Quote Originally Posted by Avatar View Post
I get that always-on internet isn't.. erm.. always on, but what I'm getting at is that we've accepted it in other formats/forms. If you don't explicitly log Steam out to offline mode and the internet dies, guess what? You're screwed out of your Steam library until you're online again.. But we've become accustomed to this and tolerate it. And tether our phones for emergencies.

I'm not trying to say that this is a brilliant idea, just that maybe it's not worth boycotting the console over.
I've been able to log into Steam's offline mode numerous times when my internet was unavailable for long stretches of time without logging off explicitly to offline mode.

Quote Originally Posted by Gir View Post
Yeah, I agree, Its not the end of the world. At worse it will be a little inconvenient if your internet is down for a few days. guess I will just play pc games or go outside. :P As you said, steam, pretty shit without the internet yet we still get by.
See, the problem is, our complacence has made this the acceptable norm when it shouldn't be.

An excerpt from a report about Sony's consideration of Always-on:
“Did we consider it? No, we didn’t consider it," said Yoshida. "The main reason being that many countries don’t have robust Internet connections. It makes sense for people to have Internet connections to play online games, but for offline games there are many countries that we saw [that] do not really have robust Internet.”
This is just as true for people (regardless of their country's internet capabilities) and not just countries.