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Many standalone downloads in fact come with the publisher app store. Thay must runs in order to start the game. The end result is the same. And the store will u
by bombela 6y ago
Many standalone downloads in fact come with the publisher app store. Thay must runs in order to start the game. The end result is the same. And the store will update the game anyways, often re-downloading the equivalent of half the game (we are talking 50GB scale here).
Sometimes you can use another publisher app store. Which will in fact start another app store upon starting the game. In turn starting the game. And the game itself will also ask you for a game studio account. So you need 2 app store and 3 account to play the game. And I am talking about single player game here.
- yellowapple 6y ago> Sometimes you can use another publisher app store. Which will in fact start another app store upon starting the game. Not saying this doesn't ever happen, but I've used Steam for more than a decade now and not once have I seen that happen, ever. Yes, some games have separate launchers, and yes, sometimes these have support for their own separate accounts and mod loaders and such, but not once have they actually been full-blown alternative app stores. I don't buy very many modern AAA titles, though, so that might be part of it. Still, of the ones I do buy, none of them have installed some alternative store.
- jamesgeck0 6y agoPractically every game from EA or Ubisoft on Steam published within the last eight years or so does this.
- Daho0n 6y agoAnd they do so because people support it.
- jamesgeck0 6y agoLike so much else in PC gaming, they do so because customers don't have a choice. If I want to play The Division with my friends, I have to put up with an extra launcher.
- ascar 6y agoIf it bothers you enough, then don't play the division? I actively avoid and don't buy/play games that require Origin or Uplay. Even when friends tell me about free games in Origin I don't give a fuck. And I'm a very active gamer. You do have a choice. There are tons of awesome games out there.
- kingsleyopara 6y agoPlaying devil's advocate: If it bothers you enough, then don't buy an iPhone?
- PandawanFr 6y agoUbisoft does this for games that are shared with Steam. You launch the game on Uplay which starts Steam which starts the game.