🚀 go-pugleaf

On 1/20/2017 8:35 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
> spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
>> Been playing in offline mode for several days, although I shut off steam
>> when I finish playing.
>>
>> Oddly enough, despite supposedly being offline steam keeps updating
>> itself every time it's activated.
>>
>> Today, just a few minutes ago I firewall blocked it and then ...
>>
>> remember it's been set to offline for about a week now ...
>>
>> "Could not connect to steam network.
>> This could be due to a problem with your internet connection, or with
>> the steam network.   Please visit www.steampowered.com for more info."
>>
>> and of course steam exiting and refusing to start despite having been in
>> "offline mode" for a week.
>>
>> I guess steams "offline mode" is like Fox News "Fair and Balanced"
>> coverage, a trademarked name/title, not an actual statement of reality.
>>
>>
>> One wonders exactly how someone traveling and playing via laptop where
>> there is no coverage is supposed to play using an "offline mode" that
>> insists on connecting to the steam network and exiting with an error if
>> it cannot?
>
>
> Bizarrely, after unblocking it in the firewall steam continued to exit
> with that same error.
>
> I had to go fully online for it to work at all.
>
> Valve really don't understand what "Offline" means do they?
>
> You've chosen to start in offline mode, ok, going online...
>
Its obvious isn't it?  Steam has to go online to check if you are 
authorized to go offline.

:D


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