> I find the Steam client does it's job of launching games particularly well. The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait be

> I find the Steam client does it's job of launching games particularly well. The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait before being able to launch a game. >It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them, Yeah, it opens the webpage inside the app. Any browser would do the same. > and keeps them up to date in the background. The steam client has no such feature: it only updates games IN THE FOREGROUND. There's no service or deamon that does anything in the background.