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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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[–] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It depends if it's a free improvement or not. If this improved time to open the window at the cost of deferring loading some important functionality it might be a net loss for example

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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