Steam has tweaked the method of grabbing free PC video games or DLC to make it a bit extra handy, and it’s a change which has been met with fairly the outpouring of happiness (or bewilderment in a couple of instances).

In case you’re an everyday Steam person, you’ll probably recall that if a recreation is free on Steam and also you need the title, to say it, you haven’t any selection however to elect to hit play, which fires up the set up course of. You possibly can then cancel out of that, after a brief wait whereas the cogs whir a bit, however it is a little bit of pointless faffing about.

Now, Valve has launched an ‘Add to Library’ button which may be clicked so as to add the product to your video games library, and that’s that – no messing round canceling an set up you don’t need is required.

Equally with free DLC, when nabbing that, the sport is launched – and now fairly than having that occur, you’ll be able to simply click on to seize the content material, and also you’re carried out; a clearly simpler and extra handy course of.

Evaluation: Leaping for pleasure amidst bouts of head scratching

There’s been a great deal of celebration about what’s successfully a small – however helpful – tweak right here. Certainly, our sister website PC Gamer (opens in new tab) noticed that this had occurred and declared it was an ‘completely majestic’ change for the higher, no much less.

Others on the likes of Reddit have been singing comparable praises, amidst feedback that it took Valve lengthy sufficient to do that, and it actually ought to’ve occurred years in the past. With different avid gamers are scratching their heads or shrugging their shoulders about why some persons are making such a giant deal out of this.

As one denizen of Reddit (opens in new tab) put it: “Wait, what? I imply on one hand, why did it take so lengthy? On the opposite, closing that dialogue field was that arduous?”

Nicely, in equity, it wasn’t an particularly massive deal, however that is nonetheless a top quality of life enchancment we’re glad to see occur on Steam, significantly when there could be an entire heap of bits of DLC to choose up (which then would possibly imply the person doesn’t trouble, fairly than having to repeatedly endure the sport being began up).

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