Developers can do this if they choose to right now.
Most devs would turn off the feature if Steam was just indexing every release and letting people switch to old ones. This is because it will lead to users complaining about old versions for any number of dumb reasons.
The amount of times I decided to not buy an interesting looking game on deep sale due to reviews saying that the newest update broke game after which the devs dipped out is way too big…
At least there is a system build into Steam that allows that. Some games offer such an option even. They just need to expand that option and make it more standard. Also in the past, Steam game updates were not forced and you could stay on an older version. That should be allowed too, at least for non online games.
I don’t know if you can read or not, but I said its not a bonus anymore. Don’t hallucinate stuff I did not say. If I like an update or not, depends on the update. Not every update is a bonus, especially if they have to fix an undercooked game in example. A forced update is not a bonus. I hope that is clear now.
Edit: Sorry for being snarky, but stuff like this (putting things in my mouth I didn’t say) gets me.
To be fair I nearly word for word parroted your post back at you. It sounds like you didn’t include the context you wanted for someone like me who just looks at what they were given
No you didn’t. You made an assumption about if i like it or not. And my reply has nothing to do with if i like the updates or not. I am not sure how to be more clear than my extended explanation.
If updates are forced on you, its not a bonus anymore.
I wish Steam would have better versioning support, an option to easily use the previous builds of a game.
Developers can do this if they choose to right now.
Most devs would turn off the feature if Steam was just indexing every release and letting people switch to old ones. This is because it will lead to users complaining about old versions for any number of dumb reasons.
Fuck em, just make it mandatory for the last 3 versions at least.
The amount of times I decided to not buy an interesting looking game on deep sale due to reviews saying that the newest update broke game after which the devs dipped out is way too big…
At least there is a system build into Steam that allows that. Some games offer such an option even. They just need to expand that option and make it more standard. Also in the past, Steam game updates were not forced and you could stay on an older version. That should be allowed too, at least for non online games.
Captain of Industry has every version before a major release available. The tools are there.
So wait, if they make a bonus and steam makes you update the game, you automatically don’t like it?
I don’t know if you can read or not, but I said its not a bonus anymore. Don’t hallucinate stuff I did not say. If I like an update or not, depends on the update. Not every update is a bonus, especially if they have to fix an undercooked game in example. A forced update is not a bonus. I hope that is clear now.
Edit: Sorry for being snarky, but stuff like this (putting things in my mouth I didn’t say) gets me.
To be fair I nearly word for word parroted your post back at you. It sounds like you didn’t include the context you wanted for someone like me who just looks at what they were given
No you didn’t. You made an assumption about if i like it or not. And my reply has nothing to do with if i like the updates or not. I am not sure how to be more clear than my extended explanation.
Clearly we’re at odds, shall we agree to disagree?
Obviously we are not, if you put stuff into my mouth I didn’t say or meant to say (where I was clear and even explained it to you afterwards).
If you say so