The reason why Steam doesn't give you the option to opt out of updates is...?

>you weren't forced into it, you walked into the prison willingly
What was the alternative? Suicide?

They can do it on the consoles. On PC, Good luck cuz the user can do anything on PC - modding and more.

>The future is now and you weren't forced into it, you walked into the prison willingly.
Wut? I don't really have the ability to change an entire industry on my own. What do you think I should have done?

degrade what? women?

rockstar

you're only lending it, why do you think some steam games have an EULA you have to accept before installing? more and more games on steam now aren't purchased, only leased and they can revoke this at any time.

kek I mean revert to previous versions of the game

disable updates, put disc/cartridge in/pirate dumped game and play. not that hard

Good luck with getting DLCs/patches to work on that.

Because its a private companies storefront? If an exploit is found they probably want to fix it so they don't get their shit broken and sued for data leaks.

how do you think people pirate games in the first place?

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I am talking about the average consolefags. They are always getting screwed in the end.

what? thread about forced patches. and now you want patches after all?
anyway with modded consoles you can pretty much pick and choose whatever.

but who cares about them?

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Nobody wants to waste their time going to court over scammy game update but this shit is 100% illegal and you could easily win the case if you wanted to bother suing corporation over fucking with your copy of a game. EULA is not a contract and doesn't override consumer protection laws.

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that doesnt make it less illegal. they are selling you a liscense and in that second they lose any rights so your liscense

Go full punisher.

i envy your faith in the justice system

Any judge would laugh you out of the building.

Actually he's right you know. A class-action lawsuit would be the obvious way to do this, since everyone who has ever bought a game on steam or a game from a specific list of games could be a plaintiff. A young prosecutor might do this for a career resume, which means a few neet bucks coming our way.

t. brainwashed american consoomers who were conditioned to think they have no rights

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that doesn't even make any sense

>I own everything and I'm hap-

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You are right there is no point in going to the law.

I mean
>franchise license expires
>developer has to cease sales of game
>you still keep the game in your steam library
If your digital copy of a game is supposed to be treated with as much respect as a physical copy, why are the devs allowed to tamper with it?
Looking into it, it seems that steam does let you downgrade to older versions, but also can removes older versions with content whose licenses expired. Still something the EU might wanna take a look at if they haven't already.
pcgamer.com/steam-beta-suggests-you-wont-be-able-to-revert-to-old-game-builds-much-longer/

>That's theft.
water u gonna do aboot it bitch boi?

I didn;t know that.... cool, I can go back to play the original Stellaris. Gosh, I love Steam so much

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Reminder that Valve already lost several cases like this in Europe.

>in Europe.
Who cares?

>companies
>censor
It's not censorship if it's not the government.

>lost cases
you mean complied with regulations?

>could easily win the case
Seeing as the company didn't have the right to sell you the track in the first place. I very much doubt you would have a chance.

Is that a thing? If someone sells you something they did not have the rights to sell, who is in the wrong in the eyes of the law and how does the law resolve it?

>Being an steamcuck

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>being Ivan's personal crypto mine

>sit in offline mode
>update only when launched

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>nooooo no le hecking hackers putting viruses on my free games
May as well not get out irl because you could get jumped on by niggers
Oh wait you are american you most likely will

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>being ivan

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Nobody forced you to install Steam.

YOU NEVER FUCKING OWNED IT MORON

...only if the dev cares enough to set this up

Then, it is not steam's fault?

you should, considering it's what got you refunds

You don't have to launch your games through Steam. Just run the .exe directly.

It sux that I can't do that on my PS4.

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Lmao okay, have fun wasting time and money fighting million dollar companies lawyers in court to the point where it isn't even worth it. If it is so easy why isn't everyone doing it smart guy?

And if I never installed steam that would have fixed everything?

My bad, everyone. My bad.

Because you will own nothing and be happy, won't you, user?

Interesting... You can control whatever you want on Steam meanwhile you can't do it on the console. This looks like you own the stuff on Steam cuz you control it. Irony.

Common misconception, but wrong.

I'm pretty sure a group in France sued and won over this. Not sure about if it would be legal in USA, though

The real non meme answer is that it would be a nightmare for developers to have people reporting bugs that have been patched because they turned off updates and don't know/don't remember. Not to mention multiplayer games which require always being on the latest version. Developers can add old versions as opt-in branches for users if they really want.

Europeans are actually allowed to sell their steam games. It's protected by the EU constitution and Valve respects it based on precedent where people tried selling their steam account or individual games.

In fact Steam has to add an option by 2025 to decouple individual games from your account and be able to sell and trade them in the EU.

Everyone, since Europe's laws on goods and services are near identical to the US.

Wrong, you are in fact the full owner of that instance of the IP.

Like Valve was forced to add the refund system cuz Australia told them to do it.

lmao no, europe is A LOT more pro-consumer than the us

You can only do this for games where the devs care to set it up

then ask the Devs to do it cuz it is very easy to do it.

I'm think you can downgrade games through Steam console commands?
People are switching what version of Elden Ring they have installed for speed running purposes somehow, so there has to be a way.

>2025
I can't wait for drinking the tears of the consolefags/Snoyggers spewing MUH OWNERSHIPS meme

>Europeans are actually allowed to sell their steam games.
lol
can you point me to where this functionality is in the client?

see

Elden Ring at the very least does not support this officially because I don't see any options under Properties>Betas
Unless they gave out some access code I'm not aware of.

Remember, there was no refund functionality.

You can just overwrite the files. Steam isn't going to constantly scan all your shit and compare it to what's on the server to see if a file has changed, it only updates when a new update is pushed by the devs.

??? Steam could easily implement a way to optimize out of updates.