RickyRoper

First of all, its very easy to simply hack the game to play without steam i.e. bittorrent, and then download mods and patches elsewhere, second of all, i think the best step toward a completely integrated skyrim experience would be simple arenas, where you could team up by I.P. address with a friend and have 2v2, 3v3 or 5v5 arena matches, it would take just a few hours to make an easy arena, and the rendering wouldnt be difficult without NPCs or complex interactions - just straight up mayhem