Classic British Flight Sim

Just Flight are offering cliffs of dover for £13.99 until 9.00am Monday, now I was interested as its 60% off however in the small print it says you have to have a steam account which is installed in the download then when playing the game have an internet connection and steam running. I decided no thanks, what happened to just install and run??

You can run steam in offline mode. It needs connection on install for all the positive reasons for Steam such as anti-piracy, online saved info in case you want to reinstall without losing game data and other things.

It only talks about internet conection needed to play because they assume you are playing multiplayer online.

I don't have Cliffs of Dover but I do have Steam and I can play them "offline" I can also do things like game file verifications, it checks for any damaged files and repairs and of course automatic game updates.

I've got Steam, it's very handy when you decide to rebuild/format your computer as once you reinstall the Steam client it just goes about downloading and putting your games back on your machine with your saved games etc. in place. It also seems to sync them between my desktop and my laptop, haven't tried that with Cliffs of Dover mind as I'm fairly sure it'd fry itself to death trying to run it.
Cliffs of Dover actually runs fairly well on my desktop, I haven't tried the online multiplayer bit yet though as they seem to take it far too seriously, there's even some sort of setting so you can't move more controls at once than would be realistic which my joystick plays havoc with.

COD is a fair shoot em up but I haven't played it for several months. It's buggy, laggy and booring.
As for Steam. I like it. When you rebuild your PC all the games re-install including your save games. Neat.