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Originally Posted by amorak
It's going to take more than a few days after release for this to be out on the scene.
The way the new steam protection works is that the game, randomly, contacts the steam server to get required parts of the game.
In essence, the game on your HDD is missing small, critical portions, that the game randomly requests from the steam server in an effort to combat piracy.
It's taking up to a month after commercial release for the scene to get a game out, now (purely for back purposes...What happens if steam goes bankrupt?! I don't want to lose what I bought).
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Are you sure about that? My understanding is that Steam doesn't load the entirely of the content until release day, effectively stopping all pre-release piracy, but after that the content is completely loaded. If it's missing portions, even at random, offline mode wouldn't work and people would be wailing and gnashing their teeth.