Steam and PinballFX2

[BrenW]

I did notice the some guys are using pinballfx2 tables on their cabinets, that is cool, and I assume their cabinet is not connected to the internet.

So, I have a problem with Steam. Why is it that every time you turn on your computer, Steam wants to verify your account with them, and before you can start pinballfx2 and play a table that you paid for, you have to log in to your account. Now, you can log in and tell Steam to run offline, to play your table but is that what we have to live with to play on our cabinet.

I can’t find where or how to turn off this very annoying and intrusive practice that Steam is doing.

Can someone help explain why they do this or a way to get around this issue?

Thanks

[Gilrock]

I have my cabinet connected to the internet. I just setup PinballFX2 yesterday on the cabinet to try it out. I was like you....I got turned off from Steam several years ago because I lived in a location with a spotting internet connection over a crappy dial up line and there were days where I couldn't play Half-Life 2 I had bought in the store because my phone line was acting up. It caused me to swore to never use Steam again. But I wanted to try this pinball game so I'm giving it a shot. I think the reason you must connect is because the beauty of using Steam is you can goto any one of your computers and run Steam and have it setup your games you've bought through them. The downside is they must verify that you aren't running the games from multiple locations/computers. Otherwise some teenager and six of his friends could all install a game using the same account and just stay disconnected from the internet to play. In some ways its nice how it saves where you are in a game online but with Pinball FX2 it looks like a pain if trying to play the game on a desktop and a cabinet from the same account. I played my cabinet last night with the 270 orientation then logged into my desktop this morning and played and it rotated my playfield for this computer because it remembered the settings from the other computer. Some settings really need to be PC specific. Anyways that's my take on it.

Gil