Loading time is one of the key metrics for every ecommerce site for good reasons. It is actually shocking that the biggest store for computer games was not optimized here.

Which is a really bad way to do things - yes, it’s not fun. But they have let hundreds of millions of people wait for years?

Kind of crazy for a company like Valve to have such low-hanging fruits around. They are printing money and should have the ressources to put some manpower into improving important things like the startup time of their shop.