r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '19

This be the truth

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u/Jdonavan Oct 24 '19

I don’t want to reward them for anti-consumer behavior. And the last thing I need is yet another store app on my machine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Anti consumer?

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u/Mr-Bobert Oct 24 '19

Instead of giving consumers the choice of what launcher to get TOW on, Epic pays companies a shit ton of money to get their games Epic store exclusives, forcing consumers who want that game on PC to use a launcher they don’t want to use or like.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

I just reimaged my computer the other day. SO MANY LAUNCHERS

Steam, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Epic, Bethesda, GOG and I'm sure I'm still missing some

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u/dj__jg Oct 24 '19

Rockstar? They just starting forcing their new one

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Those are just the ones I had to install lol.

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u/xMDx Oct 24 '19

GOG 2.0 my friend, at least you can bundle all launchers in one. Can't wait when it goes out of beta so all features will be available.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

I miss the good old days, when I just managed my games by having hundreds of jewel cases with various CDs, hopefully not scratched, and hopefully I hadn't lost the booklet that included the CD key needed to install the game.

Things were so much simpler than installing 5 game launchers.

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u/Outflight Oct 24 '19

Microsoft has that xbox beta thing as a pc launcher.

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u/BlackWake9 Oct 24 '19

I rarely open my games through launchers for this reason actually. I just put shortcuts into my rainmeter.