The whole point of my getting a physical disc is to have a copy of the game that can installed anytime anywhere without having to have an internet connection.
I've been copying down the quotes from the Kickstarter comments page: this may help ease your mind:
We're not looking for a war with our backers & understand that for some of you DRM free means never having to go online. For those that absolutely want it (and who backed us on Kickstarter) - we're thinking of doing a second print run which will contain the game + the last updates available at the time of the print-run. It's but a thought at this point because we're unsure if that's what you really want, but if indeed that's what you & others are looking for, then we'll organise it. We'd of course still send out the Regular and Collector's Editions once they arrive in our office.
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Steam Version Required for patching - 5 @Helena:
We had lots of problems with updating the GOG versions when Dragon Commander released which is why we didn't go for it this time on the retail discs. In the run up to release every minute counts for us (literally) and we want to avoid digital distribution logistics misery as much as possible. We really don't have any other interest in Steam activation. If we had hidden motives (whatever they might be), then we wouldn't be putting DRM free versions on GOG & not deactivate copy protection on Steam.
We're not looking for a war with our backers & understand that for some of you DRM free means never having to go online. For those that absolutely want it (and who backed us on Kickstarter) - we're thinking of doing a second print run which will contain the game + the last updates available at the time of the print-run. It's but a thought at this point because we're unsure if that's what you really want, but if indeed that's what you & others are looking for, then we'll organise it. We'd of course still send out the Regular and Collector's Editions once they arrive in our office.
