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I just wish to understand why they need an application update so often to what should be a simple distribution product. Do they hard code item availability or s
by Shivetya 10y ago
I just wish to understand why they need an application update so often to what should be a simple distribution product. Do they hard code item availability or such?
- spatulon 10y agoThere have been 12 updates in the last 12 months - do you really consider that to be "so often"? Anyway, there's a detailed changelog[1] for all the updates, so you can have a look at the kinds of things they change. [1] http://www.steampowered.com/platform/update_history/index.php http://www.steampowered.com/platform/update_history/index.ph...
- zerocrates 10y agoA fair number of those updates go out 2 or 3 times with little fixes but the same "release notes," so that's not a particularly accurate count of the number of times Steam will want to update.
- oblio 10y agoAh, the good ole, "I could write that in a weekend" :) Steam has a: - bundled web browser - a messaging client with a decent set of features - the whole "simple distribution product" - probably tons of other things I'm forgetting right now - and everything included is obviously network facing, ergo vulnerabilities, ergo security patches