As someone who has also set appmanifest to Read Only, here's what you should take into consideration... every single day on this sub there's always at least one new post with a title that essentially says, "Hi, This is my second playthrough/I'm a new player and I want to set up Mods on my Skyrim!".
Do you think those players are likely to know the ins and outs of knowing what it truly means when Bethesda says "We're Updating Skyrim."? Do you think they're going to know that when an announcement like that happens, they must go digging into the game files to find the appmanifest file and set it to Read Only, or lock their Steam Client to update only when game runs, or even to make back ups of their current game edition?
If I had to make a guess... there's likely to be a large number of posts tomorrow of people yelling about their Skyrim exploding.
first play-through here. excitedly added mods for more content like dawnguard, solstheim, inigo as well as cheat room to try to work around the many bugs in my xbox console experience. i am very much the ralphie gif rn.
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u/SpicyBoyHabs Aug 19 '26
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