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Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com)

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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.”

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[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As pathetic as Epic is, this is a strong demonstration of why monopolies are bad and competition is needed.

[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This isn't a case of competition though; Valve didn't slip in a last second speedup to get back at Epic, the patch had already been built and tested and just happened to come out a day after Epic's did.

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Its not a random update in response to Epic.

The September 9 beta branch mentioned improved start up time.

Steam quietly improves itself without making big announcements calling out other companies to try to get attention. Its why it has been working on stuff like Proton, steamos, and hardware.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm with you on this. I've been rather annoyed with watching steam constantly needing to re-download 500 MB of whatever the hell randomly and I run a lot of computers that restart often (benchmarking shitty PCS is kind of a hobby for me).

I'm glad someone called them out and I'm glad that they responded by improving their software and in record time packing it into the next regular release.

This whole thing looks like the market acting like it should when there is at least a tiny modicum of competition. Just wish the competition was healthier and more vibrant. And less Epic.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Steam update has been available in the beta client for over a month. This wasn't a response, they had already done it.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

shrug I still love Steam, and I still love that anyone is trying to keep 'em honest.

I generally run mainline client, so I'm glad they decided to release the update to us non-Beta users.