Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.
In my experience the launcher hate is less about the MMOs that actually are doing something relevant like updating and more the ubisofts and 2ks that are putting in a second layer of drm that can break and usually exists to hoover more data than they could otherwise.
Hey, I’m not going to stand here and defend everybody’s implementation. But I will say that the hate is not related to the implementation because, again, a bunch of these are entirely unintrusive (I know Ubisoft’s is just a pop up now and I think EA will do the same, but don’t quote me on that) and people rage about it anyway.
In my experience the launcher hate is less about the MMOs that actually are doing something relevant like updating and more the ubisofts and 2ks that are putting in a second layer of drm that can break and usually exists to hoover more data than they could otherwise.
Hey, I’m not going to stand here and defend everybody’s implementation. But I will say that the hate is not related to the implementation because, again, a bunch of these are entirely unintrusive (I know Ubisoft’s is just a pop up now and I think EA will do the same, but don’t quote me on that) and people rage about it anyway.
It’s become a console wars meme thing.