yes that same company which also happens to be the most famous developer in the world outside of Nintendo.Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Like, a shitty store grabbing a bunch of exclusives and adding another annoying icon to the desktop/taskbar is one thing. But a launcher from a company that releases one game every ~5 or more years?
And if the game is installed, it opens the launcher and then the game, right? And if the game isnt installed, you would have to open the launcher first, download the game and then launch it right?
Your argument wasn't "PC vs PS4", it was "PC vs Consoles". Exclusives in the console space are restricted to paid platforms.
Wait, this is completely different from their other launcher?
No we're not, this isn't anything new. There are games that have their own launchers. Blizzard had it's launcher when it had a few games not too long ago. I remember Battle.net having just WOW, Starcraft 2, and Daiblo 3 when I bought D3 at it's launch, actually even during it's beta. MMORPG games usually have their own launcher. If Rockstar have the means to draw people to their games why would they even need something like Steam?Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Like, a shitty store grabbing a bunch of exclusives and adding another annoying icon to the desktop/taskbar is one thing. But a launcher from a company that releases one game every ~5 or more years?
Not to derail, but I think Rockstar exploiting its customers--including children-- with terrible gambling mechanics is 1000x worse than Epic swinging exclusives onto its platform.
Rockstar wouldn't be moneyhatting RDR2 and RGS would be more analogous to Origin or Battle.net than EGS, but ok. 🙄
Depends on if Take-Two uses their virtual casino money to keep games from other developers off of their competition's storefronts.
Nah, they'll be playing boring casino games in NBA 2K20, Take-Two's other gambling simulator.
Your copy of GTA V from Social Club will be automatically included in the game library of this new launcher.
There are also more games on PC than PS4, from more developer's and publishers. On PC Xbox games are just another launcher away, on condoles they're a whole hardware platform away.
Riot has their own launcher and to my knowledge they haven't released much of anything besides League of Legends in 2009.
Oh man I could only wish. Square Enix has this complex system of game membership sites that confuse people to this day, and yet they don't sell and distribute digital games themselves, they just use Steam instead. For FFXI and FFXIV they are able to sell those without steam especially since steam won't get any of their dlc/mtx money for the accounts that never use the steam version (if you buy the steam version you have to buy the steam dlc). Black Desert totally lock to or away from the Steam version for similar reasons.
Unless it's a different mod, my problem was with the camera controls, ie, it changes them almost to tank controls, directly parallel to CJ's shoulders. Makes the whole game play like resident evil 4.
Pretty sure SE had a launcher, but it abandoned it? Or was the online functionality/login requirement in FF7 inside the game itself and not the launcher in an Uplay-like fashion?
Most of GTAVs PC sales were on the social club, but yes they probably saw what Ubisoft did and had dollar signs on their eyes.
With the difference being you need another username and password accompanying each one of these launchers. With its own updates, friendlist, feature-set and so on.
Yeah that's exactly how it was with every game. Well those with at least a multiplayer component. I personally think this will cause Steam to readjust their revenue split even further down the line as more and more devs have other options.
