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I just love collecting them all! (startrek.website)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely hated it when I was forced to use it. Nowadays I don't mind that much anymore. But if a game needs to launch another launcher first, that drives me crazy.
Looking at you, EA and Ubishit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got into steam because I could (using modded files) download valve games for free. It was like piracy but without the torrenting and gameboxart.jpg.exe shenanigans.

Then I liked Counter Strike, and portal was coming out... and now I have a few thousand bucks in games.

Still don't like having to run a nanny program to be "allowed" to play the shit I paid for. But steam is the best of that garbage pile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I got into it because I got Total War Napoleon (another annoying launcher with the Total War series nowadays…) and didn't realize beforehand that you needed an Steam account for it.
I came around to appreciate the storefront and library for my purchased digital games. But as you said, I don't want to have to run a nanny program to play my games. Especially my single player games.
That's what I like about gog though, I can just download an offline installer for my games from them. Although I think by now even they have games on their store that require launchers.