How does one play in offline mode?

I really hope the pricing mistake doesn't hurt Katauri and 1C, since it was Valves fault. I'd feel really bad about buying it for 10 bucks if it did.

Ahhhh..

Now it's no longer even playable offline, SUCKS

Wow, I cannot even play Armored princess anymore neither. WTF? sucks how they linked these 2 games together.

Was it 6-8 hours of play, Mandea? My understanding that Defender of the Crown was this length, but with randomised monsters so that there is a high level of replayability. Isn't there some kind of spawning tower or something? I'd love to here a short run down of what the Defender of the Crown mini campaign consists of.

Also, anyone play Champion of the Arena before they got shut out? I've got high hopes for this one as well. Basically I am hoping that these two short campaigns will have a high level of replayability and allow advanced players to experiment with and finetune new strategies.

No, it was about 1 hour (on normal), 6-7 fights.

I also managed to finish champion of the arena. Very hard in the beginning (so much to buy, so few money) and very easy in the end (normal difficulty) but has a much replay value.

I didn't get to be in all the guilds (you can't) and you also have contracts which get you more money and experience. Neither champion of the arena took me 6-8 hourse (3-4 maybe 8 bosses and 8 contracts or something like that) but it is very interesting.
And there are many companions some very expensive but also unique.

Okay. Hopefully it will be more of a challenge on Impossible. I would love for one or both of these mini campaigns to actually provide a decent challenge on Impossible so that I don't have to impose extra limitations on myself (like no losses) to keep it interesting.

Steam does everything with updates which it does through internet obviously... so if i stay offline it cannot update so as long as i stay offline they cant prevent me from playing the game... so yes i am still playing the game, it works offline if you didnt let it update anything (i logged out immediately after seeing the first message about this). About "champion of the arena" mode in my opinion its really good... i really like the guild system and the fact that you can fight all bosses one at a time... the game is atleast at first very hard so i used cheats to get money (yes i'm a noob). Sometimes you get really good selection of troops from shops (by this i mean mainly summoner type of units as a non-mage class because u really need their summoning abilities) but sometimes you get so bad that it's pretty much impossible to beat the turtle... after beating the turtle you gain access to some guilds though so after somehow beating him your life gets a little easier... after that there's also an option to choose the boss you want to fight (you can roam around and go to the guilds u want etc. you fight the boss when u think you're ready)... the bosses are listed in order with their "level" (difficulty) or something...

and to Zhuangzi: Trust me Champion Of The Arena without losses is going to be really pain in the ass lol

the nasty part is that you can't use rage. it is normal in boss fights, but not in contracts fights. but the hero still has rage skill, so don't put points into those, they're useless.

Doesn't rage has other properties too other than casting spells by pet dragon? Like some effect on critical chance or attack or something?