vindicar:

pewnypl:

No, it was better, not sure if it was a faulty crack or something, but there had to be LITERALLY no drives, even emulated (I am guessing Star Force, in case of lack of drive, allowed game to run)

And yeah, that was the biggest problem of any cd-based DRM, wearing of the disk

And I heard about that, funniest thing was when Vista came out and the driver was incompatible with the system.

Out of all DRMs I pretty much tolerate only one, Steam’s CEG. I mean, I did buy the game online, so it makes sense I need to be online to play it. Especially since you have ability to tur steam in offline mode and continue playing. Then we have Ubisoft’s uplay, I have no idea how it is ow, but when AC2 came out you had to be connected all the time to the internet, when for any reason connection died the game was pausing and you couldn’t even save it (since saves were stored remotely).

But can you switch the Steam to offline mode when their servers are down?

I know that you can actually turn steam in offline mode. I was able to do so once (after reinstalling windows I can’t, dunno why). When Steam recognised I don’t have connection it asked me to launch in offline mode (still does, but gives me a natwork error upon doing so) and then allowed me to play games I had installed. I don’t know if the fact I can’t do so now is because you have to enter offline mode at least once when online (so it will cache it) or if something changed with steam.

But either way, I have yet to see Steam’s logon server down. True, shop or community sometimes die (*cough*summer/wintersales*cough*) but never in this period I had trouble to log in.