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Someone on a different thread said that Steam developed a DRM rep due to having an online requirement that has since been removed.

I can't verify this at the moment, but no one has corrected the other poster yet.

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Steam has (and has had for a while) an offline mode, but it doesn't work reliably for some. If you go through the release notes for the Steam client over the past few years, you can see instances of Valve "fixing" offline mode.

You also have to be online to download, install and launch a game for the first time.

There are some games that require you to be online, but that's not universal enough to make it Steam's fault. Similarly, the notion that you have to be online to download from the Internet seems to... uh.. make sense.

That's a lot different from the DRM claim, I think.

those statements were not about specific games, they were about steam itself, offline mode is very broken for many people.

I had problems in the past but it seems to work correctly now. Has someone a close example of problems with it?

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