Civilization V to use Steam/Steamworks

**Beskar** · 05-18-2010, 15:38

Originally Posted by drone

My

is not about the price, but the "it having to be registered on Steam is a plus" bit. I would prefer to pay more to have a game not require Steam or any other DRM mechanism.

Steam is great, you don't need disks, you can install it over different computers, and it usually comes without any DRM. Also, Steam isn't much of a DRM, it is more of a very helpful program for gamers.

**TinCow** · 05-18-2010, 16:01

Originally Posted by Beskar

Steam is great, you don't need disks, you can install it over different computers, and it usually comes without any DRM. Also, Steam isn't much of a DRM, it is more of a very helpful program for gamers.

I do like Steam and I use it for a ton of games, but I do have a major beef with it. I play games on my laptop regularly when travelling, but I often am not in an area with WiFi. If I forget to put Steam into offline mode while I'm still online, I cannot play games when in a WiFi dead zone. It's pretty ridiculous IMHO... you have to go online to go offline?

**Beskar** · 05-18-2010, 16:18

Originally Posted by TinCow

I do like Steam and I use it for a ton of games, but I do have a major beef with it. I play games on my laptop regularly when travelling, but I often am not in an area with WiFi. If I forget to put Steam into offline mode while I'm still online, I cannot play games when in a WiFi dead zone. It's pretty ridiculous IMHO... you have to go online to go offline?

It comes up with "Cannot connect to server, retry connection or start in offline mode", click "start in offline mode" and it works.

**TinCow** · 05-18-2010, 16:23

Originally Posted by Beskar

It comes up with "Cannot connect to server, retry connection or start in offline mode", click "start in offline mode" and it works.

It does? I could have sworn it just gave the cannot connect error and closed. I'll test it out later.

**Beskar** · 05-18-2010, 16:26

Weird. I got a laptop too, and it works when I done that.

The only time when it doesn't is if I have both my computer and my laptop online at same time.

**Husar** · 05-18-2010, 17:27

I also get the screen beskar mentions whenever my computer is offline, I can just start it in offline mode and play offline then.

**miotas** · 05-19-2010, 03:59

Originally Posted by TinCow

I do like Steam and I use it for a ton of games, but I do have a major beef with it. I play games on my laptop regularly when travelling, but I often am not in an area with WiFi. If I forget to put Steam into offline mode while I'm still online, I cannot play games when in a WiFi dead zone. It's pretty ridiculous IMHO... you have to go online to go offline?

I remember when I first got steam at the beginning of 2009 that it was like this, but at some point since it seems to have been updated and now it gives the "start in offline mode" message.