• latenightnoirdeleted by creator
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    1 year ago

    I honestly don’t understand how these publishers don’t understand that foregoing their tumorous launchers and trackers would lead to a ridiculous amount of good publicity and a much-needed uptick in everyone’s perception of them…

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      There are two main reasons why these launchers exist:

      a) Selling your own games from your own store means not losing your 30% cut to Valve for selling on Steam. b) Far better automated bug reporting/crash reporting which results in quicker fixes for major crashes in games, which is better for the players.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah i assume ubisoft thinks they can get some of that good will by embedding their drm straight into their games where the layfolk will notice it less.

      Clearly it worked for the idiots who titled this article and reposted it.