I completely understand your point!

But updates did give me headaches more often than not.

This might be specific for the desktop app, but when I've experienced consistent crashes, corruptions, and many other shenanigans while switching versions, specially while working with other people, just sending files over and back.

But most of all, Github. I can't stress enough how badly it behaves when you add different versions and plugins into the mix. I'm glad I decided to go with 100% vanilla r218 C3 for a big commercial project, because on other cases I've had to deal with surprises weekly, sometimes daily.

You can discard the rest of this post if you want, but Github alone is a great reason to remove obligatory updates, and I think we can agree on that. It works BEAUTIFULLY when it all stays as it is during development, and I'd love for it to keep it that way if it's not too much to ask :) Just a button that lets me skip updates or a checkbox in advanced settings would be enough.

Thank you so much for replying, Ashley, your software is incredilbly powerful, and I've only discovered it's full potential after finishing a few projects with other people over Github.

gustavoChico Try this launcher, you can run any version you want.

https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/construct-desktop-launcher-139502

I tried both launchers before posting any of this, same result.

A workaround Andre gave me was "I flipped through custom again, chose beta and launched and now it did launch me into the correct version. The "do you want to update to latest version" prompt came up but I chose "not now" and it didn't update."

That works, but I'm not a fan of third party stuff, and I think this is a legitimate issue. I'd like to know the reasoning behind forcing an update on a random date, that's all. Another user reported this isn't the first time this has happened. I woke up this morning to find my plugin list empty, and an update I legitimately didn't want and scared the crap out of me.

I hope I'm not sounding too harsh here, Construct 3 is absolutely amazing, and this is the first time I've ever come across something to complain about. The devs do an absolutely incredible work.

Well that absolutely sucks. I think I've found a workaround (using the unofficial launcher, which is ridiculous), but I'd like to know if Ashley thinks forcing an update that breaks workflows is okay.

A huge issue has just arisen a few hours ago regarding c3 Desktop.

It automatically updated everyone to r255 without letting you make a choice. Happened not only to me, but for other members of the team.

This wouldn't be a problem on the web version, I could just revert by changing the url, but here it just autoupdates even after reinstalling everything.

We need to use r218 exclusively so we can ship with Steam integration, and we need the desktop version to work because we're using Github for version control, which is the only reasonable way to do it afaik.

I can't develop anything in this state, so I'd like to at least know that this will be eventually looked into.

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your software!

A huge issue has just arisen a few hours ago regarding c3 Desktop.

It automatically updated everyone to r255 without letting you make a choice. Happened not only to me, but for other members of the team.

This wouldn't be a problem on the web version, I could just revert by changing the url, but here it just autoupdates even after reinstalling everything.

We need to use r218 exclusively so we can ship with Steam integration, and we need the desktop version to work because we're using Github for version control, which is the only reasonable way to do it afaik.

I can't develop anything in this state, so I'd like to at least know that this will be eventually looked into.

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your software!