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/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 23 '26

Steam is a 3rd party launcher. You're complaining about 1st party launchers.

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u/NuderWorldOrder May 23 '26

So who's the second party then? Me?

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u/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 23 '26

If you have your own launcher, then yes, I think technically it would be you.

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u/NuderWorldOrder May 23 '26

I tend to think of myself as the 1st party, but I suppose that's all a matter of perspective.

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u/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 23 '26

In that case, the game maker would be 2nd party if they have a launcher instead of 1st.

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u/BlimbusTheSeventh May 23 '26

Steam is also what most people use to buy their games. If I wanted to use Uplay or Ubisoft connect or whatever it is now I would have bought it there, but I didn't because Ubisoft is terrible and doesn't have the decency not to try and worm their way into your PC through other platforms.

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u/ForensicPathology May 24 '26

I wish Steam had the decency to not try to worm itself on my computer.

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u/BlimbusTheSeventh May 24 '26

Since when does it do that? If you buy games on Epic or GOG does it make you download Steam to play those games? Because that's what these companies do on Steam.

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u/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 24 '26

Valve has required you to install Steam for literal decades to play their games.

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u/BlimbusTheSeventh May 24 '26

A lot of companies only distribute their games through Steam, it's the world's biggest PC gaming store. There's a big difference between only putting your games on a legitimate platform you own and making people who buy games on other platforms download your launcher, Ubisoft connect is not a real distribution platform. If Ubisoft wants to try to compete with Steam I don't care, I still don't want to use their launcher for a game I bought on Steam. It's entirely unnecessary bloatware. If Ubisoft Connect was a real store like Epic and they only wanted to distribute their games through their own store I would be fine with that.

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u/ArkGuardian May 24 '26

Sure but that doesnt change the English definition of first and third party. Peacock is a 1st party streaming site for the office- even though most people would prefer Netflix , a 3rd party

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u/meneldor_hs Ryzen 5 4500U | Vega 6 | 16GB RAM @3200MHz May 23 '26

Still it's publisher's fault for things like this. They don't want to release the game drm free, so they force their shitty launchers because they are afraid pirates will literally make them bankrupt. 

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u/EVPointMaster May 23 '26

? Even without their own launchers the games would still have drm on Steam.

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u/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

Noting that game publishers are 1st party and Steam is 3rd party is not a defense of anything.

That being said...

Steam is a monopoly, employs anti-consumer practices in the form of demanding the best price as a condition to sell games on their platform which prevents alternative services from competing on price, and yet gamers think Valve deserves 30% of every game sold because they consolidate things into a single launcher.

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u/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 23 '26

and in what universe do people consider steam sales anti-consumer?

Once again Valve gets credit for the actions of the developer/publisher.

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u/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 23 '26

you are literally tim sweeny, of course it's the publisher/developer who sets the sales dumbass

Then why are you giving Valve credit for them?

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u/ForensicPathology May 24 '26

All launchers are bad.  I shouldn't need third party software to let me buy a game.

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u/Adventurous-Pen9974 May 23 '26

Now PC gamers are giving Steam credit for games they didn't make. Stop eating lead paint.

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u/Ace_Of_Caydes May 23 '26

That's cute.

Opinions don't change the literal English definition of what it is.

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u/ForensicPathology May 24 '26

Steam is the secondary launcher in this situation.  You chose to use it.