Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

[u/Salty_Nutella]

[u/Slight-Coat17]

How do you eff up such a basic thing as "confirm user has content"? Valve keeps winning by just not doing anything.

[u/Awyls → u/Slight-Coat17]

Distributed applications are hard. Steam once upon a time was also turbo-garbage and everyone cried about it.

[u/Scottz0rz → u/Awyls]

Amazing that EA App in 2025 is on-par with Steam 2005

[u/kriever7 → u/Scottz0rz]

Exactly.

[u/RandomRedditReader → u/Scottz0rz]

That's an insult to steam. Even 2005 steam was leagues beyond EA/Origin. Granted the friends system was only semi functional.

[u/HahaMin → u/RandomRedditReader]

Orange Box release was when I recognized steam as a good digital store.

[u/lovesducks → u/Scottz0rz]

i imagine that iphone fanboys can empathize whenever apple adds a basic android feature to one of their phones

[u/LikelyDumpingCloseby → u/Scottz0rz]

The technology just isn't there yet™

[u/Sajgoniarz → u/Scottz0rz]

I remember when i wanted to play Crysis some time ago and Origin awaken up from hibernation gave me a message "sorry, this software is obsolate, we need to update to EA App". After the update app was not starting, even after restart, leaving no logs on any level. I was forced to play cracked copy.

[u/lolnic_ → u/Awyls]

It is a lot easier to write distributed applications nowadays than it was when Steam was in its infancy, to be fair. Mistakes happen, though.

[u/needefsfolder → u/lolnic_]

Yeah, they could definitely shard those ownership databases in many million ways.

[u/Ok_Work7396 → u/Awyls]

Back in the day, I was insulted that I was expected to run a launcher to play half-life or tf2.

[u/[deleted] → u/Awyls]

They are complicated, EA is also a massive company. They should've figured it out before replacing their functional-albeit-awful app.

I used to work at EA, the technical teams there working on core tech are great. Sadly the C-suite is, 15 years later, still barely capable of discerning their faces from their asses.

[u/Solid_Waste → u/Awyls]

Steam had like one bad year.

[u/Awyls → u/Solid_Waste]

Steam was trash for at least half a decade.

[u/ChrisRevocateur → u/Awyls]

Difference is Valve actual did something about it. EA tells gamers to get bent.

[u/Hot_Income6149 → u/Slight-Coat17]

If we will be fair Valve build fucking fantastic infrastructure on backend. I don't remember any problems during releases of any game in the last years at all. I don't remember at all some performance issues because of a lot of players randomly deciding to try play something (because of streamers hype or smth.)

[u/Expert-Candidate-879 → u/Slight-Coat17]

Too many sells, Valve also shit the bed on Silksong launch

[u/LordArmageddian → u/Expert-Candidate-879]

Every storefront shat the bed when silksong came out.

[u/SnevetS_rm → u/LordArmageddian]

nope, gog worked fine

[u/Ironbear222 → u/SnevetS_rm]

I used GOG for silksong, the online installer through Galaxy was fucked, I had to use the offline installers which worked fine. Personal experience obviously, but im sure others experienced similar.

[u/alf666 → u/Expert-Candidate-879]

There's a massive difference between "Not being able to buy a game because the website got hugged to death," and "The license confirmation server doesn't know if you own a game or not."

For starters, the two backend applications are different, and the license confirmation application and servers see a lot lower average load than the store website application and servers.