Re: Happy St. Nicholas Day!

On 10/12/2024 15:56, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

The big publishers own launchers have basically made a game a no buy for
me due to their history of just stopping you playing the single player
component of a game. My only Steam refund was because I just didn't
think that Battlefield 1 would have it's own launcher.

I haven't gone quite that far yet, to absolutely blacklist games just
because they use their own launcher, but it's certainly a
consideration when buying. One of the reasons I've cut back on Ubisoft
games (aside from the fact that they're such repetitive shit 😉 is
that I don't want to bother with UPlay. But if the game happens to be
something I'd want to play, I'd endure the client.

I kinda helps that the publishers that have their own launcher don't produce games that I can say I really want to play.