It's also an issue for games like RDR2 and GTA. Games that should be a perfect fit end up gimped because of the Wifi/verification requirement on the terrible Cockstar launcher.
I also think the game was cracked prior to the Steam release.
Corporativist desire to control
Steam Deck is just fine being offline, you could have put it in offline mode before you left for the trip to avoid that headache or at least made sure your games were up to date (which isn't difficult unlike say Switch where it only auto updates recently played games)
not when you're out and about. Steam Deck doesn't exactly have 4g/5g connectivity either....
exactly, I like to play a bit on my Deck over my lunch break at work (I made good progress in the Trails in the Sky trilogy the past few months thanks to that) but there's no public wifi available where I work (and we're not allowed to connect to the office wifi with personal devices)
I will say, the one downside to offline mode that I've found is it doesn't seem to track your playtime, so unless I know I'm going to be offline for a while I typically just leave mine in regular mode and let it be grumpy there's no network to connect to (as long as I'm not playing a game with an online connection check this doesn't seem to cause any problems)
honestly to me that's one of the most baffling design decisions Steam seems to have made
Just made a new post about this. And yeah, Steam Deck only, what the hell? There are Rog Ally users out there, and soon the Lenovo GO will be released.
