smashed my copy of E:TW with a two pound beater

[Otto Khan]

why, well because i'm so fed up with steam and not being able to play without an internet connection. i see no sense in this whatsoever. i BOUGHT the game full of excitement, but i am very sadly dissappointed with it, to think that i bought a game for 60 hard earned dollars and cannot even play it on MY laptop at a friends house because of F@#$%%G STEAM! did i miss some disclaimer when i bought this telling me i was only renting it? that one has to be online at all times lest STEAM think i'm some bootlegging terrorist? or am i not to be trusted to update my OWN game, and need to have net nannying steam do it for me? i don't know and i don't care anymore, and as long as CA is partnering with steam i will refuse to "rent" anymore games from them, and will tell everyone i speak to about it not to either.




i have loved everything about this series since i started playing it in 2001, however i will not be playing this E:TW ever again.

[Beskar]

Click on Steam to play it offline.

It is really that easy.

[Graphic]

Click on Steam to play it offline.

It is really that easy.

Or he could just click on Empire.exe in steamapps\common\empire total war\

This thread is the definition of epic fail.

[A Very Super Market]

No no, that doesn't actually work.

[Skott]

If your pc/laptop isnt hooked up to the internet you should get a little popup saying it cant connect and asks if you want to play in offline mode. At least mine always does when I take my SFF pc on the road. I click on the offline promp and then fire up the game. You only need STEAM for the patches/updates for the game or to play MP.

[Megas Methuselah]

Crazy kid.

[Graphic]

No no, that doesn't actually work.

I've done it.

*edit*

But it didn't work when I just tried it. Hmm, maybe they changed something in one of the patches.

[Tsavong]

Steam seems batter and more reliable than SecuROM my sister got Spore for Christmas and we had no end of trouble to get it to work in the end we phoned the customer support to get it to work after there online support failed. Where as Steam and Empire just well worked.

[Otto Khan]

Click on Steam to play it offline.

It is really that easy.

i clicked play offline. nothing happened. ejected the disk tried again nothing. tried clicking everything that i could and still couldn't play.



you honestly think i'm that damn dumb? i have anger issues, not intelligence issues.


anything more than inserting the game disk and clicking play, is just damned silly.

[Husar]

You don't need to have the disk in the drive to play, at all.

Haven't tried offline mode yet myself so no idea how exactly that works.

[Forward Observer]

i clicked play offline. nothing happened. ejected the disk tried again nothing. tried clicking everything that i could and still couldn't play.



you honestly think i'm that damn dumb? i have anger issues, not intelligence issues.


anything more than inserting the game disk and clicking play, is just damned silly.

Putting the disk in to play when you don't have to seems a bit silly to me unless you have a different version of the game than everybody else because to repeat what almost everybody has posted over and over:

You do not need the disk to start the game.

The executable in written to your harddrive. There is a start command on the disk, but other than the first time you loaded the game I can't imagine wasting the time to put the disk in just to use it's start command.

If you do not have a desktop icon then you should be able to start the game from your programs list.

If your settings on your Steam account are correct, you should get a message that your computer cannot connect to Steam and ask you if you want to play in off line mode.

If you get any other message such as you can't play in offline mode then there is another possibility, but you will have to connect to Steam at least once to fix it.

On the account tab of the settings menu on your Steam account there is a check box that
says "Don't save account credentials on this computer"

This is recommended when using a public computer--however if you have this box checked you cannot play off line. The message you get when you try to start the game will only tell you that you are not connected and thus cannot play.

If the game simply will not start then you may have to repair the problem by re-installing the game.

Cheers

[Devastatin Dave]

you honestly think i'm that damn dumb? i have anger issues, not intelligence issues.

I wouldn't go as far as saying your dumb, or you have anger issues, or that you are not intelligent...

But never go full retard.

[miotas]

open steam while online then click

"file" > "go offline" > "restart in offline mode"

It really is that simple, perhaps others should have taken the time to explain this rather than calling Otto Khan an idiot but bashing steam and destroying the disc was rather silly

[antisocialmunky]

Well you have to admit that its foolish on his part to not take the time to figure a problem out. Its also very ironic that he can't actually unown the game so he didn't actually get rid of it. :)

[AussieGiant]

I wouldn't go as far as saying your dumb, or you have anger issues, or that you are not intelligent...

But never go full retard.

LMAO!!!

[A Very Super Market]

You're very, very, smart to have not simply have used offline mode beforehand. You can re-install it again if you want to, but whatever.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

smashed my copy of E:TW with a two pound beater

Pics, YouTube, or it didn't happen.

[AussieGiant]

Pics, YouTube, or it didn't happen.

LMAO...again!!