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Having to launch games from 5 different shitty desktop programs is terrible for the user.
by Whatarethese 6y ago
Having to launch games from 5 different shitty desktop programs is terrible for the user.
- ccktlmazeltov 6y agoIsn't it better than not being able to install a game you want?
- CarbyAu 6y agoThis is true. I installed two stores for games. Only one autoloads. And I have a few programs I have bought entirely outside these stores. This suits me. And that is the main complaint for a lot of people. The option for users to suit themselves. We can vote with the wallet and go non-apple. But we're allowed to express desires and wishes too.
- pfranz 6y agoI was doing Unreal Engine development on an airgapped machine. I was annoyed to find out it requires the Epic store. There's also no offline install option. I hate updating the app each time I run it, only then checking for an update to Unreal Engine. I also hate having separate apps for different games. I tend to avoid most of the stores even if I want to play those games.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoIts not just bad UX. Its horrific for privacy. Epic games on windows load a rootkit in to the kernel that starts a boot even while the game is not running.
- ohgodplsno 6y agoAbsolutely not. You're thinking of Riot Games' anticheat for Valorant. The worst EGS does is enumerating running processes and DLL.
- ricardo81 6y agoThis is the problem with companies 'forcing' their proprietariness at the expense of interoperability. Devices have been a lot more usable over the years but there does seem to be quite a lot of deliberateness when it comes to preventing competition, especially so for devices. In the West, if Apple/Google/Facebook/Twitter decide they don't like something you're doing, you're pretty much off the radar and at a massive disadvantage in whatever market you're in.
- aero-glide 6y agoBeing forced to stick to one store is shitty for the user.