Nice going Steam...

[SammiYin]

Short story, my router / connection is a heap of shit which means connecting to the internet can be a very rare thing indeed. Which makes playing PC games on Steam a bloody nightmare.
Not to worry, Steam has a helpful offline mode that let's you play games without being connected to the internet!
Does it? Because 9 times out of 10 I click the 'Start in offline mode' a bubble comes up smugly saying
"Could not connect to steam network, this could be due to a problem with your internet etc. etc."
I DON'T FUCKING WANT TO GO ON STEAM NETWORK BECAUSE I'M NOT EVEN ONLINE! Why does it insist on taking me to fucking Steam network when I have specifically instructed it NOT to bother!?!

Garhghh

Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated before I shoot up a school.

 

[blitz609]

I think this might help you a bit.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3160-AGCB-2555

Also I would say you should call your IP and demand they send someone out to look at your connection, you shouldn't be paying for something that you're not getting.

 

[SammiYin]

I need to keep all of my installed games updated? -.- That sucks

Thanks though guys, I'll give it a go

 

[Aeshi]

I know what you mean. MY copy has just flat-out gone "Fuck you I'm just gonna repeatedly say that I can't connect to the Steam Servers."