Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
It also refuses to launch the game unless you allow it to patch. Even tried it in offline mode; either you apply all available patches or you aren't allowed to play. All turning off auto-patching does it stop the game patching without your permission.
I never had this problem, though I only had a couple of games where I did this with, because I had mods.

Never happens? It happens every time my steam game has updated since I don't have steam running unless I want to play the game tied to it.
Vast majority of my games are tied to Steam, so in a way, I have a monetary stake in Steam, thanks to many deals on games.

I know and understand that but the thing is I don't play MP and don't want to. My singleplayer game shouldn't be affected, it's bad practice. My other games allow SP to be played at any version and force an update if you try to launch MP.
Ties into the first, I never had this problem.

I just want to play version 1.0 of my game in singleplayer because I feel that the patches break more than they fix. That's all. I could do it with any other title in my library but not this one because steam will not permit it. I always say that I shall be most happy to be proved wrong; tellingly no one has managed to offer a solution.
On the other hand, patches fix a lot more then they break with possibly additional content from general experience. Only exception was E:TW because CA's fault, but then again, that was nothing to do with Steam. Version 1.00 of that kept crashing and version 1.3 still keeps crashing.