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Originally Posted by Kikuchiyo
Stop the presses! Large updates use large bandwidth. I choose to only update my stuff when I want to play it, and that interfers with me wanting to play it right now!
The Steam client updates tend to be very small. If a client update is bringing your internet to a screeching halt you don't have a very good internet connection. Game updates do pause when you start a game that is played online. What I see likely happening here is people keep it off most of the time and don't let it do updates over night or something reasonable, and instead choose to basically do all the updates at the same moment they are ready to play a game. I.E. user error.
If you only start your car when it needs to be serviced it will take longer to get somewhere. That is not a fault with the car.
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Bottom line is, it interferes with his ability to use his PC in a way he sees fit and was possible to do so without the platform. So yes, i'd say his concerns are valid, especially since
none of the features any online platform brings to the table are necessary for most games to actually work. If it was, all the games on such platforms wouldn't be available in other versions but guess what, a lot of them are. It's clear the games can work on their own, so making things mandatory instead of optional is just a publisher being stubborn and nothing more.
So, a person who's got a certain PC configuration that's able to handle the game is marginalized because his PC can't run the extra fluff on top. He's damn right to be unimpressed with that.
All you guys in favor of this assume too much in thinking we all use our PCs the exact same way and if not, we should. It's not true, it's not going to happen anytime soon and all it will do is divide the community and cost sales. Maybe the extra sales from such platforms will offset this, maybe not, we'll just have to wait and see.