My cheevos. Noooooooooo!

On an aside note: I was actually playing HL2 a few days ago and noticed that I got cheevos up until a point in the game and then it stopped logging them(including ones I knew i'd get at some points. A bug maybe?

Only disc storage is the fail proof way of game owning!

Death to digital downloads!

[Bad disc error]

Nooooooo!!! You win internet...this time.

BIG Steam tip

During sales on steam, big ones like the Holiday sales I find that if you are going to make a purchase never use the downloaded steam interface. Instead use your webbrowser and log into steam through the net and make your purchases there. I find that, for some reason, the steam downloaded interface gets overloaded during big sales and as such a lot of payment problems crop up (typically it can't authenticate your payment).

This is especially the case nearer the end of a sale day just before all the deals change.

My steam is online now...

I'm going to look a bit silly here, but I've just made a tit of myself in Mafia 9 so its no worries.....

How do I put Steam into offline mode??

I would guess there are at least 100 people on forums right now cussing and legitimately upset about not getting their cheevos today.

Thanks for the tip about offline mode. I knew something must be up with Steam this morning when it took several minutes to launch Geneforge 1, a game which obviously has no online features.

This also works wonders for browsing the games and looking through the catalog. I'm fond of opening any link I see of an interesting game on a new tab and keep on browsing. I haven't been able to do that on the app and it's a bit of a hassle if you want to compare one game with another and such or move back and forth between game pages.

Top left corner of Steam is the Steam menu button - click it and its the second option down.

Well I can't get steam to go into offline mode so I can't play anything. What I most want to play is MW3 which I wouldn't be able to play anyway.

As for "this thread is flamebait"- well, in a way, but seeing as we are on gog, not steam, and I pointed out in my flaming of steam that this means gog.com is good, then it's a totally different kind of thread to the thread it would be if I were just on steam's forums moaning about the downtime (which I also am, but beside the point...)

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OK you don't like MW3. Noted. Very clever. Next time, don't bother.

Same here, i only use Steam in offline mode. The last thing i want is a 10Gb game update. I always keep at least one downloaded game from Steam, so i can play whenever i want whether they are down or not.

Have you had your cheevos to-day?
I wonder if it was a Steam is awesome !1!!11 thread if you'd be saying the same thing. Just an observation.