A reason I'm glad only two of my games are steam...

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Our phone line is out for an undisclosed amount of time and I cannot play either of the two newest games I have, steam and the countryside don't pair well!
 
Had this problem recently when BT managed to screw up and cancel our phone line accidentally :( for some reason steam wouldn't login on any of the dongles/tethered mobiles I tried but several of my games would actually work offline outside of steam if I had steam up on the error prompt that no network was found lol (wouldn't work without steam running at all). Unfortunatly others would still says "this game has to be launched through steam".
 
None of mine will work offline either, I do miss the days when you put a disk in, install, play! Still buy 95% of my games on disc
 
Rroff said:
Had this problem recently when BT managed to screw up and cancel our phone line accidentally :( for some reason steam wouldn't login on any of the dongles/tethered mobiles I tried but several of my games would actually work offline outside of steam if I had steam up on the error prompt that no network was found lol (wouldn't work without steam running at all). Unfortunatly others would still says "this game has to be launched through steam".
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A lot of mobile internet has port or routing restrictions that block steam. If you go through a VPN or ssh tunnel/etc you can get round this though.
 
I played and finished metro 2033 on Steam while I had no internet connection. Well it got connected towards the end. I think my stats say that I've played it for 5 hours because it didn't count the time when I was offline
 
Just been through this myself, DSL knackered due to a line fault and Steam despite saying it would work offline wouldn't launch a damn thing due to it needing to update itself. Managed to eventually, but highly irritating.

They get around it because in the requirements it says:

Steam Minimum Requirements said:
Internet connection (broadband recommended)
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FrenchTart said:
A lot of mobile internet has port or routing restrictions that block steam. If you go through a VPN or ssh tunnel/etc you can get round this though.
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Yah, but pretty much everything else works and my tethering pack is supposed to be "pure" internet without port blocking. Didn't bother to try tunnelling as the connection was so slow it wasn't worth the hassle - so slow I think steam thought it was losing connection and timing out.
 
I'm going to try to access it using my desire t mobile data plan, all it needs to do is connect, first time I ever used tethering! Using it via my HP tablet! Cause our wired interet is sub 1megabit edge doesn't seem too slow!
 
Robert1986 said:
You can play steam games offline.
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You need to be online to turn it offline, at least I did about a month ago.
It has always done this for me, I've never succesfully managed to get it to work unless you're online first. I'm not sure if steam had offline mode at the very beginning but over multiple machines, multiple operating systems in 7 years it has always been this.


1: No internet.
2: Start Steam: Says it's updating for 1-2minutes, probably something it does when no connection is detected.
3: This pops up:
steamoffline1.jpg

4: Click Start in Offline Mode.
5: Derp.
steamoffline2.jpg
 
If I have connection problems with Steam then my iPhone comes into play - switch Personal Hotspot on, connect, carry on. :p

I appreciate this isn't always possible for everyone mind. I do feel Steam's positives outweigh it's negatives by far though.
 
When I had no internet for the first few weeks in the new house I hooked up my phone to my pc, logged into steam and then put it into online mode from there, after that it just booted in offline mode every time I turned my pc on, The whole process took about 30 seconds
 
I know digital distribution is all the rage now but it's doing my head in to be honest. I got my hard copy of Red Orchestra 2 today, installed it but Im still forced to download 8GB of updates before I can play. My internet speeds are patchy at best and im currently getting a whoping 200kb per second, will be hours before it's finished, what a ****take.
 
Same that wouldn't work for me - it seems if you have a game or client update "pending" you can't go into offline mode without having an internet connection - fully updating everything then switching into offline mode.
 
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