Not who you were replying to, but I agree with him. Notifications - whether they were intended to or not, are way more intrusive in my usual workflow, and I wo

Not who you were replying to, but I agree with him. Notifications - whether they were intended to or not, are way more intrusive in my usual workflow, and I would posit the majority of people find it the same. This is down to the fact that the steam popups advertising games are in the same icon and styling as the rest of steam -> i.e. You alt+tab or click on your steam icon and close or view it as clearly a steam thing. It also pops up during first start only. A windows notification I find to be much more attention grabbing and not clearly defined as a particular program, and if I find it to be an ad, I'm immediately put out by this as I'm being advertised to by a program in my system tray, where I'm used to that being configuration info and/or notification of something minimising/complete etc. Any information they give me through the notification tab is now in jeopardy of being ignored because I've been taught that they are ads now. This isn't unique to steam for me, I'm totally used to programs opening up additional windows upon opening, but any programs that advertise through system notifications have long since bothered me.