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Yes, we're all very desperate to leave the Steam ecosystem, we're just waiting for ... checks notes ... a slightly faster launcher.
Yes, that's it: a slightly faster launcher.
I'm sorry Steam, is not you. But that new launcher is so slightly faster... I can't resist.
hahaha They give away games and people still do not switch. Why is that?
Because their launcher wasn't fast enough, obviously!
No, no. You forgot about this:
So a slightly faster launcher that is light on features!
Wait, light on features? That's the current EGS, lol. What else are they gonna shave off? Launching a game? The UI so it is now in a command line? The whole store?
That's actually a great feature. To be able to type launch from my terminal and not see the store... Fuzzy matching and list completion would even make it better - that could even tie into a store link.
launch rocketgets you two games you own in a list and 3 marked with a store icon. Boom! Over to you, ValveThat sounds like an awful lot of features to implement.
Not that many, but it would still be cool. They could roadmap it and iterate. A person can dream
Exemplary example of how tech bros think
tbh it was a legitimate issue with the epic launcher the last time i used it: everything loaded for three seconds each time since it was some sort of prohibitively bloated framework web app
Yeah it legit took more than a minute to launch the fucking barebone app, that's the reason most people haven't been using the store. It's definitely because the launch speed is so so slow that people not using it, good on them to make it usable, now maybe fix the other thing.
The hilarious part is, yes, I don't care how fast my launcher is.
But... also, Steam is by far the slowest, least responsive program on my computer.
"Faster than Steam" feels like a joke.
I don't use a lot of non-open source applications (and not a lot of desktop applications generally). Have they gotten so bad that the slowness of Steam doesn't feel bad to people anymore?
I think it's just a select few people that have issues with Steam. I've never once thought or felt that steam was slow. Some games start up slow, but that's not because of Steam. Just using the program is quite responsive.