Valve Is not Planning To Disable Downloading Previous Builds On Steam

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Replace - September 28, 2021: Valve has responded to claims that Steam could possibly be eradicating the option to download older game versions.



September 28 - Valve has shared a statement with PCGamer that explains the studio doesn’t have plans to take away the choice to obtain older sport builds. “We are actually not planning to disable downloading old builds,” a spokesperson tells the site. “What we are working on is an approach on dealing with edge cases involving unowned content material, and serving to companions extra simply take down builds that must be eliminated for issues like copyright issues. We’ll have extra to share on that work when it’s able to ship.” Authentic story follows.



The most recent Steam beta has added a characteristic that seemingly removes the flexibility for customers to roll back recreation updates or play older variations of games on Steam. Beneath the brand new version, customers cannot obtain depots of Steam games to play earlier updates of games they own - and lots of are unhappy about this alteration.



There are many video games that change radically between updates - there’s a whole fan collective devoted to finding and archiving all the various versions of Minecraft over the years, for instance, and the likes of Counter-Strike replace regularly with massive changes.



As of proper now, it’s utterly attainable to obtain and play older variations of games owned on Steam with the help of someplace like SteamDB - all you want to do is find the depot of the version you want to play. Nevertheless, the September 23 beta update of Steam has seemingly put a stop to this practice - so once this replace goes dwell in Steam proper nobody will be capable to play older versions on Valve’s client.



This was spotted by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, who confirms that it would now be unimaginable to download older sport depots of Steam video games and play them with this new code in place - no less than if Steam enforces it for all video games. Pavel also says that this implies SteamDB will now have to “go again to the instances the place it could solely monitor recordsdata for what it owns” if it goes forward. My blog You may read Pavel’s full, detailed explanation over on SteamDB.



Last Steam beta launched an essential change to sport downloads.



With this transformation, it's not possible to obtain older recreation versions, because client asks for a code (GetManifestRequestCode) that rotates every 5 minutes.



- Pavel Djundik (@thexpaw) September 23, 2021



Lots of Steam tinkerers are upset with this variation and are asking for it to be reversed. Whether or not it is going to be earlier than going stay is completely up to Valve, after all.