It's useful to remember that the people making indy games today are the same sort that were making shareware back in the '90s. Stupid stuff like that is a huge blind spot.

who ever said indie games where the good guys? their simply the underdogs.

That's the way with all DRM schemes. But it on;y takes once for them to bite you in the ass and it sours you on DRM for good.

Which in a way is good. Steam is one of the better monopolies out there, but it's still preferable to diffuse the power a little. Although, with all these accounts here and there, different permissions, always online, online activation for offline mode, serials.... Isn't it obvious that DRM free is the only way to be? *puts daffodil in gun barrel*

The only issue I ever had with Uplay was that it kept overwriting my previous saves in Splinter Cell: Conviction. I still enjoyed it.

If you don't care about the multiplayer option there's an obvious solution considering you already paid for the game anyway.