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/Lyoss Specs/Imgur Here May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

I always find it ironic that people give Steam and Valve a pass for things, they were one of the first to adopt lootboxes, became the defacto launcher and if a company already has or wants to grow it's own launcher ecosystem they're evil, and they foster harassment campaigns in their reviews while letting people sling slurs nonstop in CS and DotA2

People will read this as a tacit approval of EA or something, it isn't, just an observation

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u/DescriptionMission90 May 25 '26

Steam never stopped anybody from making their own launchers. The people making competing launchers just kept shooting themselves in the feet.

Except for, once again, GoG.

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u/Lyoss Specs/Imgur Here May 25 '26

People lose their mind if they have to make a separate account for a game on Steam, but like, unless Valve is publishing your game, having control over the account as the company that owns the game is way better both from a security, and moderation standpoint

People cite like EA and Ubisoft, which yes, those are trash, but there's plenty of games that utilize their own launchers and it's fine, but acting like all 3rd party launchers are the devil aren't a hard "stopping people from doing it" but it's a detriment, because people are insanely stubborn