2k Launcher has been fully removed from all games

Comments

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hallelujah. I don’t know why so many companies went down this route, particularly when it’s not the likes of Ubisoft or whatnot with their own desire to half-ass the attempt at making their own Steam. My guess for its removal is to better support Steam Deck, perhaps?

  source

  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Keeps users in their wallet garden. Marketers love shoving shit in users faces whenever they launch the game. Inside the game it’s bad for. To advertise whatever other garbage there is, on their launcher they try to grab your attention for their other crap

    source

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But see, that’s the thing. They’re just as capable of putting those ads in game too. I definitely would have more visibility on the ads just at the title screen than I would on a launcher I’m clicking through as fast as humanly possible.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      …wallet garden? So…like a garden where they grow wallets for you to eat?

      I mean, if that’s in your taste palate, bone apple tea, I guess…

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Even CD Project Red added such shit. Instead of directly launching Witcher or Cyberpunk I now have to go through a(nother) launcher now. Pointless.

    Baldurs Gate 3 needed one from the beginning as well.

    I don’t get it.

    source

    • Piing@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      use --launcher-skip start argument for CDPR games

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some games include launchers for practical reasons. Launchers allow you to change settings before having the game up, for example, which can be nice. They also sometimes can do mod management, though this is less common. Paradox does mod management through the launcher, for an example of that.

      Usually the launchers suck though and only slow things down, but you can also usually use an argument to skip them.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Data. Simple as.

    source

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What data? Surely the game itself would be just as capable of transmitting that.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The game can collect data, if that’s what they’re after.

      My theory is that it’s all about advertising. It’s another point of contact with the consumer, and another opportunity to make sure every new release is presented to every potential buyer.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At last we won’t have a repeat of mass effect legendary.

    Launch steam to play. Which launches Origin, which launches the mass effect launcher which is where you decide which game to play.

    So damn annoying, I think I made shortcuts to the exes to bypass most of that shit.

    source
  • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    $$$$$

    source
• HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  source
• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So many old games from Ubisoft that I’d buy from GOG if they’d strip out their stupid launcher but here we are.

  source

  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Isn’t GOG the epitome of “just ignore the launcher and click on the main exe yourself”? Or are you bemoaning that these games aren’t on GOG?

    source

    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The later, I want these games decrapified if I’m going to spend money on them.

      source
    • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can always use the GOG Galaxy launcher!

      which I never use

      source
• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  are there any 2k games left worth playing?

  source

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Civ 7 comes out in a few months. Mafia allegedly later in the year. A new Borderlands is somewhere in there too.

    source

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Civ…7 is coming out??? Oh! Oh! So I guess I’m just going to need a time machine??? Is that it??? Because I’m an adult now!!! Working 6 damn days a week!!! Explain how I can just stop time, and spend 72 hours straight fighting off Gondi and his aggressive ass nukes!!! Explain that shit to me!!! Already work 16 hours a day 6 days a week! Now I gotta defend the world from nukes through politics, and science, and WE ALREADY KNOW WE’RE ALREADY GOING TO BUILD AN ARMY AND BLOW EVERYONE UP!!! WHY WE GOTTA DANCE THIS DANCE???

      huffs…huffs…huffs…

      So how’s everybodys day going? Ready for Thanksgiving? I sure am looking forward to relatives you only twice a year getting drunk and talking politics 3 weeks after the election! What could go wrong???

      Hmmmmm…maybe butter knives are the sharpest thing I should put on this table…

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Civ VII is $160 CAD for the full version though. 😬

      source
  • Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Xcom 2 is the only game that comes to mind here.

    source
  • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not new but I like civ V. Glad they are removing the launcher.

    source
• Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Praise be to Yevon! Now do the other ones.

  source

  • Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Stay away from the summoner!

    source

    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nooooooo!

      source
  • zerozaku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Happy cake day!

    source

    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Huh, didn’t even realize that. Guess it’s time to party! ヽ(✧ω✧)ノ

      source
  • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ieyui
    Nobomeno
    Renmiri
    Yojuyogo
    Hasatekanae
    Kutamae

    source
• hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nice.

  source
• JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  🥳

  source