Steam is the best innovation in the history of gaming, forcing and using it wouldn't be a problem. Except for your 80 year old grandpa who doesn't have internet connection at his home.
If you don't have a internet, then I say this in sorrow: You probably can't even run the game at a proper setting.
Steam got 25 Million active users, it got a in-game browser, groups, communities and you can add friends which you can talk directly through VOIP or steam chat WHILE playing the [censored] game.
Better than that, you got steam browser that you can use whenever you want, in any situation. Just press ALT + TAB and you can do whatever you want.
Achivements, yeah did I mention that? You don't want it right?
You just want to go back into time, and make Bethesda profits go down since of your behavior.
I speak for the whole steam community, they don't care to write here. You guys are just being old fashioned.
Get steam. Then talk.
- Skyrim