Neo@lex wrote:
Also Steam isn't bloatware you just have a shit PC
ok. What I meant when I said 'bloatware' was that I just dislike the entire fact of having to get Steam up and connect to my account. Steam can be awfully slow at times which makes me feel like I'm running it on my old shitty PC that's still running Windows XP.
I don't hate Steam, but still; osu! seems better off without it; plus I believe osu! is getting increasingly popular even without the help of Steam. Wasn't it only about 1~2 years ago when the average amount of users online was around a thousand or something? I can't remember for certain (nor did I bother remembering), but still the amount of osu! users has drastically increased since.
Also, as far as I knew, the games that were on Steam required Steam to be running in the background before playing the actual game, hence why a lot of them are launched from URL commands like
steam://rungameid/440. For example, when I bought and installed Civilization V from the supplied disc (which was developed by Firaxis Games and has no relations to Valve whatsoever), it auto-downloaded and installed a copy of Steam for me, and whenever I wanted to launch said game, steam would be required to power it up, which surprised me when playing it at the first time. Well, now I know elsewise.