@ St-Falco

Thanks for your reply. It is as I feared: need online activation.

Yes, I can get dial up. Perhaps $10/month is not a big deal. But when I'm paying big bucks at the office for internet in the Mbps range, I find it very hard to pay for 40 kbps at any price(yes that's the best I can get at home) for the sole purpose of online activation.

If there was a toll free automated phone number option (ala the anoying windows vista OS activation), I'd go for that.

I loved Crysis. I really wanted to play Warhead, but I'm not going to pay extra money because of DRM. I loose because I don't get the play the game. Crytec looses because that's one less copy sold to a non-pirate. It will be interesting to see if the sales numbers for Warhead support crytec's theory about ratio of paid games/pirated games and how they got hosed with Crysis.

Another looser in this, is PC gaming. I have Bioshock, Assasins Creed and Mass Effect for xbox 360. While the xbox hardware is dated compared to my PC, I put CD in xbox, game plays...

Could someone clarify activation requirement. Is the online activation just if online play is to be done, or to even play single player? First game did not require internet (which I do not have at home since 40 kbps even for $10/month would result in too much mental agony and I can't get DSL or cable at home). The only reason I updated my home computer after 8 years (from windows me to vista...the horror.., but with quad core and a graphics card that can heat a room) was so I could play crysis, which I did. I have been looking forward to Warhead very much. It would be ironic, if I am unable to play Warhead because of new DRM requiring online activation, as if this is the case, there is no point in getting game. If that is the case, they real irony would be that Crytec griping about not selling enough games and worrying about pirates, and yet I who have never Pirated a game, would not be able to play new game!!