WHAT THE, STEELSERIES? GG v116 is an absolute dumpster fire and I'm done pretending it's not.
I am so unbelievably sick of this cheap-ass, shitty bloatware you call the SteelSeries GG client. Seriously, is there a single QA tester in that entire building, or do you guys just roll dice to decide which core functionality you’re going to break next?
It feels like we cannot go **two updates**—hell, sometimes not even *one*—without some game-breaking, system-lagging, absolute clown-show of a bug popping up. And the worst part? You guys are HELLBENT on forcing these broken updates down our throats.
I have tried EVERYTHING to block this piece of crap from auto-updating. I went into my firewall and blocked every single .exe associated with SteelSeries—inbound AND outbound. I thought I had it cornered. But NOPE. This malware-adjacent software still finds a backdoor, phones home, and drags the newest pile of garbage onto my PC without my consent. It’s like you *want* to wreck your customers' peripherals just to watch us suffer.
Now let’s talk about this **MONSTROSITY of Update 116**.
Ever since this glorious update dropped, the GG client refuses to load properly. I open it, and what do I get? A blank, white, loading wheel of death for a solid **3 ENTIRE MINUTES**. Three minutes of my life I’ll never get back, just staring at a screen, waiting for your bloatware to wake up from its coma.
And when it *finally* decides to grace me with its presence? Where does it land? Not on Sonar. Not on Engine. It lands directly on that **SHITTY ASS, BRAND NEW, ABSOLUTELY USELESS "NEWS" TAB**.
Let me tell you my theory: **The NEWS tab is the root cause of all this glitching.**
I am 100% convinced that the client is desperately trying to load some garbage ad-ridden RSS feed or tracking pixel in the background, failing miserably, and holding the entire UI hostage while it throws a tantrum. Because guess what? Once the UI finally loads after that 3-minute eternity, every other tab works perfectly fine. Sonar? Fine. Engine? Fine.
But the NEWS tab?
**BLANK. COMPLETELY, UTTERLY BLANK.**
So it literally breaks the entire startup sequence just to show me a blank white square. Absolutely phenomenal design, guys. 10/10.
SteelSeries, if you are reading this: Stop trying to shove a half-baked news aggregator down our throats. Nobody asked for it. Nobody wants it. Just give us a lightweight driver that **works** and stop treating your paying customers like unpaid beta testers for your bug-ridden spyware.
Rant over. If anyone knows how to roll back to version 114 without this thing forcing an update behind my back, please drop a comment, because I am at my wit's end here.
**Edit:** And don't even suggest "Reinstalling" because I've done that 4 times already. It's not me, it's YOU, SteelSeries.
