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.
Good point, but it could be argued to be a different case where the secondary launcher only runs silently in the background to support running the game.
vs. something else that pops up and is trying to get you to sign up for an external account
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.
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
Wouldn’t that also count for Emulators?
Good point, but it could be argued to be a different case where the secondary launcher only runs silently in the background to support running the game.
vs. something else that pops up and is trying to get you to sign up for an external account