You can play offline in steam, and with some luck, stardock will even allow you to play without launching steam at all post release.

Since i wasn't 100% sure, i restarted steam in offline mode and i could launch galciv2 ultimate, galciv3, sins rebellion and legendary heroes just fine. I didn't bother trying with steam closed you can do that yourself if it's important.

X3 had a non steam executable. Fyi

But isn't offline mode, offline mode!?!?! You can't get attacked by malware while off online, you just see the starting account tab then it asks would you like offline mode when no connection is found. Is this to unreasonable?

and that was really bad apology for whatever it is you did Sashgala, I actually thought this was genuine. Instead you did a 180° at the end because you couldn't help yourself.

DARCA

I guess that what we would all like to see is some kind of offline fallback.  Like for example, GC2 - if you've registered it, you're pretty much sorted as far as offline playing is concerned.

Jack I believe when you apologize for something you don't throw in the issue in question in at the end and totally contradict and ultimately detract from your apology, its wrong and actually immoral.

In respect to your opinion I have edited my post, leaving out analogies I had previously cherished creating without compromising expression.

DARCA.

On the topic of Steam and your games. That's why you have them registered with us and that's why we've had registration in the games. When you've registered it with us, should Steam ever fail, we will still be here and will be able to get you your games.

I really can't see an issue I'm happy to buy almost all my games through steam and have played most of them offline from time to time when my connection is down include LH:FE and others.

The only games that really annoy me are those you can't play at all with no connection even though they are single player.