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.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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