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    28 days ago

    I don’t defend the situation, I get along with it. Is it not possible for some people to have an issue with a product and still be able to use it?

    Launchers aren’t perfect, not even Steam as the pack leader. But they’re a **minor inconvenience **.

    I haven’t got a single game installed that uses nearly as few resources as all the launchers. Mass Effect LE alone is around 100 times bigger than Steam on my drive. That’s not bloatware, that’s a mini tool in comparison.

    Curseforge/Overwolf takes less than 500 MB of RAM, when I launch Minecraft through it the game takes 20 times the amount.

    Tell me where the problem is. If your computer can run and install the game it can do so with the launcher too. Some of us can deal with that even if it’s not a perfect situation.




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    28 days ago

    I agree, launchers are one superfluous piece of software that require additional resources.

    Steam takes half a gig of RAM. From my 32 gigs available.

    Also around 1 or 1.5 gigs on my drive. Many games take 50 to 100 gigs.

    It’s a minor inconvenience. If one can’t afford one gig for a launcher how would a game be installed anyway?



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    28 days ago

    Again, I got to play four AAA games for the price of a movie ticket. How many lifetimes do I have to “own” these games?

    I think I got my money’s worth out of the deal. Four big games for a tenner and people are still like "but you don’t really own them ". Yes, I know. It’s more like a very long rental.



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    29 days ago

    When playing modded games some rules of good practice don’t apply because of jank. It’s in the nature of things that aren’t designed to be modified. Specifically for my DA:I installation I count about 5 clicks and the game is launched. Compared to the hundreds of clicks in the game itself it’s a tiny inconvenience.

    But to be clear once more: I never claimed launchers and game or app stores are an ideal solution, especially concerning their abundance and varying quality.

    I want to play a certain game that requires a launcher, then I’ll either get that launcher or I won’t play the game.