At valve, people work on things they want to work on. Evidently no one cared enough or thought it enough of a problem to deal with, but now that doing it pisses on epic? Now it’s fun.
You are clueless. That time spent wasnt and isn’t worth their time investment. It was and has always been a great product. Now it’s an even better product and you’re whining.
Loading time is one of the key metrics for every ecommerce site for good reasons. It is actually shocking that the biggest store for computer games was not optimized here.
That’s not shocking at all. What also is not shocking at all is random keyboard warriors on Lemmy think they know more and can do better than the best gaming company in the world…
At valve, people work on things they want to work on. Evidently no one cared enough or thought it enough of a problem to deal with, but now that doing it pisses on epic? Now it’s fun.
Which is a really bad way to do things - yes, it’s not fun. But they have let hundreds of millions of people wait for years?
Valve and their user base seem to be doing just fine.
I think noone cared because every software start is slow as shit nowadays. Steam was kinda average at best.
But as a result, the quality is very noticable, when you have people working with relatively less pressure on things that they love
You are clueless. That time spent wasnt and isn’t worth their time investment. It was and has always been a great product. Now it’s an even better product and you’re whining.
You can’t make this up.
Loading time is one of the key metrics for every ecommerce site for good reasons. It is actually shocking that the biggest store for computer games was not optimized here.
That’s not shocking at all. What also is not shocking at all is random keyboard warriors on Lemmy think they know more and can do better than the best gaming company in the world…
Dude, let’s just agree that longer startup times are bad?