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[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, Minecraft updates break mods all the time but there it is just something the community accepts as normal and lives with. The huge update rage is something I only see with Bethesda game modding.

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

Because Bethesda games are exclusively single player and offer absolutely no way to decline updates. If they had the old version available as a "beta" or (even better) if Valve stopped dying on the "every game must be updated before launching it even single player games because fuck you" hill there wouldn't be any outrage.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No way to decline update

Turn automatic updating off for the game in question in Steam, and then set the download rate for Steam to 0 so it can't update when you start up the game.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

People have whined about this for twenty years. Yawn

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Then perhaps it is an issue that should be remedied?

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

They've got top men working on it as we speak.

Top. Men.

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I prefer my men bottom.

[-] aaaa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Right, that's really more of a Steam issue than a Bethesda issue. I get why Valve and Bethesda don't want to provide customer support for old versions, but they don't have to. People have been figuring out their own problems when using obsolete systems or software for a long time.

I have no issue with Steam pushing the updates and encouraging you to take them, but giving no way to decline is a pretty poor user experience. Especially when we already know they keep old versions on their servers, as people have made guides on how to downgrade with Steam

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

So you say that you want the gog.com version of the game then?

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Without having to re-buy the game, yes. I'd even be willing to pay GOG a bit of money for the cost of hosting the files etc, but I'm not paying Bethesda twice. That's just rewarding bad behaviour.

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