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2K Launcher has been removed from Civilization VI on Steam and will not be used for Civilization VII (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago

Game launchers track user activity within the game.

lol wut? I don't need to install a game launcher to track your activity in game.

If you leave a launcher running in the background at all times then you're sending at the very least your current IP whenever the client does a poll.

I also don't need to install a game launcher to do that, either. It's just a lot easier to avoid having my process killed if that prevents the user from having "social features" like a friends list and chat, the standard shit.