velvet bliss wrote:Steam has an offline mode so you can even play games in your library that don't require you to be online...
Yep, but first you have to activate those games when online. Besides, the Steam's 'offline-mode' won't work infinitely with some games and there are games which don't support 'offline-mode' at all.
Having to be online to play an offline mode is so retarded
You can repeat this as many times as you want... but that will not change anything.

That's just how life works. You can't eat a cookie and have a cookie. That would be perfect, yeah... but you want to have next-gen graphics, you want to have all features from the console version, you want online gameplay to work flawlessly, you want to be able to mod the hell out of the game, you want Visual Concepts to patch the game ASAP, you want their servers to be super stable, you want great AI, you want perfect animations, you want superb gameplay and at the same time you're not letting them secure the game and secure their cost effectiveness. That's just unreasonable and unrealistic.