Steam isn't drm they say.... Total war games have it!!!!

Whoever made you believe Steam isn't DRM was talking such lies XD

Three Kingdoms has the Denuvo cancer. You can't play it without going online as it needs to renew the license god knows whenever it wants.

Isn't that denuvo's fault? It needs to do online check the first time you run the game.
Iirc, it'll also do a periodic check

Its denuvo crap at its finest, and here is a kick - Three Kingdoms got cracked recently, so pirating users can play comfortably offline, but legit customers who paid for the game cant do that, that some way to treat paying gamers.

That's denuvo for you

Basically Steam can be DRM free, some games actually are DRM free on Steam, e.g. Pillars of Eternity. You'll notice the difference, when you can just run them out of the installation directory without even having to start the Steam launcher. For those games, Steam basically works just as a download manager, once it's installed it should work just fine in offline mode.
However, Steam does allow 3rd-party DRM, including crap like Denuvo which does periodically online checks, or even complete 3rd party launchers like Uplay.

If you`ve got a android mobile with some credit plug it in to your pc and activate the usb tethering or mobile hotspot if your pc has wifi. Start steam and it should let you bypass this bullshit, then just unplug it (you might want to disable automatic updates on your games so it doesnt start raping your data allowance)

Nothing to do on steam how makers of the game has done copy protection

At least Warhammer, Rome ii and Attila (games what I own) be updated (5'6 mb) three or four days ago. Since CA introduce the new launcher, this kind of update is usual eevery month. Your problem looks like that

Steam isn't DRM. And Facebook said, the other day, that they aren't a social networking platform.

Steam is DRM, but many here and on other platforms should be able to distinguish between copy protection systems and drm....or forced online connections. They are completly different systems... even if they work together.

Denuvo (which is drm) from Sony DADC require a first time activation and at irregular intervals another one. No internet? Well, consumers are ****... Of cource we as customers do not own any of our purchased products, so we have no rights... and Denuvo products often demand even smaller updates to refresh their drm... forced 200-400mb patches without real content. Can be seen by many developer and publisher.

Warhammer products as examples have enough other nasty stuff in
https://www.gameindustry.de/search/index.php?suchbegriff=warhammer&suche=los
(connections and data transfer by each title)

"Eeeeeeh the DRM side of steam works when you use Steam offline so yeah that's not an issue , "

Yes, as long as your products are activated and Steam runs online at least one time. Else, same as mentioned above, consumers have bad luck with their "own" property.

Ubisoft with the same mechanic is another example. Offline yes...as long as...

So it's an "issue". A more bigger and complicated one as one "i can't play offline because of ..." complain.