Why Blender Steam Version?

[GTHell]

Is the only advantage is auto update?

[Capt Fuzzy]

Pretty much...

[Scre]

time gets registered

[Kamil]

How about plugins? in cloud?

[tripmix]

Originally posted by GTHell:

Is the only advantage is auto update?

If the last 3 - 4 updates are anything to go by. It doesn't even have that going for it.

[Lenny McLennington]

Your friends will know when you are doing blender.

[Mailer]

If Steam shuts down, Blender will do so too if you have the Steam version, so it really isn't worth having it. I only use it because of the reasons above and because I am an active steam user, and I trust steam not to crash too much.

[Hatman]

yea. But that reason can be a disadvantage too if you want an older version of blender or don't want to update it.

[Mailer]

Originally posted by 2D is better than 3D:

yea. But that reason can be a disadvantage too if you want an older version of blender or don't want to update it.

That's true, what with Nvidia and Blender not cooperating most of the time.
Thankfully my 770 is cooperating and I rarely consider updating my drivers because my Ge Force Experience barely works half the time anyway.

[Filipe]

Do you know what popular means? Well to be popular you need to be everywhere.

[sussin]

Originally posted by GTHell:

Is the only advantage is auto update?

I don't recommend it if you have a vive and people are using it while you use blender thats why I reinstalled it off steam

[Architector #4]

You can launch Blender.exe not inside Steam, by the way, and that doesn't force you to install updates or anything.
Also I found out about Blender's existence only because it was on Steam.

[Uradamus]

The main thing I like about using the Steam version is the usage tracking, it is nice being able to see how active I've been with Blender over the past 2 weeks in particular so that I can get a quick idea how productive/lazy I've been, lol. Right now it is over 90 hours, but a few weeks back it was like 12-20. >.<

I also like that it lets my friends know I am working. Most tend to avoid hitting me up with idle chat or links to time wasting videos/articles when I've got Blender running. Which is a nice little bonus.

Auto-updates are nice too, since I am pretty lazy about that stuff. Since I am on Linux I could have that with my package manager anyhow, so it isn't a big thing to me. Though I run Manjaro and that might be more likely to update to release candidates and such, which I don't really want most of the time. I'd rather just stick to whatever the latest stable release is, since I don't usually care about - nor need - the latest and greatest features being tested. (At least until they start pushing updates for modern real time viewport rendering that can use PBR style materials and such.)

[GTHell]

Yeah, I think time tracking is also one of the best features. Sometime seeing myself using some App for a long period of time give me back this feeling of being accomplishment.

[KittenCanaveral]

The Steam community is one benefit for some, also it's sorta free advertisement.

[Chiki]

i use the regular version you get from their site i tried to connect it to steam as a non steam game but it didn't work lol