Can I interest you in a very nice Trebuchet?

It’s the passive-aggressiveness of the tweet. Being bitter and sarcastic won’t make anyone’s day better either.

This Tweet (and all of its derivatives) is exactly the same level of not helpful.

They compare platforms from time to time, mostly indirectly. Android gets a mention concerning OS version fragmentation.

That’s it, for Apple the mere mention is already too much. Why would anyone want compatibility if they also just could buy an Apple product?

Also the reason why ipads and Vision don’t support multiple users: not only should you buy an Apple product, but so do your partner, parents, kids, etc.

I don’t defend the situation, I get along with it. Is it not possible for some people to have an issue with a product and still be able to use it?

Launchers aren’t perfect, not even Steam as the pack leader. But they’re a **minor inconvenience **.

I haven’t got a single game installed that uses nearly as few resources as all the launchers. Mass Effect LE alone is around 100 times bigger than Steam on my drive. That’s not bloatware, that’s a mini tool in comparison.

Curseforge/Overwolf takes less than 500 MB of RAM, when I launch Minecraft through it the game takes 20 times the amount.

Tell me where the problem is. If your computer can run and install the game it can do so with the launcher too. Some of us can deal with that even if it’s not a perfect situation.

Good grief just read and reflect on the first sentence of my previous post.

I don’t claim it’s not an issue and yes I can ignore it perfectly.

Compared to what amount of resources most modern games require, a launcher or store app needs a tiny fraction of that. The issue is overblown IMHO.

I agree, launchers are one superfluous piece of software that require additional resources.

Steam takes half a gig of RAM. From my 32 gigs available.

Also around 1 or 1.5 gigs on my drive. Many games take 50 to 100 gigs.

It’s a minor inconvenience. If one can’t afford one gig for a launcher how would a game be installed anyway?

Yes, just like Discord and many other apps that are useful but annoying: You take them off autostart once.

I don’t get why people would rather be angry all the time instead of just performing these five clicks once.

Again, I got to play four AAA games for the price of a movie ticket. How many lifetimes do I have to “own” these games?

I think I got my money’s worth out of the deal. Four big games for a tenner and people are still like "but you don’t really own them ". Yes, I know. It’s more like a very long rental.

I currently have 8 stores installed and 1 (in words: one of them) runs a background task: Windows/XBox services. Come again.

When playing modded games some rules of good practice don’t apply because of jank. It’s in the nature of things that aren’t designed to be modified. Specifically for my DA:I installation I count about 5 clicks and the game is launched. Compared to the hundreds of clicks in the game itself it’s a tiny inconvenience.

But to be clear once more: I never claimed launchers and game or app stores are an ideal solution, especially concerning their abundance and varying quality.

I want to play a certain game that requires a launcher, then I’ll either get that launcher or I won’t play the game.

No they don’t require admin rights at every startup. What’s wrong with your setup?

Exactly, I’ll start the game shortcut which launches the needed game store and then the game, done. None of the apps is in auto-start.

Updates are off course done via winget.

Please stop making up problems where there aren’t any. I already do acknowledge that launchers and game stores aren’t an ideal solution. But they work fine.

I paid 5€ for all three Mass Effects and another 5 for DA:Inquisition.

How long am I considered to “own” that before I can let go for good because I got my money’s worth?

I won’t ever play them a second time, so I gain nothing from games hogging my game library.

Oh thanks for the kind answer. I don’t care about Internet clout. This isn’t Reddit, I can live with 13 downvotes. :D

The only time any launcher ever had administrator-like rights is while updating. Don’t know why you would run them as admin.

Imagine how many great games people miss out on by being petty

Tl;dr

It’s not a car company. It’s a PC that when it can run a game it can run a launcher simultaneously too.