Urgent Help Required With @~£$%^R&% STEAM.

MatTheCat

MatTheCat

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I am about to embark on a 6 week stint at sea. Not all is lost, cos I invested in a gaming laptop to keep me amused in my spare time.....except STEAM went and tried to log on in online mode, the vessel's internet server obviously refused the connection, which caused the log in to fail, and now I can't get into Steam and am therefore locked out of all my games....that I paid money for.

There is clearly just a nasty little reg entry somewhere preventing me from getting into my Steam account in offline mode. Can anyone point me to where this is and/or what I need to do get back into my Steam account without logging into their servers?
 
Last time I looked at it I think it was far more complex than a registry entry.

IIRC you can try disabling the LAN/NIC adapter before starting steam and it will sometimes let you in.

(Some games - mostly older ones - that are installed via steam will let you run the executable file in their installation folder without having steam running to play them but thats not a solution for all games).
 
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Do you reckon that a system restore would do the trick?

I would only want to try this as a last resort as I have been touching cloth racing against time to get another ratty DRM infested scum Apple IPod, that I bought in an emergency when I realised I had left my friendly trad drag n drop files mp3 player at home. I finally managed to itunes on my PC and also got my iPod sync'd with my PC on the ships internet. A restore means I would lose all that and would only risk doing that if I thought the pay-off was going to be getting access to my games.
 
redstar1 said:
It's back up.
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Jeeezus...

That was close....vessel steaming out to North Sea and Steam lets me back into Offline Mode.......Question is, how the hell did STEAM servers being down result in me not being allowed to log into 'Offline Mode'.

Will have to make damn sure that Steam doesn't try to phone home ever again for the rest of this trip.

Also, workaround for me was to go to gamecopywolrd and download cracks. Only managed to get Saints Row 4 crack through the vessels firewall but having that would certainly much better than having big phat phuvk all.

I have had big issues with steam shafting me before with it's offline mode but I thought they had fixed it...seems they haven't.......cracks all the way for me from now on I think.
 
MatTheCat said:
Jeeezus...

That was close....vessel steaming out to North Sea and Steam lets me back into Offline Mode.......Question is, how the hell did STEAM servers being down result in me not being allowed to log into 'Offline Mode'.

Will have to make damn sure that Steam doesn't try to phone home ever again for the rest of this trip.

Also, workaround for me was to go to gamecopywolrd and download cracks. Only managed to get Saints Row 4 crack through the vessels firewall but having that would certainly much better than having big phat phuvk all.

I have had big issues with steam shafting me before with it's offline mode but I thought they had fixed it...seems they haven't.......cracks all the way for me from now on I think.
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I used to spend months behind a firewall that blocked access to steam. I always launched steam in offline mode beforehand and never had any issues. A lot of games can be launched from their exe's without steam even running.
 
You have to connect to steam once before you can start using offline mode. Now that its set to offline it will not try to connect.
However i think it has a time limit (like 30 days) before it will require another connection to authenticate.
 
modo77 said:
You have to connect to steam once before you can start using offline mode. Now that its set to offline it will not try to connect.
However i think it has a time limit (like 30 days) before it will require another connection to authenticate.
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Wrong.

It will try to connect.

17 days into my latest stint offshore, Steam tried to connect, couldn't connect, and now I am prevented from playing all my games on my laptop until I get back on 6th May.

I would like to rip off Gabe Newell's head and take dump in the hole where his neck used to be. I won't let this happen to me ever again with any DRM system. I will acquire cracks for all my existing single player offline games, and I know which 'version' of games I shall be downloading in the future.
 
You could try using imaging software to capture your system just after it allows you to use the offline mode.

Save all game saves to a USB stick as you play.

Then as and when it throws a tantrum you go back to the system image of just after it allowed the offline mode again. Bear in mind the date and time will (obviously) now be incorrect to keep it believing it's at an older date.

If I feel particularly bothered to do so I use system images to get around trialware, installing dubious programs, experimenting with system settings.

To fully ensure it keeps believing a "wrong" date you might need to disable internet access in case it tries to check.

I personally use Acronis True Image.
 
I've always argued steam is DRM.

anyone who doesn't see it is blind.

I found out when steam is offline I can't even play GTAV...... even though I had to log in through rockstar anyway where I put the steam cdkey into...

what kind of BS is that lol


It's like instead of 1 drm from rockstar I get a second one from steam as well.....

If you buy a game you should feel free to use a crack for offline play just back up the files you replace
 
Witcher1979 said:
Careful some of the steam fanboys here on this forum will not believe that steam actually is DRM. I actually got banned from a steam game forum once for saying it was.
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Of course Steam is DRM, the same way Origin is too and Uplay. That doesn't mean that developers won't add additional DRM, but that's besides the point.
 
You have to be online to choose to go offline first, as it changes some files to work, it wont bother you after that, but every new game requires it.
 
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