Skyrim when your internet is down

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is this for real??

this morning i got up and my internet router was playing up, yesterday i had a very techy friend come over and install a new one, i guess it didnt like the fact that i turn everything on my system off at the power point every night.

anyway i thought no probs hes probably still in bed so ill just play some Skyrim for a while.

 

i hit the Skyrim taskbar icon

"steam - updating"

that soon disappears

"connection error, could not connect to the steam network - blah blah blah"

ok i realise this, thats why i wanted to play the game.

two buttons at the bottom of the window, "retry connection" & "start in offline mode"

ok, thats what i want to do so ill do that.

uh uh, not according to Steam.

i hit the offline button, ding ding "steam error, this operation cannot be completed when steam is in offline mode"

only button on that window is "ok"

thats it, no Skyrim offline game.

WTF!

 

now i already knew it had to connect to play, and i have played it in offline mode on and off for a long time.

but ffs seriously, you have to be online to turn it offline??

 

i wish i had still bought this game but just downloaded a different version to actually play.

FU steam, long live The *not allowed*.

 

i posted this in the technical support forum in case there was actually a solution to fixing this, obviously i am on the net now so everything will be ok to play but just in case for the future.