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ares35, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

thank you for the reminder to fetch my freebie for the week from epic. not that i actually play them (have a whole one title installed). i just collect those, too.

penquin,

Mind sharing? lol

brbposting,
penquin,

Thank you

mlg, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

So called free market socialists when steam offers almost all the games in one launcher (monopoly)

shneancy,

at least they’re using the money they get to make hardware that would not get greenlit otherwise due to too high market risks

and they didn’t suddenly make the platform subscription only & put all the new features in the cloud to make it harder to pirate (looking at you Adobe you pos)

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

monopoly

No, you need uplay for that

cashsky, do gaming w Unfortunately

Why does the robot have boobs?

agressivelyPassive,

Because Aggressotrons are “female”, whatever that means for a robot.

kratoz29, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

It has been ages since I played something on PC (I don’t have a gaming one) but that is crazy to me lol.

Is it not possible to just put the .exe files into the desktop (not shortcuts).

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

I know you used to be able to do that, but I don’t think it works anymore.

Shadow,
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

The exe is typically a tiny part of the actual game files, so no.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

Perhaps the entire folder of the game on your desktop? I do remember to have done something like that before lol.

bleistift2,

I tried that with Tropico 5. The .exe launches the Kalypso launcher. When you press play, it launches the steam launcher, which then launches the Kalypso launcher again. When you then press play, you get to play the game.

(This is from memory. Details may vary.)

Kecessa,

Depends, DRM free games yes…

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

I hear there’s a website for that… amazing how you can get anything drm-free if you know how to sail.

bentropy, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

See, you guys don’t know what you want. First it’s not okay for you that you have to use steam to play only three games and now it’s not okay that there are games you don’t have to use steam for… wtf!

bleistift2,

You used to be able to open games without the Steam launcher until the latest major release.

Also steam often launches another dedicated launcher.

ares35,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

if a game has its own launcher, yea, that's usually still there, too.

ekZepp, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!
@ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

Quite a pain. I mostly buy anything on steam or choose steam keys x this reason.

Pyro, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

That’s why I use Playnite

Poggervania,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

It still will launch a launcher if it needs to, but at least you can see all of your games in one place

KrokanteBamischijf,

Which is absolutely a must if you have a huge library across multiple platforms. How else will I find out if that indie gem in the latest Humble Bundle is already in the library somewhere?

Joking aside, Playnite is especially awesome if you like admiring a collection in gallery view. The “sorting title” feature is exactly what we need in a day and age where publishers don’t give a fuck about proper naming schemes.

They be like:

  • Game
  • Game II - Electric Boogaloo
  • Game 3: Definition of Insanity
  • Game™, the Return of Shenanigans
  • Game V; "Definitely the Last One"™

I just want my collection displayed in the proper order, stop that shit!

Hexarei,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

DOOM

DOOM II

DOOM III

DOOM

DOOM Eternal

KrokanteBamischijf,

Ah yes, DOOM… Which is not DOOM IV, because that was a separate project that has been cancelled.

[sad demonic noises]

b_crussin,

Playnite is sick. I’ve spent a ton of hours writing my own themes to customize it and set up categories for all of my games. And by that point I don’t even want to play the game I opened it for anymore lol

winterayars,

Oh good, it’s like a launcher for my launchers.

pete_the_cat,

Yo dawg…

rdri,

Jokes on you but that is what it actually is.

nihth,

Really liked it, too bad it’s not for Linux

pineapplelover,

Heroic launcher

FrenLivesMatter,
@FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today avatar

Heroic is pretty good too. Supports a lot fewer stores than Playnite (only Epic, GOG, and Amazon at the moment), but it doesn’t require any of the original launcher to be installed in order to download and play any games (with a few exceptions, such the the Star Wars games on Epic which still require the original launcher due to some fuckery).

Works on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and on the latter two, will even help you set up and configure Wine automatically in order to run your Windows games.

sexy_peach, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!
@sexy_peach@feddit.de avatar

I don’t even like steam

AceSLS,

I use dedicated cpu cores and other tweaks on my setup to reduce game input latency. Steam is always the 1 fucking program that randomly starves my remaining cores for absolutely no reason

dan1101,

It uses a lot of my RAM. I love Steam but it needs some optimization.

famousringo,

It’s such a garbage-tier app and always has been. Credit to Valve for busting open online app stores, but I have no idea why people like Steam so much.

Hexarei,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

but I have no idea why people like Steam so much.

Convenience is, I think, the primary driving force.

pleb_maximus,

Absolutely hated it when I was forced to use it. Nowadays I don’t mind that much anymore. But if a game needs to launch another launcher first, that drives me crazy.
Looking at you, EA and Ubishit.

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

I got into steam because I could (using modded files) download valve games for free. It was like piracy but without the torrenting and gameboxart.jpg.exe shenanigans.

Then I liked Counter Strike, and portal was coming out… and now I have a few thousand bucks in games.

Still don’t like having to run a nanny program to be “allowed” to play the shit I paid for. But steam is the best of that garbage pile.

pleb_maximus,

I got into it because I got Total War Napoleon (another annoying launcher with the Total War series nowadays…) and didn’t realize beforehand that you needed an Steam account for it.
I came around to appreciate the storefront and library for my purchased digital games. But as you said, I don’t want to have to run a nanny program to play my games. Especially my single player games.
That’s what I like about gog though, I can just download an offline installer for my games from them. Although I think by now even they have games on their store that require launchers.

Kecessa,

That’s what I always find funny about the EGS hate crowd… They complain about the features it didn’t have at launch (that it now has) but in the end having to launch any launcher pisses me off, might as well use the one with the least garbage! No Valve, I don’t need fucking trading cards with my games!

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

might as well use the one with the least garbage!

That’s why people use Steam!

Kecessa,

Steam has a whole lot of useless features compared to Epic or GOG Galaxy, it’s the most bloated launcher available at the moment. Do you need cards and tradable items linked to your account to play your games?

What’s funny is that if the roles were reversed Epic would be accused of trying to monetize whales and gamblers, but no one bats an eye because it’s Valve doing it.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95kNwZw8YY

Valve is also improving overall gaming experience by supporting Linux but go off about opportunistic Tim Swiney.

Kecessa,

You’re mixing up two separate debates, we’re talking about the launcher experience, not about the OS they support.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Supporting an OS is a part of launcher experience ya dingus.

Kecessa,

It’s clearly not part of this discussion because you can’t compare the user experience on Linux when the product you want to compare to doesn’t exist on it.

Also, you can just shut up if you can’t have a discussion without insulting the people you’re talking to, no one asked you to take part in the first place since clearly you’re trying to derail the discussion.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Lack of OS support is not a relevant point? Utter galaxy brain take lol.

Kecessa,

In a discussion where we’re comparing the user experience of two products we need to compare them in an environment where both products are working so the user can experience them both.

I don’t know how you can’t figure that out but here we are.

JoShmoe, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

Don’t forget minetest and gamehub

DavidGarcia, do gaming w Unfortunately

no one tell her about psychiatric medication

Dadifer,

She’s saying that you can’t package suicidal depression, whereas psychiatric medication would be the antidote. I happen to disagree, as I get suicidally depressed every time I go on Facebook.

DanglingFury, do gaming w Unfortunately

What game

csfirecracker,

Fallout 4

iHUNTcriminals, do gaming w Unfortunately

They just put that in the food.

chunkystyles, do gaming w I knew he'd understand

Real gamer move.

Rhoeri, do gaming w Game of the year?

Trolls fuck up everything.

Zehzin, do gaming w Game of the year?
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

And I thought Elden Ring had too many tangents 🥸 🚬

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