Please remove the always online requirement of steam to play Games

[-Bullet-]

It looks like you're unable to keep your servers up so please remove the requirement to have the Steam client running to authenticate and let us play our Games.

[Melraik]

It's been like this for 17 years. So no

[Start_Running]

If anytrhing its likely to become more mandatory due to the shenanigans people are getting up to.

[Cyronic]

thing is, just having no internet you can still launch steam in offline mode, but for some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up reason whenever steam is down you can't

[-Bullet-]

Originally posted by RippingFawn84:

Lol wut? You can play your games on Steam while offline right now.

While that is true it doesn't apply to games like Rust that require steam authentication to join the game servers.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by -Bullet-:

Originally posted by RippingFawn84:

Lol wut? You can play your games on Steam while offline right now.

While that is true it doesn't apply to games like Rust that require steam authentication to join the game servers.

Then why aren't you posting this in the rust forums....

[Zekiran]

When you have a game that has online play in any way - even as insignificant as leaderboards in a single-player game - it MUST have that connection.

I mean, that's ... pretty obvious, I would think.

Yes, there should be some kind of downtime-bonus, in some way, but... sometimes downtime cannot be avoided. You can't play those online games while your computer's offline. this isn't something that Steam can help. It's something that the developers should address directly.

[baneman1]

Originally posted by RippingFawn84:

Lol wut? You can play your games on Steam while offline right now.

Uh, no.
It was down for the last 4-5 hours for me and there was NO option to play offline - just "Retry" or "Quit".
Even more annoying because the game I wanted to play is Single Player !

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by baneman1:

Originally posted by RippingFawn84:

Lol wut? You can play your games on Steam while offline right now.

Uh, no.
It was down for the last 4-5 hours for me and there was NO option to play offline - just "Retry" or "Quit".
Even more annoying because the game I wanted to play is Single Player !

That's why you need to complain to the individual developer regarding the "always online" component. Steam doesn't dictate this, the devs do. Obviously if you're playing a Valve game, that's still on them - but any other developer? That's their decision to install this feature. It's a crap feature, particularly for those single-player games. I absolutely could live forever without a leaderboard for like, Just cause or whatever, but... there we are.

[nullable]

Originally posted by -Bullet-:

Originally posted by RippingFawn84:

Lol wut? You can play your games on Steam while offline right now.

While that is true it doesn't apply to games like Rust that require steam authentication to join the game servers.

Steam is DRM, it's going to need to be running for online games. That's always been the nature of the beast. Offline mode was only ever for games that could be played offline singleplayer. And even if you can pull up examples when that's not the case, Steam making the system stricter isn't a bug and they're almost certainly not going to change it.

[8ullfrog]

eh, if the downtime is planned, maybe they should just auto-offline mode the app.

[MR.MadMan]

thats why i prefer a cd-disk to play expensive games
becouse if steam decide to pull to plug.... no one can play their games anymore
said it 9years ago when i played my first game on a random platform and will say it again

so they shut give us at least a option somewhere to make us chose if we want to play a game with that cpu/internet speed draining cient on the background

like a cain on your leg when you're trying to leave your house
(i know that this how the world works...so...i'll just start up steam again)

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by MR.MadMan:

thats why i prefer a cd-disk to play expensive games
becouse if steam decide to pull to plug.... no one can play their games anymore
said it 9years ago when i played my first game on a random platform and will say it again

so they shut give us at least a option somewhere to make us chose if we want to play a game with that cpu/internet speed draining cient on the background

like a cain on your leg when you're trying to leave your house
(i know that this how the world works...so...i'll just start up steam again)

"Expensive games" ... do you mean "old games that aren't going to be updated even if they're broken"? Because that's every game since 2010 at the latest.

Steam and Valve have stated expressly, that if their services are ever in danger of vanishing, they will make arrangements.

But you go right ahead and attempt to play that nothing-actually-on-the-disk install cd, without updates. Hopefully nothing will ever happen to your disk. Or the drive.

[nullable]

If Steam is affecting your performance that much you probably have trouble running games from this decade...

As for the rest of it, well it's rose tinted glasses, like physical media didn't have drm, couldn't become useless when drm servers went down, doesn't wear out or break or get lost. Steam trades some of those issues for different issues. Which cons do you prefer me wonders? I mean I guess it hardly matters, Steam and digital distribution won. And no matter how fondly some of us may remember the good 'ol days, they're never coming back.

[TheRandomGuy]

Offline mode has worked for me for every non-multiplayer game I have. I believe it only requires you log in once every now-and-then, but generally, you don't need to be online to launch a game on your storage drives.

Alternatively, you could just launch the program directly via it's executable file, it should work as well unless the game requires Steamworks.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by TheRandomGuy:

it should work as well unless the game requires Steamworks.

Almost entirely every single game on sale for the last decade plus, requires Steamworks - steam's distribution system.

That's... literally what this entire thread has boiled down to.

The OP is butthurt because the servers occasionally, you know, have to be maintained, or have unexpected issues.

I mean, how about playing games when there's no power? I don't have a phone, I can't play anything. Who do I complain to?