The interview actually said AS: The plan is six months and we'll have a first playable. We are talking to some publishers right now and seeing what is out there. It's not that we need the published deal, because simply we don't, but you need to explore all options. We'll have something on all three platforms, it will be one track, weather, damage, new particle system, physics and AI. I suspect we'll have multiple cars on that track with all the new systems running. This of course is our internal 1st playable that we are talking about and nothing that we will be sharing with the public.
B.S I have 13 games on steam, race room and dirt rally are the only ones I can't play offline. And if I block DR with my firewall I can play that offline as well.
I think what he means is that these games don't run without steam (DRM). If something bad happens to valve and steam is gone, your games are gone. When you buy games at GOG you really own them because they have no DRM. You would have to keep the steam client alive on your PC in order to be able to play the games.
To be honest - that particular thread was open waaaaaaaaaay to long... 683 posts and not even 10% of them contains any useful information or has any relevance...