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[Eagle of Fire]

While it is true, you still need to be online to be able to get the games. To download them, which take time. That was the point and I think you yourself speak for it when you say that you play offline when your net connection is zero: if it is then you simply cannot get a new game either, right? Also, if you got a computer without the net on it (which should not be too rare for computers which are dedicated to run old games), you're boned.

That's a huge difference if you compare that to the "normal" way of acquiring stuff. Even online purchases like Ebay and similar, while also being an online service, allow you to simply do a quick visit anywhere (say, an internet café) and then eagerly await your stuff at home to install it normally.

Also, what does exactly mean"(if steam detects even the slightest hint of a connection it will try to go online)"? I'd be interested to have more information about that.

It seems like you're saying the equivalent of "these shoes don't come in my exact size so I'm going to steal them instead."

As in, that's the way the product is being sold, just because you happen to disagree with part of it does not mean you are "forced" into pirating the thing. It's a computer game, not a human right.

Sorry, but your analogy is flawed at several levels.

If your analogy was correct then you would need to say something akin to: "shoe companies does produce my shoe size but they simply refuse to sell them to my country for whatever reason. All of them. So I am left either choosing nothing or trying to "steal" it from them since they store them right next door..."