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Is it always online? I thought you just needed to be online when you booted the game, so your singleplayer game wouldn't exit on you if your internet died.
by Drakim 9y ago
Is it always online? I thought you just needed to be online when you booted the game, so your singleplayer game wouldn't exit on you if your internet died.
- lozenge 9y agoClose enough. There is an offline mode in the Steam menus, but you need to be online to initially activate it.
- proactivesvcs 9y agoIME the offline mode is very flaky indeed. Every time I've needed it, it failed me.
- floatboth 9y agoDepends on the game. Some games (especially older ones) can launch in offline mode
- stordoff 9y agoIt's completely game dependent. You can distribute games that are completely DRM-free through Steam if you wish: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
- lithos 9y agoI remember some of the loops that we needed to go through to keep Steam working on a ship. Where personal PCs can stay airgapped from the Internet for 9 months to a year. Changing date (windows and bios), system rollbacks, and just about anything else. It was pretty terrible. In theory offline mode is supposed to work, and does on Mac. But on Windows steam breaks itself eventually.