2K Launcher Removed

[Player 2]

Good riddance

[MajorLeeHyper]

Originally posted by Groo the one:

Originally posted by 2k support:

Civilization VI on Steam had the launcher removed earlier this year, so no additional steps are needed.

Source: https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/34845053169939--2K-Launcher-Complete-Sunset

For what is the current update this case, on STEAM?

You just had to read a little further

On November 25, a follow-up update was sent out via Steam to make sure the 2K Launcher was fully removed. You may notice the 2KLauncher folder was replaced with a text file called 2kLauncherRemoved.txt. This file isn’t needed, and you can safely delete it!

Until today, the 2KLauncher folder was still in the game's install directory. Today's update removed it.

[a_pharaoh]

Nobody needs it.

[Overlord]

The most pointless launcher in gaming history perhaps

[Groo the one]

Originally posted by MajorLeeHyper:

You just had to read a little further

On November 25, a follow-up update was sent out via Steam to make sure the 2K Launcher was fully removed. You may notice the 2KLauncher folder was replaced with a text file called 2kLauncherRemoved.txt. This file isn’t needed, and you can safely delete it!

I struggle to find the part with "2kLauncherRemoved.txt", would you be so kind to post a link to your source? Above I linked to official 2k page, what explained manual steps to remove 2k launcher files, still on our rigs, past this update.

[KiritoSaoFan]

Finally.

[msor]

Launcher has been removed from a steam version of civ 6 long time ago.
There were nothing to fix.
But we still got this "update" that do nothing, refuse to do go and prevent a game to start from steam library. You must use exe file from game folder directly to start a game.

[SlasH]

Again? I thought this was already done some time ago

[MajorLeeHyper]

Originally posted by Groo the one:

Originally posted by MajorLeeHyper:

You just had to read a little further

I struggle to find the part with "2kLauncherRemoved.txt", would you be so kind to post a link to your source? Above I linked to official 2k page, what explained manual steps to remove 2k launcher files, still on our rigs, past this update.

The same page you linked, the 2K Support 2K Launcher Complete Sunset article. Read from the top of the page. It's the second paragraph

[Ziyinzhuangyang]

Great, even better that all the people who defended it are nowhere to be found now. Hopefully Square Enix remove their launcher from the single player Final Fantasy games next.

[SLG]

Originally posted by MajorLeeHyper:

Originally posted by Groo the one:

Source: https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/34845053169939--2K-Launcher-Complete-Sunset

For what is the current update this case, on STEAM?

You just had to read a little further

On November 25, a follow-up update was sent out via Steam to make sure the 2K Launcher was fully removed. You may notice the 2KLauncher folder was replaced with a text file called 2kLauncherRemoved.txt. This file isn’t needed, and you can safely delete it!

Until today, the 2KLauncher folder was still in the game's install directory. Today's update removed it.

Exactly it does not remove everything. I still had 2 folders that I deleted. I followed the instructions to remove them.

[MajorLeeHyper]

The T2GP Launcher folders are not in the games install directory, therefore cannot be removed by a steam update. The steam update removed the 2KLauncher folder from the games install directory. I'm guessing that folder contained the files used to install the 2K launcher.

The update did exactly what they said it would do, that's all I was pointing out.

[Groo the one]

Originally posted by MajorLeeHyper:

The same page you linked, the 2K Support 2K Launcher Complete Sunset article. Read from the top of the page. It's the second paragraph

Now I found it, thanks for clarification!

[-vűļçåņőqųąķė-]

The launcher caused 99 percent of crashes before mods.

[robotig]

One of Civ6's best updates ever, top tier patch content more like this pls

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Originally posted by ˅ǿlȼⱥҋǿҕȗӑꝁɇ:

The launcher caused 99 percent of crashes before mods.

Honestly, I'm just finding out about all these problems people had with the launcher now, and I'm just kind of scratching my head as to what you all could have been doing incorrectly to have it cause you all so many problems.

Granted, it's a Civ game, so it's always going to have some bug or quirk I figure, but the sheer amount of issues you all seem to have, just has me kind of awestruck to the point where I wonder how much of it was just pebkac issues. No offence, truly. I am curious about it.

Over the entire time the game has been out, I've had it crash maybe... 20 times? Maybe? And these were generally all much further into the games progress, like is more typical with 'good running' versions of civ. Note, I'm being kind of loose about what is a 'good' running game of civ. Again, bug fest usually. Beyond Earth is probably the best example of it.

Ultimately, doesn't really matter to me that the launcher is gone. Or that it was there to begin with, aside from the data collection part some talk about. That part is nice to see go away, generally. But the issues people have otherwise, I kind of have to ask what they were doing wrong to cause so many issues.

Then again, maybe I'm just lucky. But I tend to also go into the games ini files to fix whatever Sid couldn't do right the first time. I mean, most of the bugs and crashes that civ games tend to have, usually revolve around either an incorrect setting in the ini files, or incorrect permissions for things like file access for the game files. (I'm not kidding, it's such an easy fix. They just have to stop putting the game into the steam folder situated in the program files folder, which is automatically locked down permissions wise. It is so dumb. These two things make even Beyond Earth playable, usually. Sometimes still have some issues... but much less than before.)