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Steam and offline gaming
Dorrit about 20 hours ago
Imagine things go south internationally -like thousands of missiles flying around- and you're in a relatively safe corner of the world but with no internet connection.
Could you, for sure, access your Steam library and forget the horrors, or some last decision at Valve could cut you from the TBs of games in your hard drives?
This is a purely technical question, lets not count the missiles.
damarrin about 10 hours ago
While Steam will happily run offline, some things may happen:

- the game may refuse to start without internet
- Steam may after a while decide to reauthenticate and will refuse to run stuff

With no internet, you won’t be able to download any cracks, so either you should start downloading them now just in case, or get to brushing up your programming skills so you can write your own. I recommend the latter.
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