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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.

Xocyll
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