[quote=Astara]Look. Div2 is not the first nor the last game on Steam to use other means of DRM than Steam itself. From Larian's track record i can also tell you that the DRM will almost certainly be removed with a future patch.
No sane person likes DRM. In many cases i have been forced to use cracks for my legally obtained older games, because the type of DRM used is incompatible with todays OS-es. There is no reason for such an obnoxious witch hunt though. Securom is certainly not the worst kind of DRM around these days. Have you played any Ubisoft games recently? Even Steam has its problems as a DRM, the offline mode is not the most bug free thing since sliced bread.
If they get around to removing SecuROM in a future patch, then I will certainly purchase the game, until then I can happily live without it, after all upcoming games like "The Witcher 2" won't have any of that crap, so I won't exactly be short of games to play.
As for my so-called witch hunt, in what way have I been obnoxious? I am only expressing my concerns to the developers of the game, if they feel my concerns are justified, they can pass on those concerns to their publishers, if not, they won't. I don't have a problem with publishers using DRM if they must, even if it's use has a negigible effect on piracy, my main issue was the complete overkill of having 2 forms of DRM in one game- both Steam and SecuROM. I'm glad you don't find SecuROM too bad, compared to some other forms of DRM, but everyone's PC is different, with different specs, configurations and components, therefore reacting differently to the same software. I know what SecuROM did to my old computer, so I refuse to take the risk with my new top spec one.
