Quote Originally Posted by Elmar Bijlsma View Post
Burn the installation files on a disc or an external HD or any number of alternatives. Really, some people have only themselves to blame.

On Steam, it's quite good in some places and annoyingly authoritarian in others. It should leave more things up to me, as I am pretty good at knowing wqhat I want and when, unlike Steam. Yet it insists on interfering in my decision making every opportunity it gets.
I'd just as soon not have it, but not quite up for boycotting it. But I must raise objection to the statement that if not Steam, then SecuRom. There are a whole range of DRM that are less annoying, and of course the option of no DRM.
Steam was chosen to help CA/SEGA flog DLC, our ease of use did not figure in that decision at all, so we can gripe about it all day, it would matter not one jot.
It requires online authentication upon install and to play. No offline mode for EA....