Steam has tweaked the process of accessing loose PC games or downloadable content to make it a little more comfortable, and it’s an update that has sparked a wave of happiness (or perplexity in some cases).
If you are a normal Steam user, you will have no doubt that if a game is loose on Steam and you need the title, to claim it, you still have no option to decide to play, which triggers the installation process. Then you can cancel this, after a short wait while the wheels turn a little, but it is a bit useless.
Now, Valve has brought in an “Add to Library” button that you can click to upload the product to its game library, and that’s it: you don’t want to cancel an installation you don’t want.
Similarly, with the DLC loose, when you catch it, the game is presented, and now that that happens, you can just click to get the content, and you’re done; an obviously less difficult and more convenient process.
There have been many celebrations about what is a small but useful fit here. In fact, our sister site PC Gamer (opens in a new tab) found that this had happened and said it was an “absolutely majestic” replacement for the better, not less.
Others, like Reddit, have sung similar praise, amid comments that Valve took long enough to do so, and that it should have happened years ago. Together with other players, they scratch their heads or shrug their shoulders to figure out why other people make a big deal out of it.
As one Reddit resident (opens in a new tab) said: “Wait, what?I mean, on the one hand, why did it take so long?On the other hand, is ending this conversation box so difficult? »
Well, to be honest, it wasn’t all bad, but it’s still an improvement in quality of life that we’re pleased to see on Steam, especially when there may be a lot of DLC to grab (which may simply mean that the user doesn’t care, that they have to suffer continuously while the game starts).
Darren is a freelancer who writes news and articles for TechRadar (and T3) on a wide variety of computing topics, adding processors, GPUs, diverse hardware, VPN, antivirus, and more. He has written about generation for almost 3 decades and written books in his spare time (his first novel, “I Know What You Did at the Last Supper”, was published through Hachette UK in 2013).
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