SighTurtle
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I guess what a lot of people are just not understanding, getting is that a lot of us gamers do not want more and more and more launchers on top of launcher after launcher. I've been looking for this MEME I saw a while back that was pretty funny, but there is one out there that shows a desktop with uplay, steam, origin, blizzard, and many other launchers and the memory footprint is MASSIVE.
The additional front-end fragmenting is just going to be a major hassle.
I'm pretty sure they are going to sell a lot less copies of Fallout 76.
In my opinion, it's gonna be the catalog that makes or breaks whether or not people adopt the launchers.
The launchers with large AAA Multiplayer titles will likely succeed, as Ubisoft, EA, Activision-Blizzard have shown. Games like MMOs, and MOBAs long have had their own launchers, WoW and LoL show. Bethesda is a AAA publisher, BUT primarily deals in single-player games, so their launcher has not had much success up to now. With the fact that they are doing this for Fallout 76, I think they hope to finally attract the install base needed to leave Steam.