• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    Everyone of them has an asshole in marketing thinking like

    It’s not spam! Our players will appreciate getting news about our new games.

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      3 hours ago

      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.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      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.