Offline play mode

[petzerg]

I was thinking about buying this game. I won't have an internet connection for the next year though and I was wondering if this game is playable offline.

I just want to make sure. Assuming is bad.

So, can I play this game offline?

[Valjevsko Govedo]

I played it offline last week. So, yeah, it's doable.

[petzerg]

Thanks.

[Emmote]

You won't have an internet connection for a year, you going to the North Pole?

You won't get any of the alpha updates then. You really willing to play Alpha20 for a year?

[petzerg]

Nope, West Asia. Internet contractors will be leaving shortly after I arrive.

[Proteus]

What will you do to the asian internet contractors, that they all will leave asia after you arrive?

[petzerg]

I was too general I see. Internet service isn't going to be available in the part of Afghanistan I'm deploying to.

[Bat Daddy]

Dude, be forewarned. Steam offline works for only a couple weeks without internet connection. I was away for training for a couple weeks and it eventually required me to login to select play offline or some jazz along those lines.

Had a friend of mine take his laptop on the ship. Same thing had happened to him with all his steam games.

I think you should look into it, regardless of just this game.

[petzerg]

Thanks for the head's up.

[DigitalImpostor]

Originally posted by The Dorner:

Dude, be forewarned. Steam offline works for only a couple weeks without internet connection. I was away for training for a couple weeks and it eventually required me to login to select play offline or some jazz along those lines.

Had a friend of mine take his laptop on the ship. Same thing had happened to him with all his steam games.

I think you should look into it, regardless of just this game.

With Prison Architect you also get access to a DRM-free copy of the game.

[Emmote]

As Digital said, go here to get it:
http://www.introversion.co.uk/prisonarchitect/builds.html

If you can't access it, follow the directions on this page:
http://support.introversion.co.uk/customer/portal/articles/871540-how-to-activate-your-account

[emheath]

You can open the game up without even loading steam by going into the directory for steam (mine is: D/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/Common/Prison Architect) Then you click on the application and the game (should) load.

[kilyle]

I'm glad there's a DRM-free version because we lost internet for a while last night and I was getting a bit peeved that I could play even Skyrim but not Prison Architect. Even though I was logged into Steam in offline mode just fine, if I tried to play Prison Architect then it said it couldn't access the key server or something, and the same thing happened if I tracked down the files in my Steam directories and tried it outside of Steam.

THIS IS A SINGLE-PLAYER GAME. There is no reason to have to be online to play it.

I hope that eventually this thing will be set up so that nobody who bought a legitimate copy will have to find out the hard way that they can't just play the copy, but have to come download a second version or fiddle with settings or whatever just to be able to play the game they bought. We live on the edge of the woods and have multiple power-outages a year, and occasionally the power stays on but the internet goes off. It shouldn't brick a game I paid good money for.

[ KARR™]

Originally posted by kilyle:

THIS IS A SINGLE-PLAYER GAME. There is no reason to have to be online to play it.

No there isn;t. You don't need to be, i can play it offline on a laptop really easily without any sort of connection to the network at all. That was either a bug with the Steam version at the time or your installation.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by kilyle:

THIS IS A SINGLE-PLAYER GAME. There is no reason to have to be online to play it.

And you don't - You DO need to be online every so often (for a few seconds) for Steam to be sure that you're still legally allowed to play ANY of your games.

It takes all of five seconds on wifi, or through a phone's network to log into Steam. Even troops abroad can do it.