The way I see it with all these launchers is that if Half Life 3 was never on the cards in Valve's mind, it certainly is now. All these separate launchers will get Valve off its arse and make it react.
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Rockstar Games Launcher announced; you can get GTA: San Andreas for free.
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Time to get a 2nd PC! Only half-joking. Have one PC for non-gaming activities, get a 2nd one (regular one, not those "gaming" PCs) that will have all the launchers
I downloaded the launcher to get GTA San Andreas for free. At least you could launch your previous titles on Steam.
Wait, this is only for R* titles or the entire Take-Two/2K (back catalogue and upcoming) titles as well?
Given how no other Take Two game uses Social Club, I would bet it's only for Rockstar Games.
EGS is not a first party launcher and it is good for a all in one solution having competition
We just discovered one particular bummer about the launcher: it's not optional, even if you already have certain Rockstar games installed on Steam.
Good ones yes. Like, I wouldn't spend a dime on Bethesda's launcher, but I'll but games on Uplay.
Edit: As has been pointed out already EGS is not a first party launcher, so you haven't learned anything.
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Of all the things that the launcher war might cause Valve to do, I seriously doubt that beginning work on a 3-5 year long game development project is one of them. Whatever it is that causes Valve not to release Half-Life 3 wont be budged by something like this.
Apparently the launcher broke offline play for GTA V on Steam as well.
It'll probably be like Fortnite, or Blizzard games with Battle.net actually. Eventually once the launcher gets popular because of RDR2 and GT6 2K will just use it for their games. Get all of the cut from their games and share it with no one on PC. It makes business sense. If Microsoft and Sony could have their stores everywhere like walmart I doubt they would sell their products anywhere else. If they had the shipping distribution and online traffic of Amazon as well for their online stores.
GTA V was a Social Club game. All physical copies and keys sold at key sellers were Social Club.
The only way to get a Steam copy was to buy off Steam.
Hopefully we at least have that option with RDR2.
The only way to get a Steam copy was to buy off Steam.
Hopefully we at least have that option with RDR2.
Correct me if I´m wrong but some sort of rockstar club whatever-app always needed to be installed and running while playing their games on steam. So they just switched from their old app to this new launcher...right?
It didn't with the first 15, not sure why number 16 is going to do it
Now you need BOTH apps, the Social Club and the RGL. Remove either, and the game won't boot.
PC gaming mirrors the video streaming market. Too many services to navigate for me. The simplicity is why I've gone from PC to console. I like competition, but when each service has exclusive content it becomes a hassel. Competing services without exclusive content would be great, but impossible.
Try it out yourself. Shit suuuuucks compared to console, like I said.
When you see net profits of Take Two, I won't be so sure
But maybe his own salary is higher than Sweeney's salary
Ah, I was wondering why social club still appeared installed after I installed the launcher.
Well, fuck rockstar then. Here is hoping they get their head out of their ass and at least unify everything into a single app, if they insist on having it.
Just realized I'm missing GoG, Twitch and the Xbox/Windows Store on there as well
Another one for GoG to add to the pile. For some reason this one doesn't even annoy me much. Rockstar games sell like crazy on PC and it was inevitable that they didn't want to give a cut of the profit to another launcher.
I hope this launcher means that they stop releasing their PC versions 1,5 years after the console releases and instead do a simultaneous release.
I hope this launcher means that they stop releasing their PC versions 1,5 years after the console releases and instead do a simultaneous release.
I don't think so. I think T2 collects most profits from GTA, Sweeney still owns a ton of stock for Epic.
This just a launcher or is also a storefront? Lots of games actually already have "launchers" built in when you try and start them (kinda makes it annoying for controller only setups)
Still needing an answer for this. Also hope it's like the one on the right and not the left.
