Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
My main gripe with Steam is this: You have to be online to enter offline mode. So if you gamed online, woke up the next morning, and found out your neighborhood lost connectivity, you're out of luck. You cannot force it into offline mode if you were online previously.

This happened to me. I am still scarred.

To this day, I put Steam in offline mode pretty much after every gaming session. Just in case. On the bright side, there seems to be no limit to how long you can leave the app like that. Or if there's a limit, I ain't found it.
Once that was true, but no longer. Not since Empire TW. Found that out while configuring it for my PC (which has never been online). When I start my PC steam looks for a connection and when it find none it asks me if I want to start in offline mode or retry connection.