What is the point of starting a new topic to address a year old topic that is now moot? Are you expecting more retail releases of D:OS?
It has yet to be decided if there will even be a PC retail release for the EE.
Some of these 'facts' are not actually facts in this case. D:OS does not use any DRM or require Steam to run (just to install, update or use Steamworks functions).
If people don't want to use Steam at all, they can get the GOG reelase of the game.
This guy used to spam the GOG forums but got bored when people stopped responding--or he was banned--I don't know which, don't care....;)
It's easy enough to disprove his "
offline mode doesn't exist" ranting about Steam...
Last two games I bought through Steam...PoE & Witcher3 do not require that Steam be running at all to launch and play...Steam only needed for patching, the optional achievements, and the optional time clock, and just like the optional Steamworks functions with these games, GOG's Galaxy functions are also optional. Valve said long ago that it is up to the game's publisher to tell Valve what DRM, if any, is applied to their games.
And, it's also common knowledge that GOG sells all of its games without DRM...I happened to buy my D:OS from GOG, but just as easily might have bought it from Steam had I known that like PoE & Witcher 3, D:OS through Steam was also DRM-free.
I would think that once EE is final that Larian would simply continue to sell D:OS as usual, only with the EE version label. I can't see any reason for a separate EE release, myself, unless Larian deliberately wants to sell them separately--which wouldn't make much sense, imo...;)
