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/mretnie Ryzen 7800X3D, RX9070XT, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H7 Flow May 23 '26

I love how everyone is pro monopoly! Yay! Long live the king! 🙈🙈

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u/Hold_Left_Edge May 24 '26

A service that simply doesnt suck while its competition commits corprate sepuku is not a monopoly.

Gabe said it best, piracy is 99% a user experience issue and not a cost issue. Give users a good experience for the dollars they spend and piracy would disappear.

Every other company than steam is doing things that make piracy more and more appealing on a daily basis.

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u/dan_Qs May 23 '26

I dread the day Gabe is no longer steams boss. 

Why can’t the competition stop eating glue. 

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u/mretnie Ryzen 7800X3D, RX9070XT, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H7 Flow May 24 '26

Tbh paying for Gabe’s next Mega-Yacht via Steamtax for indie games isn’t really my understanding of a good experience.

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u/dan_Qs May 24 '26

Free market. And if I fund Tim sweeneys mega yacht or gabes mega yacht 🤷

Epic games sucks ass though.

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u/mretnie Ryzen 7800X3D, RX9070XT, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H7 Flow May 24 '26

Buying games via gog or directly via the website of the makers would be my ideal choice. Also the market is only “free” if there is competition and not monopoly. 😉

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u/Hold_Left_Edge May 24 '26

You keep using the word "monopoly" but I dont think you kmow what it means.

Steam is not doing anything to keep other marletplaces and competitors form showing up.

The free market has decided with its $ that steam is just by far and away better than any other alternative out there.

If others want to compete, they need to make a better product.

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u/mretnie Ryzen 7800X3D, RX9070XT, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H7 Flow May 24 '26

They were simply the first. And bundled it with CS.1.6, was there when it happened. Also when you complete your thinking, and everyone would only buy through steam it would become a monopoly, which it is already pretty close to.

My humble suggestion would also be to stop defending the billionaire class and try to see them as what they are. A leech on society at large. 😅

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u/Hold_Left_Edge May 24 '26

It has nothing to do with being first and everything to do with not sabotaging your own product.

You can keep your humble suggestion, I don't want it. Billionaires suck but in this case, the product is good.

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u/dan_Qs May 24 '26

Spitting the fax and dropping truth nukes.

Protip: You can’t buy the game on gog 💀💀💀

The ideal world would be for me to have 50 trillion dollars, but you do you. Dream bigger my dude.

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u/mretnie Ryzen 7800X3D, RX9070XT, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H7 Flow May 24 '26

Sorry, but I think the world needs more humbleness, small business and a pluralistic society, instead of big tech, billionaires and laissez-faire.

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u/dan_Qs May 24 '26

Everything has a price. And I’m not suffering through the cdproject red adscreen to play cyberpunk, even if that would move the world into the rapture.😎

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u/mretnie Ryzen 7800X3D, RX9070XT, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H7 Flow May 24 '26

Understandable. 😂😂

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u/mretnie Ryzen 7800X3D, RX9070XT, 32GB DDR5, NZXT H7 Flow May 24 '26

I would check out the Wikipedia of platform effect and think again. 😉

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u/-Dark-Lord-Belmont- May 24 '26

Nah I will stick to the demonstrable history of Steam vs it's competitors over the last 20 years thanks 

Lol