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This is a textbook customer service response, but it reinforces my own hesitancy to even bother BUYING a game that requires an online account to actually access and play, especially if it isn't multiplayer and therefore doesn't NEED to be online by its nature (PORTAL as an example...GREAT GAME, DON'T WANT A STEAM ACCOUNT!) I once bought a used game that as it turns out required Steam access (it didn't say anything on the package as I purchased it), and someone had already activated it. I was unable to play it, and was rather disappointed.
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