words can't be quoted because out of habit Saint still uses IE.
Bunch of stuff Saint said, he also uses IE. XD
Your off on a quite bit there, unless im not fully educated on my problem.
1. Dial-up = 25kbs, not 2mbs. Concidering theres 1000 k in a m(pretty sure), it will take me 250x longer than most people. Hour update for you? Well, its going to take me 10 days.
2. Offline Mode = Good?. Not if you want to actually PLAY the games when you get them. As I said before, you cant -actually- play the games till their updated. It wont let you, not at all. The team at Steam didnt even put a "I want my games NEVER updated", they instead put a "You can play your games offline, only when they are fully updated at the moment you put Steam in offline mode". Want to play a new game with Steam, well you have to put Steam in online mode again, and update all your games all over again. Yay.
3. Play the game without Steam. You cant play the game without Steam. I have yet to find a way, and the only option seems to hack into the stuffs, but I dont even know how to do that. You uninstall Steam after installing the game, it wont start. You cant start the game without it being updated either, because it first updates before the game even starts running. Offline mode? Oh yah, you cant put that on till its updated.
4. Buy Retail. All the games I buy are retail. They force you to install Steam. Its not like its optional or anything.
Yes, I know I'm going way off topic here, but its really irratating how they cant put simple features in to please the minorities. Im also posting this ramble to see if someone knows a way to play a game without Steam. So far, my only solution is to unhook my tower, go to work, update, than put it in offline mode, as I have said before.
"Edit" Also, all my favorate game series are becoming intergrated into Steam. Supreme Commander 2, Empire: Total War, Ect. So not buying Steam games would make me reletively unhappy. =/