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Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

You can still play it but increasingly games are becoming very different from what you bought.

I’ve started noticing a disturbing trend. More and more games that are older being sold at steep discounts or “free to play” and simultaneously jampacked with invasive telemetry and/or ads/microtransactions. And since Steam won’t let you play older versions, those games are effectively dead.

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atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Out of the thousands of games I have, not once have I noticed anything like you describe.

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh well if you haven’t experienced it, it must not exist then 🤷
  
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  - atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I mean, if it’s a trend, you’d think I would have noticed it by now.
    
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    Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And I suppose my experience doesn’t count? Or you think I’m making this up?
    
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  - Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    hmmm that doesn’t ring a bell here either. Which games do this ?
    
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    Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The most recent ones I’ve noticed are Riders Republic and Borderlands 2
    
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smeg@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
FYI if seems you can access older versions of Steam games, it’s just a bit hacky

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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That is what firewalls and sinkholes are for. Stupid telemetry.

Yet I never noticed such a “trend” in direct combination with steam. The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.
  
  Steam has the clout to fight back against this
  
  As I already mentioned, it is partially because they don’t allow you to run older versions of games.
  
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  - skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    
    […] because they don’t allow you to run older versions of games.
    
    They do if the dev makes it available, I’m looking at four different versions of Terraria in the beta menu right now that stretch back four major versions. I’m pretty sure a couple games in my library somewhere have their entire update history in there, though I can’t think of one to name off the top of my head right now, that’s not a feature I use very often.
    
    This is not true of all games, but it could be, either directly by game devs without Valve even having to care, or via pressure by Valve by just making older versions available whether the devs want it or not. I think the latter option is probably the better move, but there’s technically nothing stopping the former other than the game devs themselves.
    
    There’s also a valid argument that making downpatching very easy would be a huge boon to piracy. This is a reasonable talking point no matter which side of that fence you sit on. It would also probably benefit modding as well, which I think is a more objective good but some game developers or more likely publishers would probably disagree.
    
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