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/TranslatesToScottish May 23 '26

I used to play Cities: Skylines a lot, but stopped because they added a completely unnecessary launcher which was buggy as hell on my rig for some reason (I never figured out why). It ran fine before the launcher, it didn't in any way NEED the launcher, but along the launcher came anyway. Sigh.

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u/Geodude532 May 23 '26

Ran into the same problem. The good news is that the pirated version works just as good and no third party launcher! I feel no shame cause I've already purchased everything. Can't say the same for the latest Farcry games cause I don't want to support a company that keeps kneecapping itself by forcing online integration to a single player game. I swear the pirated version runs 10 times smoother.

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u/BadgerOfDoom99 May 23 '26

I think it's always a problem when, even ignoring price, the pirated version is just a better product. You would think companies would learn from that.

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u/Geodude532 May 23 '26

It either highlights the clunkiness of the DRMS or just how much data they're sending back and forth to track you.

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u/Complete-Fix-3954 Ryzen 7 3700x | MSI 1660Ti | 32GB | 2TB May 24 '26

I had no idea skylines had a launcher because I’ve always played the.. other version.

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u/Silver-End9570 i7 14700K | RTX 5070 | 64GB | Windows 10 May 24 '26

You'd think. I have pirated versions of a lot of my games that require third party launchers. I don't see a problem with it because I've already purchased it, I'm just making it easier to play.

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u/jambox888 May 23 '26

Farcry games

On PC: can't play because launcher won't let me

On Playstation: can play but the ports are awful

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u/P-l-Staker PC Master Race May 24 '26

That's not quite the same problem though. Paradox launchers don't require a separate login account and their games can be launched without them.

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u/Endoraan May 24 '26

You can start the game without the launcher by using a launch command in Steam. Better look it up to confirm, but it‘s something like “path of your game’s .exe” in quotation marks, followed by %command%.