Few people want to have to actualy deal with the questions about how right/wrong or intrusive it is. The minority of people it does effect are basically told to deal with it or get with more modern tech that is capable of always on connections. For many they will never know the difference (untill the day the DRM fails). We live in an age where it is increasingly common for the average user to be ok with large amounts of intrusion into their lives by outside companies, and in the PC game world this is incresingly being targeted by the publishers who know that *most* people wont know or care about an always on DRM being present and requiring internet even for single palyer. Sadly, support for things like offline functionality is going the way of the DoDo, and is on deaths doorstep. Proceed at own risk, and with caution, ESPECIALLY for VAC secured titles such as Portal. Steam/Valve as a company however, might frown on you attempting to access the sofware you have already purchased in ways that they dont deem 'acceptable' in their TOS. If you have a legal copy of the software in question there is nothing that legally dictates how you acess it. It falls into the same legality as copywrite-protected game ROMS used with emulators. As far as I am aware, and concerned, so long as you legally own a license to the games in question there is nothign illegal about running a cracked version. If you dont plan to update the games themselves you can likely use some tethered cellular connection to get Steam online and authenticated, you should then be able to re-set it to offline mode and go from there.Ģ) If internet is not an option, period, you will likely have to get a crack for the games. The Steam Offline Mode requires being re-logged in and validated on a regular basis (something like once every 30 days or so), you cant just set it offline and be good, it will eventualy fail and require re-authentication. Personaly, if I were in your shoes I would see two options:ġ) Unfortunantly to get your games working you WILL need internet.

So let me get this straight, because of the bad behaviour of others, legitimate paying players must be punished with over-restrictive DRM for single player titles?.Īnd thus, many will simply pirate the titles after DRM has ben broken. The only argument against that is 'We have to protect our content!!!' Simple fact is that any game not multiplayer *should* be fully capable of being installed and played without internet. And here we have one of the main reasons many people still pirate games.Īs someone who still had a residence with dial-up only or cellular access untill ~2015 I can feel your pain.

Pirated portal 2 no steam