Need help finding Doug quote

[Acert93]

Doug Limbardi is quoted as saying:

"During installation the user will be prompted to authenticate the copy and create a Steam account. After that is complete, the single-player and LAN games do not require an Internet connection."

If I remember correctly there was also a pre-release quote saying that Steam would require online authentication before you played for a couple weeks (and then after the first couple weeks HL2 would allow you to go right into Offline mode) but I cannot find this quote. Thanks for helping me find this

 

[Duracell]

I also remember a quote along those lines but obviously they decided to change the way it was done and I personally think they changed it for the better. Hopefully it has stopped some of the idiots that were hoping to pirate the game

 

[Ultimape]

um, that quote still holds true... you do not need an online connection once you have the game authenticated and downlaoded all the wya..

 

[Ames]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=907939&postcount=779
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=869160&postcount=771
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=492503&postcount=594
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=941264&postcount=784

and the luckiest post of them all...

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=894375&postcount=777

beyond3d.

 

[Chris D]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=894375&postcount=777

Well this one is true...

 

[Acert93]

I know it works (offline mode). That is not my question. There is a discussion at B3D (as Shen noted ) about this. I think I remember Doug or someone from Valve saying that the first couple weeks you would need to sign on BEFORE going to offline mode, and this held true for a while.

I see no problem with it, I just thought I rememberd a specific quote where they mentioned that after release you would need to log in before going into offline mode.

I know by 5 weeks (when I lost cable in an ice storm) that going into offline mode worked. Anyhow, does anyone else remember this quote/have a reference for it?

Ps- The anti-piracy thing is true. While it may not prevent piracy 100%, it did prevent what happened to D3, Halo 2, and GTA:SA where the games were pirated before the game was even released. I remember over 50k copies of D3 were downloaded illegally before the release date. Obviously a lot of people who are anxious enough to DL a game before its release would buy it upon release if they could not pirate it. So Steam did work to a degree in this regards.

 

[Chris D]

That's apparent considering they disabled nearly 100,000 accounts and probably more besides that were using pirated versions.

 

[Yombi]

Ps- The anti-piracy thing is true. While it may not prevent piracy 100%, it did prevent what happened to D3, Halo 2, and GTA:SA where the games were pirated before the game was even released. I remember over 50k copies of D3 were downloaded illegally before the release date. Obviously a lot of people who are anxious enough to DL a game before its release would buy it upon release if they could not pirate it. So Steam did work to a degree in this regards.

Steam still does it's magic now, they've disabled hundreds of thousands of accoutns after release.