Adzeth: It's a fascinating approach. I never thought about renaming the demo as a "DRM free version". Marketing people just keep getting craftier.
Neobr10: Let's at least get facts straight here, it's in no way a demo, it's the complete game without Steam Workshop (which, SURPRISE, is a Steam feature) and DLCs.
Also, let's be realistic for one second. Steam offers servers up to keep modding up at a meager cost to developers. It's not realistic to expect that such a small company would afford servers to keep all the community content for an indie game that will probably cost U$15-20. They're not EA or Activision.
I do agree that they could have offered DLC support for the DRM-free version. But expecting full community-driven content is kind of unrealistic when you consider all the advantages of using Steamworks.
See the posts by Stiler and Decivre. Why would they have to host mods themselves? They should simply make it possible to mod the DRM free version without much trouble. I don't have a problem with Steam, but promising a DRM free game and then not making additional content available to the DRM free people sounds like a really shitty approach that will cost them a lot of goodwill. I find it very annoying when developers only offer incomplete versions on certain platforms (more annoying, in fact, than not offering the game on that platform at all).
But maybe they will provide clarification soon and say that fans will be able to host mods (and host official DLC themselves).