Can you roll back games to a previous version?

[Hakuso]

Most of my games (that's saying something as I own over 800 here) are on GOG.

If something is broken in an update there we can choose to play the previous version of the game that actually worked.

Is there a way to roll back a game to before the update that broke it on Steam, or are we just stuck with a useless waste of hard drive space and the price of a game flushed down the toilet?

[flobefall]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1086279994
Try your luck.
It's the first result on Google, btw...

[DarkSpartan]

It's not "official" but it's a feature on Steam, so you're not breaking any rules.

-> Open the Steam console (enter steam://nav/console into your browser's navbar).

-> Type the command download_depot 359870 359871 5168047039601173807 and press enter.

-> It'll start downloading the files but won't display any progress. When it is done, it will display a message pointing to where the files were saved. Go to that directory, and then copy the files to the game's installation directory, overwriting any existing files.

[flobefall]

It isn't official, but they won't ban you for doing it.
The only negative possibillities are that the game won't start because it recognized the older version or the rollback destroyes your savegame, that's all.

And I still can't understand your rant, but 1.) it's offtopic and 2.) everyone got his own opinion.

[Hakuso]

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to get banned for fixing what they broke.

[Hakuso]

Thank you for the information about the console, and confirmation that it won't get me banned for using it, the game that was just broken via update is now functioning just as well as it did for the previous three years before they went and screwed it up through an "update" that only "fixed" your ability to play offline.

[Hakuso]

Denuvo and the may-or-may-not-work offline errors is why I didn't buy Final Fantasy XII (one of my favorites) or XV (one I only would have bought for completion's sake as I didn't really enjoy it on PS4) and Dragon Quest XI.

Those are like Final Fantasy VII and VIII though, the Denuvo ones and the Square Enix Launcher ones from way back when will work offline until they fail at random and lock you out, this one was online only on a Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 or Azure Striker Gunvolt level.

If I wanted to play Final Fantasy online I'd play Final Fantasy Online :)

I buy offline single player games to play when I'm not online, I have other things to do when I have an internet connection, decades old PS2 ports shouldn't demand I be online as if they were some kind of MMO.


Heck, Rise of the Tomb Raider was one I just gave up on because it wouldn't play most of the times I tried to launch it, and they wonder why Shadow of the Tomb Raider had garbage sales numbers. If I couldn't play the last game I'm sure not shelling out for the next one in the series when they didn't even patch the previous one to fix the errors.

Same thing with Bandai Namco and the Tales series. Vesperia has been played for something like 60 hours while Berseria made it to 21, all thanks to problems with playing offline. Honestly I have more hours in Zestria, one of the worst Tales games to date, than I do in Berseria which actually had a pretty good story and gameplay going for it.

[Hakuso]

Maybe, but you'll have to make sure you don't allow Steam to automatically update the game and then switch Steam to offline mode and manually edit the manifest file to tell Steam it is current.

This is FAR too much BS for a PS2 game.

The fact that Square Enix pulled this is terrible, the fact that Valve allows it is even worse.

We bought a game, with requirements for play clearly listed, but it can be changed on a whim to require things we never agreed to and Valve is their accomplice in doing this.

If we could chose the version, and not have to constantly fight with Steam every time we go online to prevent updates, that would be one thing.

As it stands, with every attempt made to force any and every update on you, alterations to the most basic requirements of a game should NOT be allowed.