Why 1C like Steam

[TheGrunch]

@Kikuchiyo: It's fine, there does seem to be a lot of hysteria around the issue, particularly the issue of people being unaware of the offline mode, which is one I remember going as far back as HL2, Valve just don't seem to like telling people about it, and neither do publishers. To be fair I haven't used Steam for a long time in gaming terms (not since Empire: Total War was released), but I did get HL2 on release day and I do remember a lot of hiccups and issues. I mean, even as recently as E:TW if I'm on my friends' computer and I wanted to switch accounts I often found the logout button very unreliable, often it just closed Steam and didn't bring back the login prompt, so I'd have to open it and click logout until it finally decided not to close itself instead of offering me the login screen. As useful as it is it's still one of the more buggy pieces of software that I've dealt with on a regular basis.

EDIT: As for the game updating issue, I don't understand that either...why once you've allowed it to begin downloading an update does that prevent you from playing the game on single-player? Does it still do that? Why would that ever have been a feature? I don't understand how it could be so hard to implement a check as to whether the player is playing the game before it begins the actual extraction of the update. It's just weird that Steam as a platform always seemed to be unable to separate the downloading and installation of updates for the convenience of the user.