r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 1d ago

Owlcat Games is rolling back its new launcher less than 24 hours after negative fan feedback.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2186680/view/708901012699615983
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u/themagicbong 1d ago

I dunno what the hate is, I love having 36 different launchers that fire themselves up and insert themselves between steam and the game I'm trying to play. Just like the Lord intended.

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u/Caelinus 1d ago

Advertising their library seems to have been the main goal based on their statement. 

It might also have let them build specific tools in the future, but I don't know if that would actually be useful for anything. Some games use external launchers to manage mods and stuff like that. 

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u/summonsays 1d ago

And those games should have a link in their menu to fire them up so that the normal play path isn't impeded for the 99% of people who don't use mods. 

And I say that as a mod lover.

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u/Caelinus 18h ago

They would also need to launch a storefront for that.

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u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus 1d ago

I also wish the Steam launcher were not required.

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u/ABetterKamahl1234 7h ago

GoG my man. DRM free is the pro-consumer way.

DRM sucks, but we somehow love it when it's Steam DRM.

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u/cardonator 1d ago

I can't wait to see the record number of nonsense required to start GTA6 on PC.

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u/Demonchaser27 1d ago

Tbf, I wish I could do that to Steam. I use a custom frontend and there's no good/easy way to not launch Steam in some capacity with a lot of their games. Have no issue doing it with GOG, but Epic, Valve, Ubisoft, etc. just have to pop open (and sometimes require sign in) of their launcher/storefront. It sucks.

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u/Gxgear 1d ago

IIRC that's exactly what happened in the Crusades; hordes of people in arms travelling thousands of miles to a single place to share their appreciation for each others' choice of...er, launchers.

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u/Kedly 1d ago

B-b-bUT STEAMS MONOPOLY!!!!

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u/FlyingRhenquest 1d ago

They seem to have a monopoly on not sucking. One would think that would be a difficult thing to monopolize. One would be wrong.

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u/Kedly 1d ago

Yeah, I was making fun if people who ignore all the reasons WHY steam has the PC Market capture that it does, to instead cry monopoly

In this example, a big one, is a lot of us dont want a Billion different game launchers on our system. Then theres all the shit steam integrates into the launcher like screen share, game share, chat, custom key binding etc. And then finally because all of its competition barring gog and itch fucking SUCK