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Article #720243Re: What the f--- is steam?
From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:08
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:08
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On 11/27/2013 12:58 PM, Peter Huebner wrote: > In article <tfc799t32m5447gem...@4ax.com>, > ladysarah@theresnohole.inmyhead says... >> Thank you very much, Spalls. I am, indeed, not a troll. I just have >> not played computer games lately. I really miss the days when you got >> a large book with each game. I guess I'll go ahead and try Steam, I >> thought it was going to put me in an on-line game. >> >> > > > Sarah, what I didn't see Spalls mention is this: After the initial > account creation and verification/activation of your game via Steam, you > can run Steam in "offline mode". That is its one redeeming feature: you > don't have to be online to run your game once the initial handshaking > has been done. Is that an "initial handshake" only upon game installation or is it an "initial handshake" each time the game is started? (Serious question, not an attempt to flame.) -- The 'Enterprise' crew in the 2009 Star Trek are adrenaline addicted, hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate wouldn't tolerate.
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X-Received: by 10.15.51.132 with SMTP id n4mr17526255eew.3.1385615328335; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:08:48 -0800 (PST) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!hj15ni8416wib.0!nntp.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!novia!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:08:44 -0800 From: Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: What the f--- is steam? References: <ulq499hdtli684b084oqu20r4i43mcrt63@4ax.com> <uiq699ltcv03arpse9eoeot64apiob729c@4ax.com> <tfc799t32m5447gem0qjuo5jaqefc3vnis@4ax.com> <MPG.2d0124203488d01f98973e@news.individual.net> In-Reply-To: <MPG.2d0124203488d01f98973e@news.individual.net> Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5296cfd8$0$52808$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Nov 2013 05:08:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66df852d.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=f33P7YNZW];>`oL3C<JMB3m4K\QM1CV^01OYf0H`?;X1He02;@JfcJ8CCd9<aL]eO8o:m8c=a8gW? X-Complaints-To: ab...@sonic.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit