Say it with me now - P-A-T-C-H-E-S, like they do via launchers anyway…
Cool, now tell me how you update the game without every game shipping it’s own crappy updater/launcher?
Skv@lemmy.world 4 days ago
chunes@lemmy.world 5 days ago
By adding a new version to your download page.
SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Exactly the same as any software capable of self-update: it connects to servers, checks for updates, downloads and installs them.
TheDirtyBubble@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
The update could occur in game like it did before launchers were common. When you would enter the online/multi-player portion of the game it would inform you to update your game in order to use the online services. The game would then download and install the update with the game open then it would restart.
If you’re saying that all games would ship with a launcher because that’s the norm then I agree completely lol.
Skv@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And literally all, say, MMOs come with their little custom updater/version check/file integrity things anyway, but they don’t run in the background.