Comment on Owlcat Games rolls back Owlcat Launcher on Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader after fan complaints
ICastFist@programming.dev 23 hours ago
I’m frankly amazed that companies still insist on creating their own launchers, despite every company getting well deserved flak whenever they do it.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Everyone of them has an asshole in marketing thinking like
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Launchers are also trackers that motor where users interact with the software. Owlcat wants the telemetry data to sell as a side hustle. It’s like they don’t make games to be fun anymore; games are marketing tools.
ICastFist@programming.dev 22 hours ago
Even that dumb argument of theirs falls flat once you see that plenty of games use the main menu screen as a little ad space for their own store or similar games.
Onyxonblack@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Exactly! I really don’t like seeing social media crap on a game’s main menu. Puke.