I would’ve liked to have seen a timeline of periods as to when you played a game. Like it could be displayed in a bar like picture, that shows the time you’ve bought the game and every dot afterwards, details when you’ve played the game after that point up to the recent point of time.
To expand a little on this idea. The timeline could go by a month within a year. So, it’d be like you played a game at a point in 2024, on December. It doesn’t have to be specifically as to what time but if needed, either way works. It could show how many times too during that day on the month of and year of, you launched the game for.
Another idea that just dawned upon me of remembering is - the ability to recycle games. I envy Europe because over there, you have the ability to resell games from your own library. Can’t do that here in the US. But I would’ve preferred recycling because even though my current library is over 630 games, I know when accounting the “graveyard” of games I’ve removed from my library, I’m easily over 1,100.
It would just be nice to give back to the community of games I know that I’ll never give the time of day to and never have given the time of day to. Just so it’d be in the hands of someone who would play it. But they’re all just going to sit there, collecting virtual dust, reminders to me of bad purchasing decisions and so on.
I understand too as to why maybe we can’t have a feature, is because some people may get opportunistically devious about the idea.
The ability to be able to set a game to “do not update”
in the meantime you can move the game out of the steam library folder and that will generally stop it from being steam managed for updates and dlc downloads, but yes that is one area where GOG is ahead of steam
I thought that was a feature.
You can select versions/channels (beta, 1.0, etc) decided by the devs but there is no other way afaik to avoid updating in online mode. Its especially annoying for modded games.
There is a console built into Steam that lets you downgrade games (among many other things) even when the developer doesn‘t offer older versions officially through the regular launcher. This is only for extreme cases were you really really just want to keep your mods or an update doesn‘t work on your machine because you will have to redownload the entire game. There are online tutorials that explain it and each version for each game has a unique ID that you need in order to download it. So there is always way but it‘s clear the platform doesn‘t really want you to use it or know about it.
You know, I forget the depot system exists at times. It’s super annoying to use and isn’t officially documented anywhere, and requires a third party to grab the depot numbers, but yea this does allow you to downgrade games.
For some additional context though; for this system to work you need to download the depot then go into offline mode and copy the files over to the game install library, and if it doesn’t work then chances are the depot was encrypted with a key but there are programs you can download to download depots with them using your steam credentials.
It doesn’t even fit my use case. Sometimes you don’t have a lot of time to play so the last thing you want is to sit there and wait while the game updates. Let me play when I have the time and I’ll let the game update when I don’t have the time.
No, I totally agree. They should always let the user decide if they want the update or not. This was just a tip for desperate users because apparently even older patches are still available on Steam‘s servers when the game doesn‘t officially support alternate patches.
I can’t tell the intent on your comment, if you were joking that it was a feature to intentionally not do so disregard the rest of this post.
it is a feature if you never plan to launch it. but once it sees there an update available it won’t let you launch until you update it
The intent of my comment was to either be confirmed or denied with an explanation. The latter happened, and that makes sense. I didn’t know about that, I just remembered seeing an option like that somewhere in the UI.
No worries I just wasn’t sure
yea it’s a really dumb setup, they got so close and then just swing and missed
If you can decide not to receive (potentially) security updates, you can double click an executable
Yeah, this method will work if the game you are playing is using Steam only as a distributor, but if they’re using steam DRM, it will launch Steam and then refuse to open because it needs to update.
Unfortunately not.