coffinwood @ coffinwood @discuss.tchncs.de

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Yes, just like Discord and many other apps that are useful but annoying: You take them off autostart once.

I don't get why people would rather be angry all the time instead of just performing these five clicks once.

Again, I got to play four AAA games for the price of a movie ticket. How many lifetimes do I have to "own" these games?

I think I got my money's worth out of the deal. Four big games for a tenner and people are still like "but you don't really own them ". Yes, I know. It's more like a very long rental.

I currently have 8 stores installed and 1 (in words: one of them) runs a background task: Windows/XBox services. Come again.

When playing modded games some rules of good practice don't apply because of jank. It's in the nature of things that aren't designed to be modified. Specifically for my DA:I installation I count about 5 clicks and the game is launched. Compared to the hundreds of clicks in the game itself it's a tiny inconvenience.

But to be clear once more: I never claimed launchers and game or app stores are an ideal solution, especially concerning their abundance and varying quality.

I want to play a certain game that requires a launcher, then I'll either get that launcher or I won't play the game.

No they don't require admin rights at every startup. What's wrong with your setup?

Exactly, I'll start the game shortcut which launches the needed game store and then the game, done. None of the apps is in auto-start.

Updates are off course done via winget.

Please stop making up problems where there aren't any. I already do acknowledge that launchers and game stores aren't an ideal solution. But they work fine.

I paid 5€ for all three Mass Effects and another 5 for DA:Inquisition.

How long am I considered to "own" that before I can let go for good because I got my money's worth?

I won't ever play them a second time, so I gain nothing from games hogging my game library.

Oh thanks for the kind answer. I don't care about Internet clout. This isn't Reddit, I can live with 13 downvotes. :D

The only time any launcher ever had administrator-like rights is while updating. Don't know why you would run them as admin.

Imagine how many great games people miss out on by being petty

Tl;dr

It's not a car company. It's a PC that when it can run a game it can run a launcher simultaneously too.

I have several hundred games and a handful of launchers. I start one of them. Sometimes two when necessary. What's the hassle?

I don't get the "launcher hate". Yes, they're not the most convenient, but I'm not playing in the launcher for hours.

Currently I play moddedDragon Age Inquisition. The launch sequence is:

Frosty Fix -> Frosty Manager -> Epic Games -> EA App -> Dragon Age.

Takes a few seconds and I'm in the game.

By taking a detour from the German Taler/Daler via Spanish Dolero. Already sounds more like Dollar?

Developers fixing a game is not a problem, it's desirable, even expected.

Making the game playable (like it was advertised) is not called fixing. That's developing the game.

CP wasn't an Early Access title, they wanted full price for three quarters of a game.

All episodes starting from the second season until circa 2000 are gold. After having told every story the scripts and characters descended into ridiculousness.

My favourite episode is the one where Homer wants to become a clown. It's so stuffed with jokes and silly ideas.

Took them how many years and updates?

I'm waiting for the expansion to be at 10 to 15 €, and play CP through again.

Edit for a serious question: Who's downvoting this? Pre-launch buyers?

Yes, CP is a good game now but remember the state it was in when CDPR asked full price for it at launch. You can't even call it launch when it didn't even take off on the PS4.

Just take a minute and read all the patch notes tagged with something like [added]. You'd be surprised how barebones the OG Cyberpunk was.

This must be a mistake on your side my friend, because this is clearly renowned German tenor Friederich Quecksilber.

I picked up Rise of Nations again, recently. I'll just pause the game, give orders, un-pause.

I played Gwent at every opportunity in the Witcher game and thought I'd love the stand-alone Gwent. Boy was I wrong. The mini game was simple enough to learn and not that hard to master. Gwent stand-alone is just too complex to have some simple fun with it.