I'm in Ohio and we lost power from that crazy storm. Thankfully we got off easy compared to a lot of other people and are very grateful for that so the following complaint I'm going to voice here is certainly a very minor quibble in the scheme of things vs people living in CO right now or all the people still without power and storm damage in this overall crazy heatwave the bulk of the USA in.
Just so everyone knows I have perspective here.
I hope everyone around here is ok that may be in any trouble areas.
So here's the quibble and subject of the thread:
When our power was restored the Internet was not so I figured I'd go ahead and fire up a game on Steam in offline mode and be on my merry way.
Guess what? Didn't work. Strangely enough, my sister's did but that didn't do me any good.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2119850
That's exactly what happened to me.
So the question is: How? Why? Is it something I could have avoided?
I can look around the Steam forums and see a number of complaints about this that go back at least two years.
At least I know I'm not alone but it sure made me pretty angry to have several thousand dollars worth of my games that I paid for unavailable to me simply because a feature that is supposed to to work...offline mode...simply didn't and there was nothing I can do about it.
Guess what kind of behavior that encourages even for people that normally might not consider going that way?
Just so everyone knows I have perspective here.
So here's the quibble and subject of the thread:
When our power was restored the Internet was not so I figured I'd go ahead and fire up a game on Steam in offline mode and be on my merry way.
Guess what? Didn't work. Strangely enough, my sister's did but that didn't do me any good.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2119850
Steam starts with a message that it's trying to update, using the old Steam GUI.
The cancel button on this update window does not work either. The window elements, on both the old GUI and the new GUI are horrible aligned as well by the way.
After it pops up with the can't connect window, I pick Offline Mode, and then it tells me it can't connect to Steam and just exits Steam.
That's exactly what happened to me.
So the question is: How? Why? Is it something I could have avoided?
I can look around the Steam forums and see a number of complaints about this that go back at least two years.
At least I know I'm not alone but it sure made me pretty angry to have several thousand dollars worth of my games that I paid for unavailable to me simply because a feature that is supposed to to work...offline mode...simply didn't and there was nothing I can do about it.
Guess what kind of behavior that encourages even for people that normally might not consider going that way?