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A comment on Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam.

Re:Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam by CppCoder on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:39AM (#30439386)
The annoying part with Steam is, almost every time I start it, it is downloading a few hundred MB large update.

This makes absolutely no sense to me. * first of all they could reduce the patch size * second, what need is there to update a launcher this often, why not pull the required info from some online database

This thing is wasting internet traffic without any apparent good reason.

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Re:Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam by 1_player on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:54AM (#30439483)
You probably open it pretty infrequently (or you're on the beta branch), because I open it daily and updates happen once a month if ever.

It'd be the same if you were to open Chrome once a month and it wasn't autoupdating itself in the background. Steam doesn't have an autoupdate background process like Chrome does.

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