I have bought Skyrim and installed it and Steam. I have Dial-Up and downloaded Steam until it said it was connecting to my Steam account. Then I went to Woods (a grocery store that has internet) and downloaded it and started to play, then I went home and tried to play it, but it was connecting to my Steam account again. I have also tried to do offline mode, but it said there was some sort of problem, so does Skyrim need internet?

To setup steam to run in offline mode you have to be on the internet. Once that's done you will be able to play skyrim offline.

Ok, thank you!

scumbag steam: start in offline mode, "connection failed."

Dial up? That still exists? I thought my parents were the last people to get High Speed internet...

@Nightriff said:

Dial up? That still exists? I thought my parents were the last people to get High Speed internet...

This is just pure ignorance. Some people still live in caves and inside grizzly bears. These locations are prohibitively expensive to supply with high-speed internet, thus dial-up still exists.

/sarcasm (in case you missed it :P)

Well I do have high-speed internet at my dad's house, which i go to for the summer. But at my mom's we have dial-up, we live in a small town in Missouri.

Wow, that basically rules out you downloading patches. Unless you want to wait a month to download them.

@Sooty said:

Wow, that basically rules out you downloading patches. Unless you want to wait a month to download them.

Dial up ain't that slow. 64Kbs is enough to download patches in less then an hour.

@Ravenlight said:

@Nightriff said:

Dial up? That still exists? I thought my parents were the last people to get High Speed internet...

This is just pure ignorance. Some people still live in caves and inside grizzly bears. These locations are prohibitively expensive to supply with high-speed internet, thus dial-up still exists.

/sarcasm (in case you missed it :P)

Of course I'm ignorant, I'm an American

@Starfishhunter9 said:

@Sooty said:

Wow, that basically rules out you downloading patches. Unless you want to wait a month to download them.

Dial up ain't that slow. 64Kbs is enough to download patches in less then an hour.

Depends entirely on the game, 56k dial-up is like less 5kb/s, you won't be downloading 50+mb in an hour.

Skyrim doesn't need internet, they have magic you know.

@Ravenlight said:

Some people still live in caves and inside grizzly bears.

o_O