Quote Originally Posted by Monk View Post
If steam fails to find an active internet connection after a few minutes it will ask you if you'd like to enable offline instead. That is, when it's feeling like it. As much as I like steam and use it daily, it is incredibly finicky about when it will let you go offline
Oh yes. Offline mode is my second biggest bugbear with steam now they've fixed a few others. The first being forced integration of owned DLC and the latest patch at all times.

The steam cloud is a bit of a menace too. "Sorry cloud's not available for reasons we won't bother to explain. Your games may or may not be missing stuff. Playing now might mess up your files if you do have any on the cloud. Wanna play anyway?" I don't think I have anything on the cloud, but with steam I never feel certain of anything.