Confirmed, if you are banned from xbl you lose all your games

[sth88]

Heavenly_King said:

sth88 said:

Xen said:

CDiablo said:
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Steam has physical discs you can purchase, and once they are put in the PC they are required to be linked to your Steam account.  If you are banned on Steam, you lose access to that game, even though you still have the disc and all the game data is stored on that disc.  So no, it's not different.

If you dont connect online, and have your disk; you can still play your game with steam (well without steam, since you are not online).

Do you have a link to prove that?  As I've been searching around the web, I've found people explaining the exact opposite; if the game requires Steam you MUST authenticate your disc through Steam; after that you have to set up "offline mode" if you want to play it offline.  And having searched for info on Steam's "offline mode" I've found people have had varying experiences as to how long they have been able to stay offline.  Some have been able to go for months, but others have been forced back online for authentification within just a couple weeks.

 

Example thread I found: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48178/do-i-have-to-use-steam-for-games-i-bought-on-disc