How do you disable automatic updating?

[Ley]

Or more accurately: why is this not possible and JFC why does EGS have to be so abysmally terrible, this whole monopoly scheme needs a good house cleaning.

[Zekiran]

Any game that has an online component, even if it's 'playable solo', must be fully updated every time its played. Since I have no idea what game you're complaining about being updated, nor whether "EGS" is epic or a game acronym, ... doesn't much matter.

Steam and its ilk are LITERALLY MADE to update your games automatically.

That's the entire point behind the platform's existence. That's its job. If you have crap internet, or a cap on service, ... dunno what to tell you but it's not on steam or epic or gog or anyone else - they're doing the right thing by pushing updates from the game developers.

You got a beef with a game getting updated, *take it up with the publisher of the game*.

[Cathulhu]

Updates can only be delayed, not disabled. This is intentional and by design.
If users could do that, they would do that and then complain about bugs that have been fixed already.
Developers are free to offer older versions in branches. Games like Euro Truck Simulator 2 and BATTLETECH already do that.

[Ley]

I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

But fortunately I discovered a work around, as much as it's a pain in the ass. Shame on valve for cutting a feature that I and my demographic need, I guess they don't want our money but they know we don't have a different game store to go to.

"Let's just damage the experience of the whole user base for the sake of a vocal minority"
"Bad internet? Data caps? Just switch to a different ISP! Don't like us cutting a feature we used to have? Just switch to a different digital storefront!" https://media2.giphy.com/media/cSv1bjWZrvrHi/giphy.gif

[ONe_mOMENT]

Originally posted by Ley:

Shame on valve for cutting a feature that I and my demographic need

Cant cut a feature that was never there.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

There is an option for the games to only update when you play them. It is set to always update by default. That will help a lot. If you are doing single player games then you can make Steam go into an offline mode. Then nothing can update.

[Ley]

Originally posted by ONe_mOMENT:

Originally posted by Ley:

Shame on valve for cutting a feature that I and my demographic need

Cant cut a feature that was never there.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/CSbPj.png wtf, 3/3 in support of valve cramming updates for any reason or no reason. That's not very PC master race of you.

[The End]

Originally posted by Ley:

Originally posted by ONe_mOMENT:

Cant cut a feature that was never there.

http://i.stack.imgur.com/CSbPj.png wtf, 3/3 in support of valve cramming updates for any reason or no reason. That's not very PC master race of you.

The wording was changed not the function, it works as it always has, you can pause updates untill you launch a game, just like it has been all the time.

[Matt]

Originally posted by Ley:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/CSbPj.png wtf, 3/3 in support of valve cramming updates for any reason or no reason. That's not very PC master race of you.

That screenshot is probably 10-12 years old. And that option didn’t really disable updates. It only prevented updates til the game was launched but due to confusion they updated the label to be more clear.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Ley:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/CSbPj.png wtf, 3/3 in support of valve cramming updates for any reason or no reason. That's not very PC master race of you.

This...

afarnsworth_valve 5 years ago

Steam will always ensure a game is up to date before launching. The "Do not automatically update this game" option was recently renamed to "Only update this game when I launch it" to clear up confusion around the option, but the functionality has not changed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/2do2k2/how_can_i_completely_disable_updates_for_a_game/cjrh29s/

[Jackie Daytona]

Originally posted by Ley:

How do you disable automatic updating?

Or more accurately: why is this not possible and JFC why does EGS have to be so abysmally terrible, this whole monopoly scheme needs a good house cleaning.

"Why is this not possible?"

No one knows.

It's annoying though. I wanted to play a game offline 3-4 months ago. Only had a few minutes to play. Steam demanded I download an update that was over 10GB before I could load the game.

I put off the update for a long time. So long, that by the time I downloaded it I had lost interest in playing.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Originally posted by Kill 'em all:

Originally posted by Ley:

How do you disable automatic updating?

Or more accurately: why is this not possible and JFC why does EGS have to be so abysmally terrible, this whole monopoly scheme needs a good house cleaning.

"Why is this not possible?"

No one knows.

It's annoying though. I wanted to play a game offline 3-4 months ago. Only had a few minutes to play. Steam demanded I download an update that was over 10GB before I could load the game.

I put off the update for a long time. So long, that by the time I downloaded it I had lost interest in playing.

This is someone else's issue? Not yours?

What am I missing?

Your particular solution would be to let the game update then, right? So when you have 10 minutes to play, OH EMM GEE, the game is ready to play!

Crazy how that theoretically would work, huh?

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Ley:

I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

But fortunately I discovered a work around, as much as it's a pain in the ass. Shame on valve for cutting a feature that I and my demographic need, I guess they don't want our money but they know we don't have a different game store to go to.

