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richardhutnik said:
Machiavellian said:
I am just wondering if Always online is really seen that bad because people seem to not care that Steam is pretty much this way. The new steambox is rumored to be exactly this way but people seem really excited about the prospect of that console device.

Hell, you have Blizzard selling millions of their games that cannot be played unless your PC is hooked to the internet but that has not stop those games from selling. Is everyone really all that against online only for their next console.

You can run Steam offline actually.  There is a connect once regarding things.  But, unlike what is being said with the next Microsoft console, if you lose connections after a few minutes of play, the program will shut down, and try to reconnect.

I stand corrected on Steam.  I just checked out the offline mode and see there is a process in place.  I do not use steam alot so the last time I tried was when I did not have an internet conenction and attempted to load the orange box on my PC and it would not let me play the game because I did not connect to steam.