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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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[–] bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thankfully, the only company that I believe has ever made an attempt to make something load faster by making it functionally worse is Microsoft with Windows Fast-Startup.

"Ah yes, I know how to make their OS load faster... We'll just never shut it down!" - That's Microsoft-tier intelligence right there.

No, I do not believe that Valve would make their storefront worse in any sense just to beat Epic Games; they frankly couldn't give less of a shit, because they know that the EGL is not competition.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Somebody thought they Kobayashi Maru'd performance optimization