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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    10 hours ago

    Hallelujah. I don’t know why so many companies went down this route, particularly when it’s not the likes of Ubisoft or whatnot with their own desire to half-ass the attempt at making their own Steam. My guess for its removal is to better support Steam Deck, perhaps?

    • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Even CD Project Red added such shit. Instead of directly launching Witcher or Cyberpunk I now have to go through a(nother) launcher now. Pointless.

      Baldurs Gate 3 needed one from the beginning as well.

      I don’t get it.

      • Piing@feddit.orgEnglish
        7·
        1 hour ago

        use --launcher-skip start argument for CDPR games

        BG3 also has the slightly different --skip-launcher

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      35·
      10 hours ago

      Keeps users in their wallet garden. Marketers love shoving shit in users faces whenever they launch the game. Inside the game it’s bad for. To advertise whatever other garbage there is, on their launcher they try to grab your attention for their other crap

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 hours ago

        But see, that’s the thing. They’re just as capable of putting those ads in game too. I definitely would have more visibility on the ads just at the title screen than I would on a launcher I’m clicking through as fast as humanly possible.

        • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          7·
          6 hours ago

          Then they’d have to update the actual game, as opposed to just updating the launcher when a change needs to be made.

          Updating the launcher is quicker and cheaper.

        • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          If they can convert purchase within their launcher, they don’t pay Steam their cut. That’s it.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        …wallet garden? So…like a garden where they grow wallets for you to eat?

        I mean, if that’s in your taste palate, bone apple tea, I guess…

      • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        9 hours ago

        The game can collect data, if that’s what they’re after.

        My theory is that it’s all about advertising. It’s another point of contact with the consumer, and another opportunity to make sure every new release is presented to every potential buyer.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    8 hours ago

    So many old games from Ubisoft that I’d buy from GOG if they’d strip out their stupid launcher but here we are.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      9 hours ago

      Civ 7 comes out in a few months. Mafia allegedly later in the year. A new Borderlands is somewhere in there too.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 hours ago

        Civ…7 is coming out??? Oh! Oh! So I guess I’m just going to need a time machine??? Is that it??? Because I’m an adult now!!! Working 6 damn days a week!!! Explain how I can just stop time, and spend 72 hours straight fighting off Gondi and his aggressive ass nukes!!! Explain that shit to me!!! Already work 16 hours a day 6 days a week! Now I gotta defend the world from nukes through politics, and science, and WE ALREADY KNOW WE’RE ALREADY GOING TO BUILD AN ARMY AND BLOW EVERYONE UP!!! WHY WE GOTTA DANCE THIS DANCE???

        huffs…huffs…huffs…

        So how’s everybodys day going? Ready for Thanksgiving? I sure am looking forward to relatives you only twice a year getting drunk and talking politics 3 weeks after the election! What could go wrong???

        Hmmmmm…maybe butter knives are the sharpest thing I should put on this table…