Posted April 26, 2024
high rated
Despite all the faults and troubles; all the breaking of so many of your promises made when you launched, the crappy forums that seem to be outdated; despite all of that, I still very much love you for at least mostly sticking to the culture of being more in line with gamers wishes and desires than corporations.
I was reminded of that tonight in a big way.
I've been playing Fallout 4 since it came out, and since the patch that brought us Survival mode I have been playing thousands and thousands of hours trying to finish the game and all DLC's playing perma-death. I have likely started more than a hundred games, maybe even several hundred I dunno. I've got a conservative estimate of 6,000 hours in, and a realistic one of 7,000 hours, and have not reached that goal. But the ride has been fun.
But, I'm currently at level 70 in a game that the save file says I have 11 days, and 17 hours into. That's, what, over 250 hours. And I knew about the update coming today, but I didn't want to update until I died in this game and had to start over. So I read the Steam forums and found a method that many claimed would work. Simply go in and make a manifest file in the Steam directories related to Fallout 4 a "read only" file. So, I did that.
Not so. The game didn't update (good), but it won't let me play until I update it (bad). I really didn't want to experience the "added content" in the middle of the game I was playing but I also didn't want to give up on this game I've gotten so far into. But Steam would NOT let me play without updating. Even though making that manifest file read only did stop the update (an error message shows on the Manage Downloads screen), I couldn't play without updating because the green PLAY button has been replaced with a blue "Resume Update" button.
So, no way to continue this game without updating.
This is where GOG comes in. And your culture of NOT forcing updates on players. I had previously downloaded Fallout 4 just for this possibility a week or two ago. Installed it. Installed the DLC. Fired it up, and didn't even have to move my save games, or adjust my settings, as all of that seemed to have transferred from the Steam setup. Boom. Continuing my game without the update. I'm sure I'll update when I die in this game, but until then, I'm not FORCED to play the updated version, thanks to your culture here, albeit seeming to come apart at the seems at times, but certainly still present in some form.
THANK YOU. Thank you very much, sincerely, from my heart. This is how gaming is supposed to be. PLAYERS CHOICE. No forced client. No forced updates. Despite recent failings and moving away some from the original culture, you are still far and away the best option out there for demanding gaming consumers. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I was reminded of that tonight in a big way.
I've been playing Fallout 4 since it came out, and since the patch that brought us Survival mode I have been playing thousands and thousands of hours trying to finish the game and all DLC's playing perma-death. I have likely started more than a hundred games, maybe even several hundred I dunno. I've got a conservative estimate of 6,000 hours in, and a realistic one of 7,000 hours, and have not reached that goal. But the ride has been fun.
But, I'm currently at level 70 in a game that the save file says I have 11 days, and 17 hours into. That's, what, over 250 hours. And I knew about the update coming today, but I didn't want to update until I died in this game and had to start over. So I read the Steam forums and found a method that many claimed would work. Simply go in and make a manifest file in the Steam directories related to Fallout 4 a "read only" file. So, I did that.
Not so. The game didn't update (good), but it won't let me play until I update it (bad). I really didn't want to experience the "added content" in the middle of the game I was playing but I also didn't want to give up on this game I've gotten so far into. But Steam would NOT let me play without updating. Even though making that manifest file read only did stop the update (an error message shows on the Manage Downloads screen), I couldn't play without updating because the green PLAY button has been replaced with a blue "Resume Update" button.
So, no way to continue this game without updating.
This is where GOG comes in. And your culture of NOT forcing updates on players. I had previously downloaded Fallout 4 just for this possibility a week or two ago. Installed it. Installed the DLC. Fired it up, and didn't even have to move my save games, or adjust my settings, as all of that seemed to have transferred from the Steam setup. Boom. Continuing my game without the update. I'm sure I'll update when I die in this game, but until then, I'm not FORCED to play the updated version, thanks to your culture here, albeit seeming to come apart at the seems at times, but certainly still present in some form.
THANK YOU. Thank you very much, sincerely, from my heart. This is how gaming is supposed to be. PLAYERS CHOICE. No forced client. No forced updates. Despite recent failings and moving away some from the original culture, you are still far and away the best option out there for demanding gaming consumers. THANK YOU SO MUCH.