Dark0ne Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 So I've just moved in to my new place and I won't have a landline broadband connection until later on this month. I'm using a mobile 3G broadband dongle which, despite my not wanting to like it, is actually extremely stable and good. Only thing is it's not proper internet, it's a bit like being behind a proxy, so I can't use Steam. No problem because Steam has an offline mode, you'd think, right? Wrong. It seems in recent months Valve have updated Steam so that you can no longer use Steam offline without first logging in to Steam and telling it go in to offline mode. That, quite frankly, is ridiculously stupid. This means if your internet goes down, or something happens which means you cannot login to Steam, you cannot play any of your Steam games unless you logged out from Steam the last time you used it and told it to work in offline mode. Similarly, if you have Steam setup so it remembers your username and password you're crap out of luck. Pants-on-head-stupid. If anyone has any idea how to get around this utterly daft mechanism so I can play the 80-odd single player games I have on my Steam account, so I don't have to crack the games, I'd appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rational314 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I've had a bit of hit and miss with getting it to restart in offline mode, with the internet connection being completely disabled on my computer over the last couple of months. However like I said it's been a very hit and miss thing, and I've had to be completely offline for to work, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halororor Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Oddly, mine never does that. The moment my connection dies, I can go into offline mode without a hitch, unless there's no login details saved on my PC. I've heard of other people having the issue though, so it seems to be very hit and miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualBlack Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I have the same issue for offline mode. Since I have no internet up at my farm my 80 something game library is also useless. My cousin had some luck with bethesda games using a obse/4gb launcher. It didn't work for me, but what he did was click steam and leave its "start in offline mode" menu open. Than he would launch either Skyrim or Fallout while the menu was left in background. It may or may not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halororor Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 It was possible to launch Skyrim without Steam running at first, but they released a patch a while back to block that. Unless he's still on the old version, it probably won't work any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracinfields Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 One of the last patches did mess up Steam's offline mode for awhile The work around was to put your log in ID in lower case. Try that and see if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Some games, other than Skyrim, can be run directly from the game folder using the launcher or .exe. It's not perfect, but it's something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) ... I'll save you from yourselfFrom those demons of the nightThey promise fame and fortuneAll that you eagerly desire. I'll save you from yourselfFrom those voices calling youSell your soul to evilThen you'll be dancing forever. ... Era - Sentence Once you gave up control of your own, neither promises nor talk of goodwill can protect you from being handled like the puppet you did of yourself - words of wisdom. PS: I opened an exception to Steam for Skyrim. If not for any other reason so I can be fair when talking about it. But now this might mean my retirement from gaming too if the marketing is irreversibly going in that direction, anyway there are still many old games more deserving than the lot coming up these days. Edited January 5, 2012 by nosisab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halororor Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 wat. druid's garden forum is that-a-way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) I'm sorry you did not see the relation with the topic. Edit: I'm not actually contrary to the idea of a place like steam, just it is taking too much and getting too far in that relation with the consumer, well, actually the whole IP thing is. Edited January 5, 2012 by nosisab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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