With Owlcat working on so many games right now, you'd see why they might want to compile the information in one place, but people don't like extra buttons.
Launchers are also trackers that monitor where users interact with the software. Owlcat wants the telemetry data to sell as a side hustle. It’s like they don’t make games to be fun anymore; games are marketing tools.
Even that dumb argument of theirs falls flat once you see that plenty of games use the main menu screen as a little ad space for their own store or similar games.
I’m frankly amazed that companies still insist on creating their own launchers, despite every company getting well deserved flak whenever they do it.
Everyone of them has an asshole in marketing thinking like
Launchers are also trackers that monitor where users interact with the software. Owlcat wants the telemetry data to sell as a side hustle. It’s like they don’t make games to be fun anymore; games are marketing tools.
Even that dumb argument of theirs falls flat once you see that plenty of games use the main menu screen as a little ad space for their own store or similar games.