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i'd be cool with launchers being made illegal. They do nothing anyway.
Bye bye Steam. No more of that easy proton integration.
F you will be missed. Too bad they dont like, sell games.
...except manage the game's environment, download and install local files and updates, validate those files to make sure they're not compromised, provide an API for service integration in games, manage middleware like Gamescope or Wine...
It would be like banning all loud and annoying freight trucks inside city limits, and then wondering why food doesn't show up in stores anymore.
steam is already a game launcher bruh.
There are alternative launches like heroic which don't quite do the same thing, but even then you could still easily validate the game files without a launcher, they have the technology to do that lmao.
GOG is also really popular and literally just gives out .exes, a lot of people really like it.
Also steam is also a games marketplace, you can buy games on it?
But my achievements...!
(I'm serious about this.)
Can be displayed in-game :3
a lot of games have integrated achievements. Steam just displays them externally.
The only useful thing launchers ~~can~~ used to do is adjust things like display settings that require reboot. Basically an INI config GUI.
This was more common back in the day probably due to the game engines. More less games require restart in recent years but that could be due to me playing more indie games and less AAA titles.
Edit: wow. Downvote much.
those launchers i'm ok with, because they don't ask me to log in, or take twelve minutes to start up, or try to promote a game, it's literally just a pre launch menu. That's chill.
Wow I got downvoted.
Yes I agree that launchers mentioned here are the online connected and required ones.
The old school launchers you could bypass by just running the exe directly.
wouldnt be the internet if people didnt think everything you said was stupid for no fucking reason.
but yeah, the old school ones are mint, we need more of those.