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Making Call of Duty a Battle.net exclusive was apparently a 'resounding failure' (archive.ph)
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[–] Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm the odd one out but I like the individual game launchers. Having everything grouped into steam, epic, ubisoft, etc can be convenient but then you run into issues when those services have downtime. Not to mention they include lots of bloat (if I want a program to download and run 1 specific game, I don't want to download an entire store, library, forums, and social network along with it).

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The issue is when the launcher for that one game is also a launcher for a bunch of other games you don't want, is otherwise unnecessarily bloated, and full of ads....

May as well just Steam....

Edit: I don't mind a launcher for a game, if it's just for the one game. Do me some updates and news about happenings in game while it installs? Cool, I can dig.
Try and shove 7 other games down my throat and sell me a bunch of shit, have a launcher that's unnecessarily large for basically being a download/install manager? Get fucked.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

you run into issues when those services have downtime.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

steam, epic, ubisoft, etc you run into issues when those services have downtime.

I don't think lumping steam in with epic and ubi is valid. I can't recall any significant downtime on steam in the years and years I've used it. Even if my internet is down, my locally installed games are still functional.

they include lots of bloat (if I want a program to download and run 1 specific game, I don’t want to download an entire store, library, forums, and social network along with it).

Steam is actually just a web browser. The store and forums and such are just web pages. You're not downloading anything proprietary to steam. You can do the same in firefox or whatever.

I'm a little confused at your perception of things. I don't see things that way at all.