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Article #697137Re: GOG Connect doesn't make sense
From: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:34
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:34
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Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote: >Just to clarify something here, you will need a working internet >connection to download and install a Steam game but if the game itself >is a single player game, it should work fine without an internet >connection once it is installed. In practice it doesn't seem to work all that well, based on the complaints I've heard. In particular you've missed one step that's required for it to work at all. You need to play the game once while logged into Steam's servers for it work in offline mode. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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