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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    3 hours ago

    As Steam has been extremely slow to launch for quite some time now, anybody want to take a stab at why it took an Epic Games taunt for them to take care of it?

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        Maybe it’s because I’m opted into the beta, so I’m always downloading updates. But it always takes a couple of minutes to launch from scratch for me and my gaming PC is no slouch.

        But once I launch it, I leave it up, I never close it, so it’s never just running in the background waiting for me to pop it up again.

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        Ah. So there you go. And it will go down in history written in stone and people will still be talking about it 100 years from now