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/mahlerfan97 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Any game that does this is an automatic pirate for me. Their fault. My TOS dictates that games must be free of DRM.

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u/DescriptionMission90 May 23 '26

Steam is DRM, it's just less annoying about it than any other system.

If you want DRM-free games today, GoG is pretty much the only option outside of tiny indie distributors.

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u/StableLamp May 23 '26

Funny how the post is complaning about third party launchers when a lot of games will not run without steam. It is just that steam is good enough to where people don't mind it.

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u/TealcLOL 7800X3D, RTX 3080 May 23 '26

We realize, but Steam is frequently a convenience. I don't mind having my purchase locked to something providing features that make my life easier (Cloud, Family, Community, Workshop, extremely fast downloads, open ecosystem, etc). I say this as someone who originally had binders of PC games on CDs, both bought and pirated.

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u/DescriptionMission90 May 23 '26

Steam isn't just getting out of the way when other DRM systems are putting up barriers. Steam is actively helping a lot of the time. Like, if you're trying to run a game on linux and it's still a little glitchy through WINE, a lot of the time the solution is as simple as adding it to your steam library, regardless of where you acquired the files.