Buying from steam question

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#1 darkfox101
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Can you play offline if you buy a game like CoD4 form them..
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#2 Rylsadar
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Forget it.
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#3 kyrieee
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yeah you can but you need to go online at least once first
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#4 darkfox101
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yeah you can but you need to go online at least once firstkyrieee
So once I go online once, the rest of the time EVEN with an internet connection I can just play it without running steam and straight to SP?
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#5 nutcrackr
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no you have to run steam no matter what, it launches from it, if you are already online whats the problem. steam will work just fine
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#6 thanatose
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If you are offline steam will just prompt you with an option to play offline.
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#7 darkfox101
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One more question :)! what if I want it on a disc? Will they let me burn it to a disc??
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#8 thanatose
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No, they only offer it through digital download.
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#9 rodrolco
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No, you cant go offline mode, I have the orange box which I downloaded from a friend's house cause I'm waiting for my new internet line. But when I tried to play it, it ask me want to go offline mode, and I said yes. But after that an error message apears telling me no steam server found. So its offline mode means "get into the inetrnet, join steam and then go offline again" which is kinda stupid.
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#10 darkfox101
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are you sure u didnt go offline with an online game? I mean if you go online with TF2 it won't find any servers because your not online..? Unless it said this with halflife2 SP or Portal SP??
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#11 WARxSnake
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Can you play offline if you buy a game like CoD4 form them..darkfox101

yes, you need to be online on your first run though

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#12 darewind
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yes you can backup your steam games.they allow you to backup your purchases.
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#13 SerOlmy
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One more question :)! what if I want it on a disc? Will they let me burn it to a disc??darkfox101

Yes, there is an option to backup all the important files to disk. You will probably need at least a single-layer DVD burner though.

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#14 harakiri25
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don't confuse source engine games and other games on steam. pretty much all source games i tried and half life 1 require steam in online mode. games by other developers like titan quest, sam & max and most likely cod4 don't require you to be online

hope this helps