▲ 424 ▼ Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com) submitted 3 weeks ago by slartibartfast141@piefed.zip to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 162 comments fedilink hide all child comments Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) If it was so easy why has it taken so long? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago Because it almost certainly wasn't so easy and was something they've been working on for a while and just lined up this way permalink fedilink source parent [–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago I think the post is misleading. Steam's fixes to launch faster came out on October 13th, the day before Epic's new client designed to launch faster came out. It is likely that someone at Valve spent a long time designing, coding, and testing the improvements. As far as I'm aware, no one at Valve was bragging about their change being easy, or completing it quickly. Epic was/is the only one bragging. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago Because it almost certainly wasn't so easy and was something they've been working on for a while and just lined up this way permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago I think the post is misleading. Steam's fixes to launch faster came out on October 13th, the day before Epic's new client designed to launch faster came out. It is likely that someone at Valve spent a long time designing, coding, and testing the improvements. As far as I'm aware, no one at Valve was bragging about their change being easy, or completing it quickly. Epic was/is the only one bragging. permalink fedilink source parent