r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 13h ago

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

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u/Powerate 13h ago

Those are NOT the reasons why we use Steam

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u/BurkusCat 12h ago

It would be ignorant to say start time and performance don't matter. Those were some of the biggest complaints about EGS.

I think Steam's performance is within what people find acceptable so it is was never a problem. It's good that Epic's is better now.

I do find it strange that Epic is boasting like this about this though (it would have been better to compare to their old launcher). They know it's going to invite comparisons that their launcher has way fewer features so a quick startup is going to be easier to achieve.

I'm sure Valve could decide to invest time into making similar performance gains if they want to (I think that would be cool). I don't necessarily think just because Steam has more features that it must have a longer startup time - it's an older piece of software and it's just an area they've not focused on improving beyond what the current startup performance is.

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u/BLT_Trade_r 12h ago

Epic is also only used to launch specific games, while tons of people use Steam for much more, so they don't mind it auto-starting and always being available. So people are less likely to notice Steam's startup time when it is always starting at first boot-up.