...yeah? that's how software works. You can't use something unless its installed. (EDIT: You literally need the game files on your pc for the game to exist on your computer and run. What kind of brainlet thinks the mere act of downloading and installing a game is some form of drm?) I've yet to find a game that I can't launch without an internet connection to steam. Always online drm is also a per-game thing, not steam-wide.

If steam were down for over a month I guess there'd be problems, but that's not happening any time soon. EDIT: at the time of writing, I thought steam phoned home periodically. Apparently it doesn't. If steam gets nuked, the games you downloaded still work fine so long as they aren't written to depend on steam infrastructure.

...yeah? that's how software works. You can't use something unless its installed. I've yet to find a game that I can't launch without an internet connection to steam. Always online drm is also a per-game thing, not steam-wide.

If steam were down for over a month I guess there'd be problems, but that's not happening any time soon. EDIT: at the time of writing, I thought steam phoned home periodically. Apparently it doesn't. If steam gets nuked, the games you downloaded still work fine so long as they aren't written to depend on steam infrastructure.

...yeah? that's how software works. You can't use something unless its installed. I've yet to find a game that I can't launch without an internet connection to steam. Always online drm is also a per-game thing, not steam-wide.

If steam were down for over a month I guess there'd be problems, but that's not happening any time soon.