So why did I just lose all my Workshop subscriptions?

[Rhedd]

And is there an easy way to get them back?
This is seriously bad.

I was subscribed to a ton of mods, and now it says I'm subscribed to nothing!

[Generik Introvert]

its not a space engineers thing. all of the workshop. every game. I lost everything I subscribe to on everything. which is really annoying because most my games deleted the files because I no longer subscribed to it and I have awful internet so its going to take forever to re-download.

[Rhedd]

Oooh, GRAND!

SE is the only game where I use the Workshop, so I guess I'm lucky. I'm sorry for you!

Did this just happen to you today (like maybe it happened to a lot of people at once), and has it ever happened before?

[Generik Introvert]

It happened today and never before as long as I have been using steam. I was using my civ 5 mods just fine last night so It's definitely something that just happened.

[Rhedd]

Thanks for the info. Hope it doesn't happen again!

At least SE doesn't remove mods in games you have saved, so I can find a list of everything I USE. I'm just going to lose all the things that I thought I MIGHT use someday... and a bunch of alternate skyboxes... and I think I go cry now. :P

[TerdBird4U]

the workshop is having some issues I think. In one of my worlds, I loaded several mods that I ended up not even using. After several attempts at removing them and unsubscribing them, they are still subscribed to me and still in my world

[Generik Introvert]

yeah. the workshop has been having lots of troubles since the whole steam discovery update thing. just last week a lot of people where having problems with seeing their subscribed items. like in the workshop on the right there is the button to view only subscribed items. most people couldn't use it. it would just say they aren't subscribed to anything even though they clearly were.

[Racerexia]

And this is why I hate steam....

[Racerexia]

AND on top of that if you play offline, mods break. Any save with mods will get forked

[Rhedd]

i've been using Steam for over five years now, and this is the first time I've had even the slightest bit of trouble with it on any level. I think Steam is a great service.

As of today, all of my subscriptions have been restored. I had resubscribed to a lot of them already, but I needn't have bothered. They fixed the problem.

I'm not 100% thrilled with how the Workshop works, but my biggest problem with that isn't exactly a problem with Steam. What I dislike is how the system gives mod creators SO much conrol.

If I download a mod from the internet and use it in my private, single-player, offline game, I want it to be there when I want to play, in the form I downloaded it. Unfortunately, the Workshop system means that the mod has often been changed, replaced, removed for some decent reason, removed because the author is a whiney ♥♥♥♥♥, or any number of other things that change my game experience without my permission. Can't say I'm a big fan of uncontrolled streaming content, I guess.

Anyway, that's not really a problem with Steam, per se.