Gamersgate have Silent Hunter 4 Gold on sale at 75% off but it has Tages. IIRC there has been a lot of negative comment about the DRM. Is it an "acceptable" DRM now - i.e. conflicts with Win7 resolved, not intrusive any more?
So - Snog, marry, or avoid? ;)
Tagés is better than StarForce, but not as good as DRM-Free. According to this info at GamersGate (http://www.gamersgate.com/gametutor?issue=239781), Tagés normally has online activation with limited installs.
I dislike Tagés and its ilk with their limited installs, but considering the abundance of unplayed games in my backlog along with how cheap most games are nowadays they don't bother me as much as they once did. Paying $5 for a game I wanted to try would not prevent me from purchasing Silent Hunter 4 Gold (http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SH4GE/silent-hunter-4-gold-edition) even if it only has three or four installs and online activation, provided there is nothing more draconian that I don't know about.
In short, if I wanted to play SH4 I would pay $5 to do so despite its Tagés DRM.
Thanks Greybriar. I appreciate your advice. :)
I now need to check if the sale is still on! :-\