Originally posted by: C3PX
It is still the principal of the matter. I want to be able to install my games internet free. You say I can install it and then set it to offline mode so it wont ever need to access the internet again, but what if I want to uninstall it to free up disk space then sometime down the road wish to play it again. No matter what they do, they will never stop piracy and in the end they will just irritate honest users. Also what if I want to sell my game later on, is that even possible? Doesn't steam register it to me thus making the original discs about as useless as a pirated copy if I want to sell them or pass them on to somebody else? I could be wrong on that one, I am not sure how it works. Also what if I pack the game away, and come across it 20 years down the line, won't I need to remember my old user name and password if I every want to use them again? Or does it just check to make sure the discs are the originals? That would be more reasonable, but still very annoying.
It is still the principal of the matter. I want to be able to install my games internet free. You say I can install it and then set it to offline mode so it wont ever need to access the internet again, but what if I want to uninstall it to free up disk space then sometime down the road wish to play it again. No matter what they do, they will never stop piracy and in the end they will just irritate honest users. Also what if I want to sell my game later on, is that even possible? Doesn't steam register it to me thus making the original discs about as useless as a pirated copy if I want to sell them or pass them on to somebody else? I could be wrong on that one, I am not sure how it works. Also what if I pack the game away, and come across it 20 years down the line, won't I need to remember my old user name and password if I every want to use them again? Or does it just check to make sure the discs are the originals? That would be more reasonable, but still very annoying.
If you want to uninstall it, what you can do is "Backup local game content". You simply backup the game to disc, burn it to CD or DVD, then uninstall it. Later on, when you reinstall, you simple reinstall it and start playing in offline mode.
Also, you won't need to remember your username and password, you just simply don't login. As long as you're not playing a multiplayer game, you'll be fine. You'll simply be playing in offline mode.
The only thing you can't do is resell the games. Yes, they're tied to your Steam account and they haven't come up with a way to allow you to resell them. That never bothered me though since I've never resold a game in my life. Perhaps one day we'll have the ability to sell or give a game to someone else and transfer the game to them, but as of right now, that's not possible with Steam.