Larian has a bad history dealing with DRM. In one of their games they had to break the DRM for an update to install and then re-apply the DRM. The result was a patch for the game to take far longer then what was necessary. There was also the story of making the DRM protected master copies and driving over 2 hrs to the company for them to copy and distribute the game. Getting a phone call that none of the master copies worked and they had to do this again... and again... and finally the company was able to distribute the game. I think this happened with Divine Divinity (a.k.a. Divinity: Sword of Lies).
Then there are the fees, DRM isn't free for any game company to use. Now I don't know what the negative effects are for insurance reasons to not have DRM (if any negative effects exist). What is worse is that all the game companies know there are people out there that strive to break DRM in less then 24 hrs and distribute the media (not just games) on the internet. Often this distribution is free.
If you buy the Divine Divinity Anthology with the Developer's Diary, you'll read about the Hell they went threw over DRM. The main difference between Larian and everyone else comes in the form of basic common sense. You should be able to order that either threw Amazon or the Larian Vault. I'd personally recommend threw the Larian Vault.
Real fans buy the Early Access version on Steam...
Just kidding
Actually real fans did this over a year ago during the Kick Starter Campaign. I think the highest donation was like $2500.
All is good, new fans are just as awesome here as us ol- um "well aged and wise" fans.
