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On 1/20/2017 3:25 PM, Xocyll wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
>
>> 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.
>
> Except the whole point of going into offline mode and saving your
> credentials is so that you can start steam and play games in offline
> mode while you have no connection, IE on a flight or somewhere remote or
> during a scheduled outage.
>
> Kind of defeats the purpose if offline mode needs to go online during
> offline mode and crashes out if it can't.
>
Of course it does.  But making it check online first is typical IP-think 
these days and if any of the people in charge see the issue they're 
likely to consider it a bonus rather than a bug.  :)


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