I have to say I do like Skyrim and think it is a great game, and Bethesda are doing some good things but yes, it is unfortunate that they are using steam. All part of the new "cloud" software Nonsense making people dependant on the company to access the software they supposedly purchased. Yes you get a DVD but you still have to be online for a full installation. Otherwise the DVD will not do you much good obviously all the installation files are not on the DVD and either part of the software or activation files have to be accessed online for the DVD to work. All the people that are kidding themselves how convenient this is, keep in mind you can never go wrong being self reliant. If you've got the full Program on DVD all you need is a computer and a plugin and you can access your game or software regardless of what the company does or promises or whether they keep their promises. Of course company's would prefer to lease things to people rather than sell it to them. If you sell it you get the customers money once, if you lease you continually get money from them. This in my opinion and in the business plans of several company's out there is... once enough people have been convinced to place part or all of their data or software such as games/movies ect with company's on a "cloud" (translation on their servers or hard drives not yours) mark my words they will start to charge you monthly fees eventually to store it. (We allready see more and more electronics being pushed with less storage capacity) Tick the company off or break one of their rules and there goes your movies games and software access. People should wake up to this, remember the saying, possession is 90% of the law.