WHY THE LAUNCHER

[TheRandomania_CO]

Cities skylines is a good game and I recommend it.BUT WHY DID YOU JUST HAVE TO ADD A LAUNCHER.

[spielerinchen]

greed doesn't know the ENOUGH

[Uber-n00bie]

Yes it's now more inconvenient and time consuming to start a new game, you'll be bombarded with advertisements for more Paradox crap before allowing you to play the game you already purchased, it's slower to load, and buggier (which I can all attest to first-hand). Yes it doesn't even uninstall after you uninstall Cities; you must know to uninstall this launcher separately or else it's on your hard drive forever, doing... ??? (classy). Of course it'll also collect various private info about your computer turning the game into its own form of malware/spyware (this one literally logs your keystrokes, which I can also attest to first-hand as my Mac OS warned while trying to install this update that this launcher ***contains A KEYLOGGER and I should not install it***), but none of this is even the worst of it. The worst part is *why* they do all this in the first place:

Exploitation. Plain and simple. The launcher exists to exploit you for your computer's information by collecting and selling it to whomever they please for marketing purposes. Paradox now will have an additional revenue stream thanks to all our private information collected by this new additional launcher. If they were being remotely fair about it, they'd at least now be charging us MUCH less for the game, its many expansions, and other DLC to compensate for all the money they're deceptively making off of their customer's backs. As it is now they're just shamelessly double-dipping in profits, and doing so off OUR backs, their paying customers and loyal supporters as if this game was freeware.

Some people will still be fine with this. Some don't care about being exploited. Others are gullible enough to believe 'it's fine' because Paradox told them it is. "This launcher is in your best interest! Paradox isn't a business, we're just your friend!" But the rest of us have been around long enough to know better, have a shred of self-respect, and have to work for a living -- none of us appreciate this.

The greed of Paradox never surprises me anymore.

[Uber-n00bie]

Originally posted by Poncho:

Because it simply makes sense for a great company to use there own platform.

I appreciate your troll responses mocking those gullible enough to defend this garbage. They've been pretty good. lol

[MarkJohnson]

I don't see how it's any different than what Steam or Cities: Skylines does already? This nis nothing new and we're way past the protesting stage. It should have been killed when Steam launched. It's too late now!

Actually, the revolt should have started with Cookies back in the 90s. That was the start of it all. Too many caved in and now we're stuck with it forever. This is just cookies 2.0!

[BGR]

Paradox is something else to deal with if y'all get my drift.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by BGR:

Paradox is something else to deal with if y'all get my drift.

Oh, we get it. It's no different than anybody else. It's not like it's something new, or something they aren't already doing.

[E]

It is just Paradox forcing their own launcher down CO's (and customers') throats, if anything.

They did this to their own games first (Hearts of Iron, Stellaris, Imperator etc.) and now they're probably doing the same to other companies that use them as publisher.

Why they are doing this, I don't really know. In their other game the new launcher took away a lot of good functionality like mod-sorting that original game launchers had. I also read around the forums that it killed the games on non-Windows platforms for a long while.

It runs without issue for me so I don't have that much issue with the launcher, but I don't like the constantly changing EULAs and increasing data collection attempts.

[Royce]

They just changed my mind with a simple deletion. Wow you guys really are that bad. My review went from good to horrible just like you.

[Khoren]

Please don't let this thread escalate like the last one guys.

When you want to get toxic or don't want to understand the other ones opinion, then you're wrong here.
Respect the opinion of others.

[Khoren]

If you're just searching for a way around it, here is one:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1976349559

[mggamesw]

Originally posted by Khoren:

If you're just searching for a way around it, here is one:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1976349559

it works! . You are my hero.