Pretty sure they did a while ago
Especially with the stream deck, you’re not going to have Internet available everywhere
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flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 week agoNot sure if this is still the case, but with Steam if you didn’t put the client into “offline mode” ahead of time the client wouldn’t open, let alone launch a game once the connection was lost.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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