The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

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Originally Posted by Skullcowboy

Perhaps. There are several rumors floating around about the whys and wherefores of Neoqb dropping the requirement of a connection for single player. But most telling is their official announcement about it. I would think (my opinion only) that if the DRM had been a resounding success they would trumpet that from the roof tops and brag about how much money they saved because of it and how it was no longer needed. Instead, we get some talk about forum polls, customer opinions, network stats and marketing trends and how they are confident that legitimate copies will outnumber pirated ones. What I take away from all this (again, just my opinion) is that doing this will sell more copies. I am not so sure I would equate that to the DRM having done it's job.
Read and judge for yourselves :http://riseofflight.com/Blogs/post/2010/02/05/LOGIN-OFFLINE-ACCESS-GRANTED!!!.aspx

Agreed. It's what's not written in Neoqb's official announcement that speaks more than what was written.