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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hosting costs probably. Rolling back a patch is a rare scenario and Steam would have to host every version of every game in their store on their servers indefinitely.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Afaik that's actually something steam does though, tools like Depot Downloader combined with SteamDB to get the metadata for a target version totally work, I've used that in the past to downgrade Skyrim before disabling auto updates. You can do it through the steam console as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I always did this manually, interesting to note there is a program to help with this.