Who is to say that the current state of Manual Start of this service will not change to Automatic Start in the future so that it really will run all the time in the background doing God knows what?Īnd again, what if all my other games start doing this? I have 100s of games in my Steam Library so potentially this would mean I would get 100's of new Windows Services! Ugh, that is just bad practise and a possible source of problems, slow downs and even security risks. Windows Services can run all the time in the background, even when the game is not open and also these DLL's will be loaded each time when Windows starts. The issue I have with Survarium is that it installs this game specific update function as a Windows Service! I have no other game that does this. After that it will not be active anymore. I have no problem with the fact that Survarium updates itself, many games do this and can update themselves automatically when you start the game and request an update.

Therefore the game has now been UNINSTALLED, at least until they stop using this game specific update service and start using Steam's update service, LIKE ALL OTHER STEAM GAMES DO! There you will find this new Windows Service: 'Survarium Steam Update Service'ĭescription: 'Enables the detection, download and installation of updates for Survarium-Steam Update Service.'

This is unacceptable.Ĭheck for yourself: goto Control Panel | System and Security | Administrative Tools | Services It would become a huge mess on my PC in no time with the 100s of games in my Steam library!Īnd how can I even be sure this new Windows Service can be trusted? For all I know it could monitor my every move or install some spyware. What if all my other games would start installing game specific update services as well? Why not use the normal Steam Update service through the Steam Client app? Seriously WTF, it's a freakin' GAME! Why would you install this as a Windows Service?This is completely unacceptable! I've discovered that Survarium installs a Windows Service named 'Survarium Steam Update Service' !

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