Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy

Re:Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship contro... by transcriptase on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:08PM (#44915622)

The “do nothing and win” strategy has served Valve well. The fact is every publisher wants their own launcher on start-up running all the time collecting data, updating all the time, throwing popups at the user.

The user on the other hand doesn’t want 8 different bloated game launchers slowing startup, siphoning bandwidth, constantly updating, using a bunch of memory, and each using 1-2% of CPU at idle doing who knows what.

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Re:Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship contro... by Ekaros on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:49PM (#44916644)

I have Ubisoft Connect launching because one game (Trackmania). And it is most annoying piece of software on my computer. Popping up sometimes even in middle of gameplay... And it can not even correctly close itself, but instead threw an error...

These clients really have zero respect for users.

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