Will COD be a 'no-cd' start up

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

hah really? HP with its all simplicity and "easy to use/find room" vs st..t..t..eeaaaam....g...gg....gaaamm...eeerzzz

Not really sure what you mean there. Steam lobby: invite friends, see lists of servers, play game (not necessarily in that order). Use built in voice chat.

Originally Posted by tintifaxl

I don't want to switch Steam to offline mode, because I do play online games with Steam, too. But when my ISP decides to crap out during my gaming time, I want to fly offline single player campaigns or missions.

If you lose network connection mid game Steam doesn't kick you out of the game. If you are on a MP server it will tell you that you've lost connection and drop you to the main menu. You would then just choose SP. If you quit out of the game you will have to go through the trouble of closing Steam, starting it back up, and when it says no network could be found you click the big button that says "Start Steam in Offline mode," play game.

Edit: I'm beginning to suspect a lot of the naysayers haven't used Steam much, or in about a half decade. It certainly had a lot of issues back about 5 or 6 years ago, but those issues have mostly been corrected.