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I would have replied to this thread sooner but it’s been a busy week at work. Thank you for the honesty of your replies on the subjects, it’s been very much appreciated. I decided to leave this game alone for the time being for the 2 following reasons: 1. Patch activation – Because I only have access to the Internet at work it will be at least 24 hours, possible 72 hours (over the weekend) after installing the patch the first time before I can play the game (I’m assumi

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[quote] You only need to activate on a non-Internet connected PC once, which you can do via email from a system that is on the Net. The most painful part is having to write down the activation string and enter it manually. [/quote] Will that have to be every time I install the game, or once it is activated it can it be install

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[quote] if you dont have internet at home, why would you get a multiplayer-based game anyways? [/quote] Like Multianna said its still a single player game. (Unless thats been removed and nobody has told me!) [quote] if you dont have internet at home, why would you get a multiplayer-based game anyways? Its still a single player game. <br/

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[quote] Yarlen would need to confirm, but I'd expect it'll be the same as GC2. No disc copy protection, but registration+activation required for patches (and by extension, online play). [/quote] dear god please no.... this activation of the patches was precisely why I did not buy GC2. Not having the Internet at home makes it a real pain with all this type of activation bull. Patch activation is almost as bad as the activation mess that was Bioshock (another game I could not get)