Will COD be a 'no-cd' start up

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by tintifaxl

Edit: But I do have a network available, albeit without internet, so maybe that's the reason for the behavior experienced by me?

Yes it is referring to your ISP's network not your local LAN. I can see how that might have caused some confusion for you. Likely you should set Steam to offline mode if you have no internet connection. I can't say I know how NTW handles LAN games.