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Old 03-08-2011, 06:06 PM
Thee_oddball Thee_oddball is offline
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Originally Posted by maclean525 View Post
For the love of all that is holy.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE ONLINE TO PLAY A STEAM GAME. THIS IS NOT 2004. Steam is a distribution platform NOT A DRM PLATFORM.

Please quit whining about absolute bloody nonsense.
ok... ill play devils advocate

A: if they (Steam) are a distribution platform and i buy a box set what do i need them for?
B: if Solidshield is the DRM and i have a box set why do i need steam to install the game?
C: if i want to play SP and once again i have the box set that was activated (once) over the Internet using Solidshield then i really have no need for Steam....

and you do NEED tobe online to update steam and you game according to this
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...3160-agcb-2555