Isn’t this about stopping games from being launched like this:
Launch Steam
Launch game, but instead…
It launches a launcher for the game.
That launcher launches the game
Going Launcher => Launcher => game.
That should be banned.
It sounds like what you’re interpreting it as is “Games that have their own or alternate launchers should be banned from sale on Steam” (e.g., games available on Epic, EA, etc. shouldn’t be available on Steam).
I’d agree that that’s anti-consumer. But if I buy the game on Steam, it shouldn’t feed me through an additional launcher. If I want to buy the game directly from elsewhere and that requires a different launcher, that’s perfectly fine.
Isn’t this about stopping games from being launched like this:
Going Launcher => Launcher => game.
That should be banned.
It sounds like what you’re interpreting it as is “Games that have their own or alternate launchers should be banned from sale on Steam” (e.g., games available on Epic, EA, etc. shouldn’t be available on Steam).
I’d agree that that’s anti-consumer. But if I buy the game on Steam, it shouldn’t feed me through an additional launcher. If I want to buy the game directly from elsewhere and that requires a different launcher, that’s perfectly fine.
No, the companies that need a login or are tracking you, will just need to move it into the game itself. Convenient, but fixes nothing
Launcher > Launcher > Game is grotesque. 2 different accounts and an internet connection required just to play a game you ““own””.
Fuck that shit
Girls’ Frontline 2 is basically a launcher you download on Steam, which then downloads the actual game