LAUNCHER SHOULD BE BANNED!!!

[XeeB]

Recently playing games become more and more frustrating for me,
I'm using BPM almost 100% most of the time.
BPM on TV is ugly mess, full of launcher bloatFest on top of Steam and DRM.
The launcher keep growing everyday, this is getting out of control.

- Paradox Launcher - Surviving the Aftermath
- Larian Launcher - Divinity Original Sin 2
- Ubisoft Connect - 13 Games in my Library
- EA Origin - 8 Games
- 2K Launcher - X-COM 2 & Chimera Squad, Mafia Remake
- Rockstar Social Club - GTA5, LA Noire, Max Payne 3
- Warframe Launcher
- Black Desert Launcher
- Bless Unleashed launcher
- Frontier Launcher - Elite Dangerous
- Neocore Launcher - Van Helsing etc etc

Why you guys at Valve is so lazy, please do something about this.

[EDƎN]

This is PC gaming now
Even consoles don't have to deal with this lol

[Cybergoth Raccoon]

This is why piracy is rising. All I can suggest is to stop buying games that do this and to request refunds on the ones that add it post-release. It's especially detrimental for Steam Deck and Linux gaming in general as they can cause a lot of headaches that don't need to exist.

And it's not really Valves fault but it would be nice if they implemented a rule that disallowed third party launchers or something.

[YUSUF MİROĞLU]

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[Vinz Clortho]

Several games I own can no longer be played due to problems with launchers.

X-Com was one of my favourite games, hasn't worked on Windows 10 since the 2K launcher came out but the devs never bothered to do anything. In fact as a final insult they continue to update the launcher so I get messages saying X-Com is being updated, but it never is lol.

[GuRu Asaki]

Originally posted by XeeB:

Recently playing games become more and more frustrating for me,
I'm using BPM almost 100% most of the time.
BPM on TV is ugly mess, full of launcher bloatFest on top of Steam and DRM.
The launcher keep growing everyday, this is getting out of control.

- Paradox Launcher - Surviving the Aftermath
- Larian Launcher - Divinity Original Sin 2
- Ubisoft Connect - 13 Games in my Library
- EA Origin - 8 Games
- 2K Launcher - X-COM 2 & Chimera Squad, Mafia Remake
- Rockstar Social Club - GTA5, LA Noire, Max Payne 3
- Warframe Launcher
- Black Desert Launcher
- Frontier Launcher - Elite Dangerous
- Neocore Launcher - Van Helsing etc etc

Why you guys at Valve is so lazy, please do something about this.

Now, your starting to get it...

At least someone finally is starting to get why I never liked STEAM from the Start...

This stuff up above... Is a lot to do with it,
& also why I really just hate the Digital Market as a whole... It's like Movie Streaming today...

Everyone, thought it would be all 100% on NetFlix, then came Competitors, as well as Destructive Negative Platforms, & everyone just started hating it after that...

This is what happened to Gaming, now...

Everyone thought it'd all be on STEAM, but
nope, & Valve isn't making it any easier, either...

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I watch Free TV through
DVD's, BluRays, & 4K...
(Anything From Blk/Wht To 4K 2017)

I skipped the whole Streaming Generation...
-- Too Many Problems...

Sadly? I can't do the same
with Gaming, though, :(
-- Despite Too Many Problems...

I have gotten good
enjoyment for a while, though...

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"This is why piracy is rising."

I was never Pro Piracy, but after all today stuff going on with the Gaming Industry? I honestly
am not surprised that it's rising like this...

It actually is partially Valve's Fault...
-- They & EA / Origin Started The Whole Overlay UI Thing
-- Valve / STEAM Started The Whole Cross Gen Overlay Thing
-- The Customers Are To Blame For Pushing An All Digital Market
-- NetFlix Is To Blame For The All Digital Streaming
-- SJW Women Are To Blame For Ruining The Media Markets
-- The Woke Children Are To Blame For BS Gaming Social Problems...


Ya, theres a huge Market to Blame for this,
it's not all one thing / Person you can Blame it on...

In any case, i've always been against it for the very reason, if things got into the wrong hands, & those hands started ruining everything... Yet, that's exactly what happened, today, oO

[XeeB]

Why is Valve allowing 2K to do this?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/8870/discussions/0/3430075523248858999/?ctp=5

[XeeB]

https://www.pcgamer.com/2ks-quality-of-life-change-for-bioshock-is-that-linux-users-cant-play-it-anymore/

[Rage]

yeah this crap is out of control, updating old games with new launchers is tantamount to false advertising and taking away a perfectly functional product.

[GuRu Asaki]

Originally posted by Rage:

yeah this crap is out of control, updating old games with new launchers is tantamount to false advertising and taking away a perfectly functional product.

Your exactly right, it is out of Control...
-- It's a bigger mess on STEAM, because STEAM is such a huge Market today, & it's becoming a Platform that is out growing the Developers, & Creators of it in a really bad Negative way...

It's overloading with Bugs, & eventually, it's gonna burst, & collapse on it's self, & no more STEAM, -_-

I wouldn't even doubt the Internet as a whole might Overload at some point, which likely would cause Peoples Wallet Funds to Vanish into nothing, oO

-- Everyone Always Online Everywhere?
-- All Your Money Digitally holding on a Server Somewhere, & only so few Companies running it all?

If a Server crash happens, there goes your whole life down the Tubes in an Instant, oO

No Maintenance & No Optimizations make
all this seem way too fishy for my trust lvl in moving forwards with any of this...

Just saying... -_-

If Piracy really is rising over this?
-- I won't blame anyone for it...
-- If I was taken to Court over it?
-- I would not be in Defense, i'd be
in Court with a bunch of Evidence
to Counter them instead, so as far
as i'm aware? Unless Valve & the
Gaming Industry wants to bring
War to the Courts, & think they
can actually beat us, with their
supposed Trillion $$ Company,
& Billions In The Industry?

They probably can't do anything about it...