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The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait before being able to launch a game.
>It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them,
Yeah, it opens the webpage inside the app. Any browser would do the same.
> and keeps them up to date in the background.
The steam client has no such feature: it only updates games IN THE FOREGROUND. There's no service or deamon that does anything in the background.
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The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait before being able to launch a game.
>It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them,
Yeah, it opens the webpage inside the app. Any browser would do the same.
> and keeps them up to date in the background.
The steam client has no such feature: it only updates games IN THE FOREGROUND. There's no service or deamon that does anything in the background.