"Let's just damage the experience of the whole user base for the sake of a vocal minority"
"Bad internet? Data caps? Just switch to a different ISP! Don't like us cutting a feature we used to have? Just switch to a different digital storefront!" https://media2.giphy.com/media/cSv1bjWZrvrHi/giphy.gif

You realise Steam was literally invented as an app to keep Valve's games updated.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Ley:

I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

There's no opinion here.

It's absolute fact. Steam as a platform is INTENDED for exactly this use.

You cannot run online games or games with online components without them being updated. Period. End Of.

If, as stated before, you have a game that the developers have opted to produce branching updates for, opt into it. If they have not, and you really think there's enough demand, present your proof and word a letter to the developers about adding it. They will likely ignore your request, because it takes a massive amount of time and effort, which isn't usually available, to maintain older versions of a game that requires updates.

Your opinion on the matter is irrelevant.

[Ley]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by Ley:

I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

There's no opinion here.

It's absolute fact. Steam as a platform is INTENDED for exactly this use.

You cannot run online games or games with online components without them being updated. Period. End Of.

If, as stated before, you have a game that the developers have opted to produce branching updates for, opt into it. If they have not, and you really think there's enough demand, present your proof and word a letter to the developers about adding it. They will likely ignore your request, because it takes a massive amount of time and effort, which isn't usually available, to maintain older versions of a game that requires updates.

Your opinion on the matter is irrelevant.

This kind of brainwashed slosh is exactly why steam needs some competition. A good summary of your posts would read something like 'A percentage of Steam users require some functionality that Valve could easily spend a pittance of time and resources to implement, but that *could possibly* (but probably not actually) damage the user experience of other Steam users somehow, so ♥♥♥♥ this entire demographic. We don't care about taking their money; and we know we'll get their money anyway, because it's not like they can go spend it somewhere else.

Unless you can find me some quotes from the Valve execs in charge of Steam that says 'Our platform is intended for the sole purpose of updating games' than that statement is infact, your opinion.

My opinion is that Steam is (perhaps not always WAS) a storefront. A digital marketplace by which devs post their games, and Steam takes a percentage of the money. Steam wins, they get a huge pile of money for what is essentially no direct cost.

Your opinion is that the responsibility of updates being offered or opted out of falls onto the individual devs. That opinion is so... WRONG so.. anti-consumer, that it makes me physically ill just reading it, and knowing that you mean it. Do you not use Steam too as a user, do you not care that (lets not even say it's the whole 'do no automatically update' debacle that made me make this post). It's some other feature that is ACTIVELY harming your user experience with no great excuse for its existance. Would you not be angry, even a little bit angry? Or would you still lick the dirt of Valve's boot and say 'Well steam was intended for this exact thing so I guess I'll roll over and take it'

Android, iOS offer opting out of automatic updates for their apps and games. Windows 10 gets berated for its forcing of updates that break everything daily. Should those users who are angry at windows 10 for bricking their software somehow NOT be mad because that's just 'Window 10 as intended'.

My opinion on the matter is not irrelevant. Valve has made money off of me from steam. I am a consumer of Valve's products, even if that product is just the crappy storefront that is the middleman between me and the video games I want to play.

My opinion is that Automatic updates breaking my games is not acceptable, and that you and everyone else in this thread is disagreeing with that opinion is disgusting.

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:

Originally posted by Kill 'em all:

"Why is this not possible?"

No one knows.

It's annoying though. I wanted to play a game offline 3-4 months ago. Only had a few minutes to play. Steam demanded I download an update that was over 10GB before I could load the game.

I put off the update for a long time. So long, that by the time I downloaded it I had lost interest in playing.

This is someone else's issue? Not yours?

What am I missing?

That is the issue of everyone else who would like to play a game without waiting for a 10 gb update they don't want or need. Which is hardly one person. The solution Valve has forced is 'Just wait for the update' and the whole point of my post is 'No, that's dumb, just let me opt out of this update, why does this BASIC functionality not exist in your storefront that I am trying hard not to consider malware.'

[Ley]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by Ley:

I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

But fortunately I discovered a work around, as much as it's a pain in the ass. Shame on valve for cutting a feature that I and my demographic need, I guess they don't want our money but they know we don't have a different game store to go to.

"Let's just damage the experience of the whole user base for the sake of a vocal minority"
"Bad internet? Data caps? Just switch to a different ISP! Don't like us cutting a feature we used to have? Just switch to a different digital storefront!" https://media2.giphy.com/media/cSv1bjWZrvrHi/giphy.gif

You realise Steam was literally invented as an app to keep Valve's games updated.

Yes, and do you realize what % of Steam users TODAY use Steam only as an app to keep Valve's games updated? I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that the number of users who fall into that category is somewhere around .01% or less. That sure is a weak excuse for not adding in something as basic as 'Do not automatically update this game'