The digital game distribution platform Steam, developed by Valve, is removing a feature that players love very much. Proprietary by the company, there will no longer be the option to revert to an earlier version of a game.
When updates to some games reduced the performance of the games, players were solving the problem by switching to older versions of the games. Updates to games such as Grand Theft Auto 4, Dragonball Z: Kakarot and Beat Saber required users to revert to an older version. Reverting to previous game builds could be used for many purposes, such as modding and speeding up, reverting faulty or controversial versions.
Users will be denied access to older versions:
According to the news shared by SteamDB, Steam will change this situation soon. This situation, seen in the beta version of the platform, will no longer prevent us from downloading old versions of games.
However, developers who want to play old versions to players will be able to continue using a solution that is still valid today. Developers will be able to let us play old versions by listing the game versions in the beta tab. Today, we can see this feature in Euro Truck Simulator 2.
The reason for such a change is explained by Steam in the beta notes as “Making sure all installed and Cloud enabled games are synced as soon as possible to avoid lags when launching games and prepare for offline play”.
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