Trouble hearing? He says "Steam offline game MODE has to be activated before you go offline" 13:20 mins.

Unless you still think anybody sane would say "you have to download the game first" as an issue, lol.
I believe there still is an issue if steam client has an update scheduled. It may be avoided by deleting some files, I believe, but I never had such problem.

Usually, when steam can't connect, you pick "switch to offline mode" and voila.

Depends on the wording.

The idea that you have to go/be online *each time* to activate offline mode is a myth that's been going around the internet for a long time. (especially among those not fond of/using Steam). This is partly because of the poorly worded Offline mode FAQ stating it, however they only mean that you have to be online while you set it up properly.

Steam's offline mode can be activated while having no internet at all, it's been like that for years. *However*, it has some serious caveats, and yes that means it's not easy and foolproof, which is something they really need to improve.

It needs to be setup right before using it. Your user/pass needs to be saved on login, and your games have to be downloaded and run *at least once * (finishes install), and have no pending updates before being useable with offline mode.

Beyond that, there's been serious bugs with it. One has been fixed very recently and was probably the worst of them. If you shut down Windows with Steam running it cut off the shutdown process and there was a good chance it'd require to go online next time to fix itself, which meant you couldn't properly put it to offline mode.

Another common one is that offline mode won't activate properly when behind a router or when internet isn't fully gone. Closing the internet connection/router or simply pulling the cable got around that quite easily.

It needs work, and is anything but foolproof, but none of that means Steam's Offline mode requires people to go online for it to work by default. That's only true when something's wrong or it wasn't set up properly yet, which sadly happens too often. In that sense Origin's works much better.

So I'm not the only one who really wants simcity 5 but cant convince my self with the drm (and yet i bought diablo III knowing full well it had always online drm hmm)

GOG just needs some Sim City 3000 Unlimited and I'll feel much better I'm sure.

Same here. Sim City is an absolute joke though. But then EA in general is fast becoming a joke. It's hard to think of anything they're doing that's actually good now. Although I will admit that the NFS games have been getting better with the advent of Shift and the rest basically picking up where Burnout left off. But I'm not such a huge racing game fan for that to matter much to me.

But certainly not an article about the history of DRM.

While I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole it's slightly more justifiable than Ubisoft's or EA's implementations. Plus with Blizzard you do at least know they'll still be supporting the game (always online or not) a decade from now. Whereas EA have probably already set a deactivation date for the Sim City servers with no plans of patching out the DRM whatsoever.

This may sadden you, but there are no articles on youtube.

Also, showing old class DRM (wheels, small book from Alone in the dark etc) looks way better on a video.

He shows older, physical forms of DRM that would be impossible to demonstrate without a video.

What makes you so sure? Starcraft 2 community is already fading away. Neither SC2 nor Diablo 3 will be played by people for so long as Diablo 2.

And if you think Blizz will support the servers even if it will cause them huge financial losses... You may be disappointed...

They'll probably kill the DRM if the game doesn't warrant sustaining. They rely very strongly on existing community support, rather than new gamers, like a lot of other publishers. After all, it's that same community support that made them arrogant enough to implement an always online scheme in the first place. So if they severely piss people off then they'll take a much more severe hit than other publishers would.

Yes, it definitely is. /s

It's a great video. Do yourself a favour and watch it.

One of the greatest Starcraft clan disbanded (Slayers)
People still prefer playing first Starcraft game, at least in Korea.
Steven "Destiny" Bonnell , a professional Starcraft 2 player says that the game might be dead even before releasing the second expansion. Destiny says that SC2 is a wonderful professional sports game, but it scares the new players. And he already sees that the SC2 servers movement is slowing down. Drastically.

Surprisingly, the biggest threat to SC2 is.. League of legends. Much more noob friendly, to say the least, manages to keep players occupied.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/11m21k/starcraft_2_will_be_dead_before_legacy_of_the/

No he said that you have to activate offline mode while you are online which is incrorect. You only have to launch the game once in online mode and it will work in offline mode.

The difference is, that with the way he describes it. you can't play a game that you already played before if your ISP has sudden problems and your internet doesn't work because you would have to be online to activate the offline mode.


Another mistake he makes is one that almost everyone makes. He said that the DRM that causes gameplay changes like the one in settlers 3 or serious sam 3 is a special form of DRM. It is not. Actually it isn't the DRM it is the result of the DRM triggering. In most other cases this result would be that the game simply refuses to start.

I was going to write a long post... but come on, think about it, how long has WoW been dying? :) Didn't WoW pro gamers leave the scene after WotLK was introduced?