No launchers at all? They do help to organize the game library, synchronize saves across devices, enable achievements and friend lists, make it possible to share game libraries, install all your games from a single place, have a shop to discover new games. Steam even provides basic APIs for games to enable multiplayer. Many of these things could be baked into the game, though that would be extra work some devs might not do.
One centralised launcher? Such a monopoly might lead to problems such as higher prices / less money for game devs (especially the good indie studios that don’t have negotiation power), less innovation around that launcher and less effort towards a good experience with few bugs etc.
The problem isn’t launchers like steam or origin etc. it’s that when you install a EA game with steam you end up launching both steam and origin to play. Same with Ubisoft and Uplay.
The game should run without the specific launcher, so that it works with any launcher. Not this launcher inception nested dolls bullshit we have today
But honestly, what would be better?
No launchers at all? They do help to organize the game library, synchronize saves across devices, enable achievements and friend lists, make it possible to share game libraries, install all your games from a single place, have a shop to discover new games. Steam even provides basic APIs for games to enable multiplayer. Many of these things could be baked into the game, though that would be extra work some devs might not do.
One centralised launcher? Such a monopoly might lead to problems such as higher prices / less money for game devs (especially the good indie studios that don’t have negotiation power), less innovation around that launcher and less effort towards a good experience with few bugs etc.
The problem isn’t launchers like steam or origin etc. it’s that when you install a EA game with steam you end up launching both steam and origin to play. Same with Ubisoft and Uplay.
The game should run without the specific launcher, so that it works with any launcher. Not this launcher inception nested dolls bullshit we have today