Need to remove offline mode from steam

Need to remove offline mode from steam
Hello I am using steam from last one year and I think the offline mode has to be removed from the steam. Main reasons to offline mode are: lost game has surplus 1 DRM, which create said object inadequate. Secondly Valve desires additional profits. Thirdly Piracy is wrong and I think the steam Make online only DRM for Steam works. Now I need to what you people thing on this offline mode removing.

#2
15-09-2011
RyanInt
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
Does not even know what is supposed to mean, is the multiple of DRM useless, that offline mode is useless and a lot of games with nothing but vapor "DRM". The success of any valve that is based on EA and Ubisoft out of the all-encompassing DRM that hurts anyone, but customers. Pirates do not play your pirated games through Steam; in fact, almost the only things that people play in the steam games are pirated. What we are asking is to add a layer of DRM annoying for all users of steam, of which almost 100%, but not play pirated games on Steam. A measure like this do more than promote piracy "can not keep your computer on the Internet all the time, and so badly, I think we're just going to have to download the games for free instead of paying for them"

#3
15-09-2011
AZUL
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
Some games utilize more than one DRM system. Does not make sense to use offline mode if the games that use more of a DRM system as Assassins Creed 2 is still your home. Valve titles only remain piracy. This has to be delayed as long as possible. CEG protections like doing nothing, because most likely the cracking groups with automated tools to handle these things. Just as the steam emulation API. Using a method such as Ubisoft, although extra labor will sluggish downward the cracking procedure. Business profits are more important than peace of mind for end users.

#4
15-09-2011
Wenro
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
It depends on what kind of DRM. I understand that somehow there has to be - and already does through Steam. Always online-DRM not only to be ridiculed, but completely eliminated. Vapor stands out from the big greedy companies for not doing anything so arrogant. Sure, as a company that wants to make a profit. And they do. Why the hell are the risk that many people go on a war footing and only run the Pirates even more of your games, or simply refuse to buy from them, so that's what you need to be online to all games on Steam? That would be idiotic. Moreover, as we all know, always online DRM gets cracked in the end anyway. I would not let anyone working steam piracy titles, if they really want.

#5
15-09-2011
Common
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
I would rather see them have a lower number of sales instead of spending epic always online with DRM. I spend a lot of money every year in this business, but if I can get a game in another "platform" cheaper, only for the reason that they stand out from others when it comes to things like this. If they start to go along the route of having this kind of thing that will mainly affect paying customers, then yes it will end my loyalty. I am just a user, but I know there are many, many more with the same mentality.

#6
15-09-2011
desilva
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
Pirates will still get their games, and the worst is that now people want to use less steam. You could do a pirated game out a week later than it would have, but people who could have bought the game to play in the steam may prefer that the pirates, so they can play while traveling or while they do not 't have Internet admission. The steam is good specifically because it makes it easier to access the games. Offline Mode is an integral part of it. A company like steam depends on its users with peace of mind. As soon as people think Steam is a DRM machine, they will stop using it. Competitor latest steam, the origin, is addressing these issues exactly the same, and for my part I can say if the source is online only, I will not be playing BF3. The central point here is that if Steam will not let you play your games whenever and wherever you want, you stop using steam. And for many people, that means you're going to start hacking.

#7
15-09-2011
Tionontati
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
I also think the offline mode should be eliminated, just because it's a silly thing in the first place to the need for a separate mode. If you ask me, steam should launch and present you with your library to connect to the background vapor in the background, and if that's not just the message "No connection", as it does at the moment if your connection Internet is broken.

#8
15-09-2011
MacIntel
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
I think we should do the opposite of what you are asking, I think once the game has been purchased and activated, should not have to be online to play. I arrived home a few times to get ****ed internet ether vapor or be ****ed by not being able to use any of my games like offline mode only works if you set before disconnecting. If steam gets into a mode I would always be online to use steam and I bought allot of games from steam. and I am sorry someone hacked something they did, but it's partly his fault that the pirates would not then make your own DRM always online, by decreasing the frequency of a cracked game will not help sell more games as pirates will only wait until it cracks. Always online DRM hurts anyone but legitimate users who have purchased the game does nothing prey to pirates.

#9
16-09-2011
Tionontati
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Re: Need to remove offline mode from steam
Offline Mode is an extremely useful tool. For example, my Internet went out literally, just as he was releasing steam to play Portal 2, which I got for my birthday. Fortunately, the offline mode worked very well on my Linux box. My Internet became after a while, so I was very happy to have available offline.