Offline mode needs seperate .exe

[aeroripper]

They should really incorporate a secondary .exe strickly for offline mode (no updates, just having having to have it open so you can play your game anytime you want)

What if i didn't have internet access on my computer? They should just make it mandatory if you ever want to play it online.

Ie... hl2... say steam is down for a day and that means i can't play hl2 for a day because steam is having problems and i hafta re-log in the database so i can play singleplayer

seems kind of retarded to me IMOH :upstare:

[Letters]

Then you run into the problem of people downloading the game to different computers and allowing people to play the game in offline mode for free.

[aeroripper]

:( never though about that one

looks like steam is used for anti-piracy too

[bass-101]

When steam is down it will popup saying "blahblah unavailable"

2 buttons appear "retry" and "offline mode"

[DevgruSeal]

That would truly suck if HL2 wouldn't work because someone hacked steam...and made them go offline...

[Epsi]

But yeh, like bass said, if Steam goes down, you can just run offline. You just have to make sure you don't logout.