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PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Not sure if this is still the case, but with Steam it used to be that if you didn't put the client into "offline mode" ahead of time the client wouldn't open, let alone allow you to launch a game once the connection was lost.

I hope they took care of that by now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least in 2013 when I started using Steam more seriously if your connection dropped it would prompt you asking if you wanted to switch to offline mode. And I know this because I had Steam on a laptop that I carried in my bag hibernating and I didn't had internet in some places I went to. So that has been fixed for over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So that has been fixed for over a decade.

they fixed that, but if you are connected to WiFi that blocks steam it will refuse to launch your games even after you disconnect from the WiFi. I think this is to prevent piracy I guess??

I needed a software that I bought on steam for schoolwork and I couldn't use it because steam was having a panic attack over my schools wifi. Inst of preventing piracy I went and pirated the software to not have that issue LOL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pretty sure they did a while ago

Especially with the steam deck, you're not going to have Internet available everywhere