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Re:The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster ... by infrec on Thursday June 20, 2013 @12:05AM (#5910081)
Not entirely. For one Steam has offline mode which is certainly better than what MS was proposing.
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Re:The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster ... by DrStalker on Thursday June 20, 2013 @12:36AM (#5910177)
To be fair, Steam became popular back when offline mode was really buggy and problematical; it's a lot better today, but back then is was not uncommon for it to just forget what it was doing until you could reconnect.
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