.
This is kind of off-topic...but does anyone know if the
demo of a game called City Life used SF? I heard it does.
The reason I asked is that I installed that demo before I found out that it might have SF. Later I had to copy some data to DVD--and had no problem doing so.
If the City Life demo has SF, then apparently it did not cause problems with my DVD drive and I night be able to safely buy SH3, Starforce or not.
This is pretty pathetic, agonizing about SF and whether or not one can purchase and install SH3 without problems. But I just want to avoid having computer problems wherever possible.
Because of browser problems yesterday I spent a couple hours talking to tech support people, and then about 4 hours trying different things to get my internet access back. I wound up having to copy whatever data I could to DVD and then reinstall Windows.
Total time spent: about 7 hours.
Computer problems eat up LOTS of time.
Which is why I am so determined to avoid them.