Recent content by Beat Darwin

I couldn't agree with you more on this point. But I wonder, from the evidence at hand, whether Valve has it in them to do it? Hardcore code optimization is pretty far down the list of "fun" things to work on. How many people wheel their desks over to that specific cabal, even if Steam is the...

That's interesting, Omnomnick. I hadn't known about the Dota 2-only version of the Steam client for certain markets. Initially I was thinking this represents a much different use case than what I am suggesting, but then I realized it's actually very similar. Sometimes I just want access to the...

Thanks for the support, Trunk. And ditto to your point above. That is the primary motivation behind my suggestion. I started out by thinking "why shouldn't my digital licenses to games be transferable betwixt and between arbitrary client launchers?" (i.e., game licenses not locked to the...

I would like a version of Steam that I could load, when I wanted to, as an alternate to the main Steam client (on PC/Mac/Linux). This version would support game launching and possibly game maintenance, only. Since the only thing we "own" via Steam are licenses to execute the games we have...

I do believe I am ready for the drilled magnesium version of Steam.