dayglo98 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 First you're a twit for paying 60$ for this gameSecond you're likely not gettting your money backThird learn to read and use Offline Mode if it's such an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InuyashaFE Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 How many types of stupid is this Steam B.S.? Not many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikezilla Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 There are people around that are not online? You only have to be online while you log into steam, than you just start offline mode and done How do you play "offline mode"? I'm sick to fookin' death of having to wait 5 - 20 mimutes for slowazz steam to finish syncing my game after a crash so the loader will allow me access to start playing. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayglo98 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) There are people around that are not online? You only have to be online while you log into steam, than you just start offline mode and done How do you play "offline mode"? I'm sick to fookin' death of having to wait 5 - 20 mimutes for slowazz steam to finish syncing my game after a crash so the loader will allow me access to start playing. thank you In steam, Steam menu, switch to offline mode...seriously did you even try lol Edited December 11, 2012 by dayglo98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stabbykitteh Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 How do you play "offline mode"? I'm sick to fookin' death of having to wait 5 - 20 mimutes for slowazz steam to finish syncing my game after a crash so the loader will allow me access to start playing. thank you That actually sounds like you have Cloud Sync turned on. You can turn it off in the Steam settings under the Downloads + Cloud tab. No problems with Steam here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachdonin Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 How do you play "offline mode"? I'm sick to fookin' death of having to wait 5 - 20 mimutes for slowazz steam to finish syncing my game after a crash so the loader will allow me access to start playing. Dude, are you on dial-up? Whenever my game crashes (only happens with plugins running, and i'm too damn lazy to figure out which ones causing it) it takes all of 30 seconds to synch. Tops. This sounds like more of a hardware problem than something Steam's doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riprock Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) I dislike Steam greatly as a concept. I am as prejudiced against it as you can be against software Having said that, I've tried pretty hard to find anything that is truly a negative regarding Steam that isn't just my impression of what a PC game 'should do', and there are no actual real downsides. I'm perhaps a little older than some of you folks, and I have to say that being brutally honest about my own opinions has been my hardest life-lesson...and my opinions about Steam are simply because of the fact that I don't want to like it: Steam doesn't do anything "bad" except violate the Rules for PC Games that I've made up in my head Which means of course, that the "problem" is my attitude about Steam, not Steam itself I guess knowing that about my own opinions means I finally gained a measure of wisdom Edited December 12, 2012 by Riprock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnimeOtaku102 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 How do you play "offline mode"? I'm sick to fookin' death of having to wait 5 - 20 mimutes for slowazz steam to finish syncing my game after a crash so the loader will allow me access to start playing. thank youYeah, as others have already said you just go to the upper left hand corner of your Steam window and click Steam -> Go Offline. You don't even need to go back online unless you want to update or download something, I've restarted my computer plenty of times without Steam asking to go online again. You might also want to turn off Cloud Synching (Library -> right click Skyrim -> Properties -> Updates and uncheck "Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"), Skyrim's saves can get pretty bloated and the synching is kinda retarded, so if you deleted any saves Steam will just download them all over again. And again. And again. And. Again. (Valve really needs to include a Cloud storage management feature) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasmerd Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 steam - patch .0000001 captcha works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0rsel0ver Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I dislike Steam greatly as a concept. I am as prejudiced against it as you can be against software Having said that, I've tried pretty hard to find anything that is truly a negative regarding Steam that isn't just my impression of what a PC game 'should do', and there are no actual real downsides. I'm perhaps a little older than some of you folks, and I have to say that being brutally honest about my own opinions has been my hardest life-lesson...and my opinions about Steam are simply because of the fact that I don't want to like it: Steam doesn't do anything "bad" except violate the Rules for PC Games that I've made up in my head Which means of course, that the "problem" is my attitude about Steam, not Steam itself I guess knowing that about my own opinions means I finally gained a measure of wisdom I wish more people could be self-critical in this way. A lot of people tend to absorb their opinions from others, rather than forming them. In absorbing a point of view, a majority succumb to popular appeal, and in the case of steam, I see a lot of people lumping it in with the general "always online" criticism.This isn't to say that steam is objectively good, but that a belief should be supported with fact rather than feeling. Digital distribution isn't going away, it's growing bigger. While there are intrinsic flaws with most digital content models, the benefits trump physical media in most ways. In the case of "Always Online" issues, steam's offline mode is an immediate solution, well explained in the thread and elsewhere. Compared to services like EA's origin, which are increasingly shoehorned into physical media, steam is straightforward and consumer oriented, and generally a hassle-free experience. As with most technical innovations, it's too late to reverse the trend towards digital marketplaces and any effort spent complaining about the general state of things (like a game requiring secondary software) is wasted. Focus concerns and criticisms towards the service providers and make sure that these services continue to prioritize the individual, or we will have the worst of both physical and digital media services in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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