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Agreed. I have been leaning towards Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising for months now. I am just completely blown away by the community that surrounds ArmA and BI. Keep up the good work guys.

Keep your pants on. :P I'm trying to get it downloaded so I can upload it to FileFront.

I...am...EXCITED!

I know your question was directed at Dwarden, but I would be very surprised if you could not just do the same. Many of my non-Valve games through STEAM allow you to launch the game w/o STEAM running, or directly from a shortcut anyway. Also, if you create shortcuts, you can just add them to your STEAM game list as a non-STEAM program/game.

I wondered as well. But from what I read, the STEAM release is SecuRom free. So, I am not sure.

No problem. :) That's how I will be purchasing the game. Word on the street (according to the FAQ) is that the demo will release through STEAM as well.

Dwarden posted a FAQ this morning (my time) that pretty much covered all my concerns over purchasing through STEAM rather than grabbing a retail copy (patching, modding, et cetera). http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=904059 And you can submit questions to go in the FAQ here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=892315

Not at all. All they are referring to not working is what is called the "STEAM Overlay." It allows you to push a key combination in game to pull up the community/overlay features (chat, web browser, et cetera). This is very similar to the Xfire in-game overlay. STEAM should launch the game just fine.