r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 11h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/ThatsRightSirFLOSS 11h ago

I…they’re bragging because their launcher opens 5 seconds faster? And they vibe coded their way to it? Dumb as hell

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u/ZaProtatoAssassin 11h ago

It's launching faster because it's still lacking 90% of the features steam has.

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u/ThatAstronautGuy 61 10h ago

It's also missing half the features the normal Epic Games launcher has 😆

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u/aVarangian 9h ago

I'm surprised that is mathematically possible

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u/15demi08 8h ago

0 / 2 = ?

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u/xian0 9h ago

I wonder if it has the features Garena has.

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u/Aerographic 8h ago

The thing is, it doesn't. I even tested it, Steam opens half a second afterwards and only because it takes time to validate the login. You know, because there's tens of millions of users online of which a good chunk are logging in at the same time.

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u/movzx 8h ago

'Cold Start' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in their statement. What does that mean to them? Are they using Steam Guard and having to click a button on a secondary device? Are they including time spent on dialogs? I think Steam has some one time prompts on first install.

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u/Aerographic 8h ago

I think by "cold start" they mean, software is not running, no resources whatsoever loaded, nothing in paged RAM, etc. As opposed to restoring the already-running software from the tray.

Point is, the difference remains minimal in both cases.

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u/afito 9h ago

No you see, when I need 15min to decide what to play, and the game then (possible due to mods) takes 5min to start and load and everything else, it is absolutely crucial that the launcher opens a whopping 5sec faster.

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u/Kriziiii 3h ago

No, this is quite smart of them. They have doubled the average user time from 5 to 10 seconds.

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u/ohx 12m ago

I used to work on the Epic Games launcher. It was pretty shit. So bad in fact that I'd believe vibe coding a clone would actually have better results.