Originally Posted by skavenhorde 
I'm hoping they'll change their minds sometime in the future. Maybe after six months to a year has gone by and they don't need to worry about their sales being affected by pirates. I doubt it, but who knows?
I bet they stick to their guns. They know they are pissing some people off but their goal is to keep this online service model for all their games. I don't see them giving in.
A console release seems obvious at this point and a console game cannot be online only, so my current plan is to either play it on console or buy the console version and play a cracked PC version.
I can't give them my money for the PC version with this online only auction house scheme.