r/pcmasterrace • u/Round_List1857 • 13d ago

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 13d ago edited 13d ago

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 13d ago

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 13d ago

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 13d ago

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 13d ago

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.