I still don't see how you can call that DRM.

If it was torrented it would go speedyfast. Yay!

Maybe he meant; DRM as in Download Reduction Measures! :o)
You know the 11 to 300kbs that GG gives its users. And here I was thinking it was just me lately when I bought Titans Quest Gold, and Aztaka and it too hours and hours to DL them.

This is why download-only for major releases won't work.
With games getting bigger all the time, it would mean that the majority of people who have crappy or no internet access would be screwed.
I mean, I have an okay connection, but I have to download larger things (like Batman the other week) off peak, otherwise I would be waiting hours. It's less convenient for me than a boxed copy.

Yep, basically their entire server infrastructure is in Sweden. They really, REALLY need to expand it outward.

Lol... they just released Spellforce Platinum on Steam... for $15

Lol is right. I'm going to go post all over that forum about GOG.

They don't get all the cool bonuses we get do they?

LOL to WoodJO not Valve or Steam.

Don't forget to get banned. If you're NOT banned from that forum, you're doing it wrong.

I used steam for the first time yesterday (torchlight!), and I found it to be remarkably painless. Steam's offline mode seems to work fine, which makes it only slightly worse than Impulse (which isn't bad at all), as far as I´m concerned.

Yeah. Fun isn't it.

I love steam but this might actully be the first time I'm slightly pissed at them, slightly because this is not really new, I mean, you couln't play ghostbusters or The Witcher outside the allowed countries either.
However that might have been an honest mistake, games are generaly not released worlwide at the same time so steam used the only IP it had available (the japanese one) to check if the game was released. But I still thing the country where the game is bought is what should matter, hope they fix that.

Actually, yes you could. This is the *first* Steam store sold game that is restricted by IP. For the record, I had the Ghostbusters game gifted from a friend in the US on its day of release and it plays perfectly -- as do all my other games not sold over Steam in Japan.
Just not DA:O. And most likely, no new games either.
Sadly, according to replies from support they are NOT going to "unlock" the game for Japanese IPs. It will be forever restricted here. Which is why they are offering refunds. But refunds are simply not acceptable.