[2K Launcher] Complete Sunset
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As of November 18, 2024, the 2K Launcher has been removed from every game that used it onEpic and Steam. Additionally, we also removed the “2K Launcher Beta”, a completely separatelauncher, from Si...

Thank god

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    118·
    8 days 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?

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 days 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.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      481·
      8 days 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

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        8 days 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.

        • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          If they can convert purchase within their launcher, they don’t pay Steam their cut. That’s it.

        • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          112·
          8 days ago

          Then they’d have to update the actual game, as opposed to just updating the launcher when a change needs to be made.

          Updating the launcher is quicker and cheaper.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        104·
        8 days 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…

    • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      282·
      8 days 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.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        29·
        8 days 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.

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          65·
          8 days ago

          Launchers allow you to change settings before having the game up, for example, which can be nice.

          Or you can change options after the game launches, like a normal game.

          • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 days ago

            A lot of times I just want to make a quick change for later without actually having to fire up the game. Even if I’m not interested in playing it anytime soon.

            Weird, I know, but I have ADHD so if I don’t do something the moment an idea pops into my head, within seconds I forget and the thought is lost forever. It’s so bad that I’ll often finish a sentence without having any idea how or why I started it.

      • Piing@feddit.orgEnglish
        36·
        8 days ago

        use --launcher-skip start argument for CDPR games

        BG3 also has the slightly different --skip-launcher

      • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        8 days 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.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      272·
      8 days ago

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

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2623·
        8 days 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…

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    8 days 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.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
      5·
      8 days 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?