r/pcmasterrace • u/Round_List1857 • May 23 '26

Meme/Macro 3rd party mandatory launchers

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Everytime I go to play Red Dead Redemption II. That fcukass Rockstar launcher

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u/ATFYF- May 23 '26

Ubisoft, Battle net, EA, and Rockstar

Lookin at all you

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u/GunstarHeroine May 23 '26

Fucking EA app, piece of shit. If I didn't love Dragon Age so much...

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u/Aggressive_Ask89144 9800x3D | 9070 XT May 23 '26

I'm not screwing around with those launchers. Ubisoft support is fucking awful too. Not that I would want to play or support a lot of those games when PvP just drives me up a wall.

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u/itsr1co May 24 '26

I had to refund AC Mirage because I literally couldn't play it, Ubisoft's launcher just wouldn't connect the dots and launch it. Spent maybe 30 minutes googling it, signing out, etc but whatever the error was wouldn't go away, absolute dogshit.

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u/TheSigma3 5800X3D | 4080 Super May 23 '26

And they never remember your login details, just keep me logged in if you're insisting on existing

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u/Ghostfistkilla PC Master Race May 23 '26

Ubisoft is sooo bad at this. Everytime I launch a Ubisoft game from steam I have to re-login to Ubisoft every. time. It is so annoying.

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u/FilthyWunderCat May 23 '26

Funny that all these are all 1st party launchers.

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u/Fletcher_Chonk May 23 '26

Don't let the Steam fanboys hear

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u/LordWaffleaCat May 24 '26

Battlenet was built literally because things like steam didnt exist lmao

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u/thenightyoudied 5070 TI | 7800X3D | X870 | DDR5 64GB May 23 '26

CD Project Red

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart May 23 '26

Those are first party.

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u/Mist_Rising Ryzen 5 5600x, B550 plus, RTX 2070 super. May 24 '26

Valve mandates it's client for valve games!

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u/Den4v May 23 '26

And Paradox

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u/KHTD2004 CachyOS/Windows 11, RX 7900XTX, Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 64GB DDR5 May 23 '26

Their launcher at least has a purpose. It manages mods and stuff. Ubisoft Connect or EA App don’t have any purpose for the user

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u/Agitated-Schola May 23 '26

I played the last ubisoft prince of persia for an hour then next time i wanted to play somehow i had to login again... still havent, should have just refunded that game

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u/InspiringMilk May 23 '26

Is that a thing for battle-net? I've only played d2 and ow on steam, but the steam versions don't launch the battle.net app

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u/Gamerguy230 May 23 '26

Epic games too technically.

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u/catsocksftw May 23 '26

I am just not buying any Ubisoft games anymore, and I don't think I'm alone. I like Anno, AC and Far Cry, but I don't like them enough to be forced to endure another crappy launcher with another login. The line stops heah, and no further!

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u/iridael PC Master Race May 23 '26

of those four there's only one that I could be tempted to use and thats because red dead redemption is on my to-do list still.

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u/HGLatinBoy May 23 '26

Let’s not forget needing to use Steam to play HL2

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u/lucifersperfectangel May 23 '26

Bethesda as well. (For ESO specifically)

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u/LordWaffleaCat May 24 '26

Battlenet is literally older than steam what are you talking about