Kind of crazy for a company like Valve to have such low-hanging fruits around. They are printing money and should have the ressources to put some manpower into improving important things like the startup time of their shop.
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.
Kind of crazy for a company like Valve to have such low-hanging fruits around. They are printing money and should have the ressources to put some manpower into improving important things like the startup time of their shop.
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.