tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I mean, it’s true that there are lots of games sold on Steam that aren’t great games, but that doesn’t hurt me much.
There are lots of products on Amazon that aren’t that great.
There are lots of websites on the Internet that aren’t that great.
As long as I can get to the stuff I want, all good.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If the dev isn’t a bastard they can make different versions available through steam. Rocksmith found the last shred of decency in their body after breaking cdlc and put the previous version up. Outside of that, yeah it can be rough.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The publishers can do it via uploading beta branches, but there’s also a way to tell the Steam client to fetch old versions independently of that. I remember it coming up specifically with Skyrim, because updates broke a lot of mods environments, and it takes a long time for a lot of mods to be updated (during which time people couldn’t play their modded installs).
searches
steamcommunity.com/app/…/4032473829603430509/
The
download_depotSteam console command.The linked (non-Skyrim-specific) guide talks about how to obtain manifest IDs for versions of other games.
But, yeah. It’s really not how Steam’s intended to be used, and I imagine that hypothetically, one day, it could stop working.
There are also IIRC some ways to block Steam from updating individual games, but again, not intended functionality.
searches
steamcommunity.com/…/3205995441631274440/
If you specifically want control over game updates for some game, then GOG can be a major benefit for that.
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not using Kagi anymore? What have you moved on to?
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
DDG mostly. I’m not unhappy with Kagi on any particular technical aspect, but I’m not happy about the fact that I learned that it was operating out of Serbia (it was often listed as being based in the San Francisco Bay Area; this appears to actually be a residence of the founder). I’d be much more comfortable about them getting in practical legal trouble if they wound up retaining data if they were operating in a US or EU or something legal jurisdiction. I posted about it to !kagi@programming.dev a while back.
If they moved operations to the US or somewhere like that, I’d have no problem using them.