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DPsx7 posted...

I think we've confirmed Steam users aren't that knowledgeable.

Oh? By all means, please indicate (using direct quotes) where we've confirmed this. Where I'm standing, the only ignorance confirmed here has been yours.

DPsx7 posted...

They would literally need to come here and take the disc. That's the only way. An offline console certainly wouldn't know the difference.

These days, most new games require day one patches to work anyway, even when purchased physically. You're going to be very hard-pressed to keep your console offline forever, and once it's online, it wouldn't take long at all to render it unable to read your copy. Furthermore, if you're issued a legal order to stop using the license, continuing to use it would open you up to lawsuits regardless of whether or not they can actually deactivate your game.

Of course, this is all entirely academic anyway. You'd be hard-pressed to find an example of Valve or any other digital distributor taking away people's digital games arbitrarily (as in, not in response to flagrant license violations that very rightfully warrant revocation), so worrying this much about such a hypothetical situation is just baseless paranoia.

DPsx7 posted...

Steam doesn't care enough about you to remove it. I know when I had it the crap phoned home every so often. A current user said it still does.

Further research on the matter is telling me that I was mistaken, and any limits on how long offline mode can be sustained are enforced on a game-by-game basis. You can safely discount what I said on the matter; offline mode lasts indefinitely.
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