A launcher that launches a launcher that launches a launcher and then that launcher needs to update to launch a launcher that needs an update to launch the game but wait i need to login to the launcher to launch the launcher that i also need to login to to launch lauanahchhcha a dhsnhennamebrbjfbnsnsbr.
Piracy is jsut objectively better. Well unless you need game patches then its painful.
Paradox launchers are the worst. It takes them twice as long to boot up as the actual game does.
I remember that one time when my eu4 launcher crashed and when I tried to send a crash report through a crash reporter that popped up, it also crashed. I hate software
has anyone made a parody game where the whole thing is just an endless sequence of launchers? It sounds like it should be a thing
Like that one dunkey video where there's a million studio logos being shown at the beginning
microsoftflightsimulator2020.mp4
I love that game, but I've spent more time updating it than playing it.
We've been spoiled by Steam being generally pretty good and creating a brief pax where everything in the PC market was nice and standardized.
Now, we're seeing a bit of a return to the days where every company had to push their own proprietary bullshit along with their games.
Not to sound like a complete gamer chode but I refuse to get those free Epic games simply because I don't want to install more store frontends. Fuck off, I didn't install Origin and I won't install this either. Microsoft and their Game Pass can suck a fat one too
Steam, GOG's old school no strings attached installers + piracy are enough for me. Activision had the gumption to tie Crash Bandicoot 4 to the Overwatch/WoW launcher on PC. No thanks, I'll just go with FitGirl instead :data-laughing:
I grab every single free epic game I have then play almost none of them. I have like over 100 games on epic that I never play. I never put a credit card into the epic store.
It's weird, I'm so much less likely to play a game if I get it for free, subnautica being the only real exception.
It's probably the sunk cost effect. When you pay for something you feel like you have to get your money's worth.
Sometimes Epic gives away decent multiplayer games you can't pirate, DeadByDaylight, Battlefront 2, Among Us, Arc, Elite Dangerous, GTAV, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Rising Storm Vietnam, xcom 2
Otherwise, they've given away at least a dozen or so single player games worth a play.
I also refuse to download Epic. At least if a game's exe launches its own launcher I'm still managing it via Steam - I really don't want to have multiple lists of the games I own and have to keep multiple launchers running that hog my computer's resources. I still really want to play FF7 Remake but I won't touch it until it's on Steam.
I remember when things like Humble Bundles became a thing, I bought a couple to get games I wanted but felt bad for inflating my library with games I would literally never touch and never bought them again
I don't understand this one because it's not like when streaming services fractured and you have to pay for each one. It's all free shit to me with the minor inconvenience of a different login.
Incidentally they also treat devs way better than Valve does. If there's no way to buy direct from the devs then they'll get a bigger cut from Epic store sales than Steam sales.
Not all of them though. Paradox's launcher sucks despite handling mods.
Return to booting games at command line level :monke-beepboop:
Return to configuring EMS and XMS with boot disks and slowly filling your 75mb hard drive with virtual memory the longer you play Descent. :chomsky-yes-honey:
And you can't even get around the launcher because the game .exe launches it or requires you to be online.
Yeah, and then updating a launcher that launches another launcher that also needs updating. oh wait you already wrote that... just pirate GOG games or something.
You probably know this, but while GOG has a launcher, you don't have to use it
gog launcher is useful for installing and updating games but is not needed for actually running the games. The way it should be
Worth noting Steam games that don't use Steam's optional DRM can be launched just fine without Steam.
To me, the triple AAA stuff is long dead. I almost exclusively play titles from indie devs. And not because I consciously choose to, but because that's the games I enjoy.
The only time I pay for AAA is when it's for online multiplayer with my friend group, or buying the hardware for shit like console hacks or cool peripherals.
Otherwise it's freebies, piracy, emulation, and buying indie/small dev games.
The only good launchers are the ones built into the game that let you change resolution or other settings before fully launching the game, and can be disabled or bypassed.
the dozen companies that had a hand in creating and selling you the game need to first insert their wildly invasive drm and anticheat software into your computer, then you can play
Gog-games is pretty solid for everything on gog. Otherwise, yeah, it'd be sweet to have a huge compiler for patches. Sucks we don't have that yet.
