Flogger23m
[H]F Junkie
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I never disputed that these capitalistic companies want to maximize profits, in fact if you read my post you will see that I actually quoted that's exactly what they want to do.
My point was that none of this is beneficial to the end consumer.
We now have half a dozen stores/launchers all sucking down system resources that effectively all do the exact same thing and any savings experienced by the developer are not passed in any way on to the consumer. It's all about greed and not customer experience, because that's what capitalistic USA is all about. I don't give two shits regarding what you think about Steam, who cares about Steam ten years ago?
Your initial reply made little sense in all honesty. You're the one who went off on a tangent with why it isn't good for consumers. That isn't the point and as I already mentioned, your opinion is noted and discarded. You're stuck using launchers, period. And you'll use whatever one they make you use. And when games go subscription only, you'll go with that as well or you'll quit the hobby.
In regards to resources, it isn't that big of a deal. They take up what, ~300MB? I close all launchers when I'm not using them. It takes about 2 seconds. I used to do that with Steam but started leaving it on for the friends list, but pretty much everyone uses Discord now instead of Steam and I can't be bothered to use it. So I'll personally end up leaving Steam off again sooner or later unless I am playing a game. Don't really see the big deal.