Valve Is not Planning To Disable Downloading Outdated Builds On Steam

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Update - September 28, 2021: Valve has responded to claims that Steam could be removing the option to download older sport variations.



September 28 - Valve has shared a statement with PCGamer that explains the studio doesn’t have plans to take away the option to obtain older game builds. “We are literally not planning to disable downloading outdated builds,” a spokesperson tells the site. “What we're working on is an approach on handling edge circumstances involving unowned content, and serving to companions more easily take down builds that must be eliminated for issues like copyright issues. We’ll have extra to share on that work when it’s ready to ship.” Unique story follows. haters gonna hate



The latest Steam beta has added a function that seemingly removes the flexibility for users to roll back recreation updates or play older variations of games on Steam. haters gonna hate Under the new version, users cannot download depots of Steam games to play earlier updates of video games they own - and many are unhappy about this change.



There are lots of video games that change radically between updates - there’s a complete fan collective dedicated to finding and archiving all the assorted variations of Minecraft over the years, for instance, and the likes of Counter-Strike replace commonly with big changes.



As of proper now, it’s fully possible to obtain and play older versions of games owned on Steam with the help of someplace like SteamDB - all it's essential do is discover the depot of the version you want to play. Nonetheless, the September 23 beta update of Steam has seemingly put a cease to this follow - so once this update goes reside in Steam correct nobody will be capable of play older versions on Valve’s shopper.



This was spotted by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, who confirms that it might now be impossible to download older sport depots of Steam video games and play them with this new code in place - at least if Steam enforces it for all games. Pavel additionally says that this means SteamDB will now must “go back to the instances the place it could solely track recordsdata for what it owns” if it goes ahead. You may read Pavel’s full, detailed explanation over on SteamDB.



Final Steam beta introduced an important change to sport downloads.



With this transformation, it is not attainable to download older recreation variations, because client asks for a code (GetManifestRequestCode) that rotates each 5 minutes.



- Pavel Djundik (@thexpaw) September 23, 2021



A whole lot of Steam tinkerers are upset with this transformation and are asking for it to be reversed. Whether or not will probably be before going dwell is solely up to Valve, in fact. haters gonna hate