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.
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.
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.
Self-checkout and self-scanning are great when done right.
I only need to pack my groceries into my shopping crate once with the hand scanner. Or when buying only a few items, I skip the lines and scan them myself, pay with my phone, done.
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?