• Jako301@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      Because Bethesda doesn’t provide the legacy versions on steam, unlike other mod focused games, afaik. Once you’ve updated your game, you are stuck with whatever version you have.

      Sure, you can always download the right version from somewhere else, but I wouldn’t count piracy + the risks coming with it as a viable excuse for their fuckup.

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            8 months ago

            So far as I know, you still need to update to launch the game, so you need to disable automatic updates and play offline.

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        8 months ago

        You can still access the legacy versions if you learn how to download the old steam depo manifest that is always archived.

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      8 months ago

      Hosting costs probably. Rolling back a patch is a rare scenario and Steam would have to host every version of every game in their store on their servers indefinitely.

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        8 months ago

        Afaik that’s actually something steam does though, tools like Depot Downloader combined with SteamDB to get the metadata for a target version totally work, I’ve used that in the past to downgrade Skyrim before disabling auto updates. You can do it through the steam console as well.

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      8 months ago

      Steam has support for this (and many games use it). As far as I know it’s just a matter of the developers using it.