...and I can still play all of my games. It's an offline pc for most of the time, unplugged from the internet. Whenever I start up Steam on this computer, it asks for my password. I type in any random password I want (as it will not matter when offline), and after it fails to verify the password through Steam servers due to the obvious lack of internet connection, it tells me if I want to "start in offline mode." And ask I do. Offline mode gives you full access to your games and simply lacks connection to Steam's service. But very occasionally, I connect this PC to the internet, and this eventually triggers Steam to want to go online and triggers it to ask for the password again (since the one I entered earlier was completely bogus), and so I enter another bogus password and get a message, "sorry! Try again! Did you forget your password?" So meh, I hit cancel on the login, and Steam exits out. After my PC is disconnected from the internet again, I just start up Steam in offline mode and continue playing like nothing happened.
Steam is very laxed about this because no one can stand to have a PC not connected to the internet or because developers don't care to acknowledge the PC platform as their money-making machine for software, I guess. Which also may be why developers don't mind that Steam deals massively discount the prices of their games. I'm not exactly sure why honestly. But whatever the reason, the DRM is extremely user-friendly. You can't ask for anything better in the digital realm. But I have seen people compare Steam to the Xbox One's original DRM policy. And when they make this comparison, I wonder to myself what Nazi spy did they hire to get this extremely inaccurate information. I would think anyone who ever knew what Steam is would understand just how user-friendly it is as a digital platform. I just wanted to correct this misinformation. Heck, to put it in even more perspective, I even have a PC that has been playing in offline mode since even before Windows 8 released. I hope this was somewhat informative of the uniqueness of the Steam platform for people who weren't aware of it.
Steam is very laxed about this because no one can stand to have a PC not connected to the internet or because developers don't care to acknowledge the PC platform as their money-making machine for software, I guess. Which also may be why developers don't mind that Steam deals massively discount the prices of their games. I'm not exactly sure why honestly. But whatever the reason, the DRM is extremely user-friendly. You can't ask for anything better in the digital realm. But I have seen people compare Steam to the Xbox One's original DRM policy. And when they make this comparison, I wonder to myself what Nazi spy did they hire to get this extremely inaccurate information. I would think anyone who ever knew what Steam is would understand just how user-friendly it is as a digital platform. I just wanted to correct this misinformation. Heck, to put it in even more perspective, I even have a PC that has been playing in offline mode since even before Windows 8 released. I hope this was somewhat informative of the uniqueness of the Steam platform for people who weren't aware of it.
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