What is up with all these 0 byte download updates on Steam?

I’ve had 20 over the last 2 days. I get all excited thinking these games are getting neat new updates or fixes then… nothing. Bah!

Happens all the time. I don’t recall ever reading a straight answer from Steam. Sorry I can’t help.

NSA malware installs

This time around, it may be individual game developers who have some element of their games that they’re worried about GDPR compliance, and putting that in some tiny file that meets that requirement.

I always figured it was something miniscule and weird like a license check or something tedious like that.

Purely a guess though.

Only answer I’ve found in the past is Steam doing some kind of “restructure” to make future updates “easier.” Sounded like a half answer, at best. Regardless, they happen fairly frequently.

I just got the same 0 byte updates today that I got yesterday on 20 games. So weird.