On the blooming thought of my soft-core nerd victory and impending Epeen rampage thanks to the Wizards of ASUS and HardOCP. I would begin to smirk awkwardly as I lean over in my chair to gaze upon my invisible admirers... Whom cowering in the shadow of my might, praise me as their master, and...
As for implementation I agree it will probably be a steam like variation, with a SN from the game disc registered to your account, as for offline play that can be simply added via protected auto expiring permission cookies, thus if you fail to log in for a month you will be cut off from playing...