Disable updating of games when they launch

[DryRubberChicken]

ARK is driving me nuts. 2x daily updates for a dlc I will never bother buying.
Steam forces me to update that. I play lan with the wife, but because of how the game is made it seems I need to not be in offline mode.
How can I diable updates completely.
UNtil I have a astroke and decide to give more money to these people(never) I need the updates to just stop. It has ruinded the game for me. I spend more time updating than playing.

[Forcen]

Use offline mode and block Steam from connecting to the internet.
This is a firewall thing that blocks everything by default and then lets you unblock the rest.
http://tinywall.pados.hu/

You could also look into getting this thing for saving bandwidht: https://steamcache.github.io/

Or check the suggestion forums for patch local caching sharing fuctionality.

[DryRubberChicken]

Publicado originalmente por Forcen:

Use offline mode and block Steam from connecting to the internet.
This is a firewall thing that blocks everything by default and then lets you unblock the rest.
http://tinywall.pados.hu/

You could also look into getting this thing for saving bandwidht: https://steamcache.github.io/

Or check the suggestion forums for patch local caching sharing fuctionality.

Thanks mate.
It is less about the bandwidth and more about the constant irritation caused by lazy unprofessional devs.

[Forcen]

Yeah, that's fair.

They should do it like Factorio does it. They have separate branches for each version for beta testing and they stay on that version number.
All this is done via the beta branch thing in Steam, you can even downgrade to older versions if you want. Right now I'm on an older version since i forgot about it.

They kind of have to do this since patches break existing things they built but all devs could do this I suppose.

This might be trickier with getting servers to stay on a version and all that but ask them to do this.