I'm looking at you, ubisoft

Funnily the first time I tried Linux on my desktop was because I wanted to play BF4 but the EA App refused to launch on Windows 10 even after restarting/reinstalling everything.

I slapped Pop_OS on a backup SSD and got it running through Lutris within the hour.

Origin was a fucking nightmare to use even on Windows, and honestly...the EA desktop app wasn't really an improvement.

Just slap the "Linux" onto any post and immediately get more upvotes on Lemmy.

That's a tough one. Clearly, everyone hates both kernel-level anticheat and cheaters. The level of hate depends.

I must confess that I love the Assassins Creed series

I actually have a number of games that are Ubisoft that I love. They aren’t super new or anything, but they aren’t flops by my metrics (granted, I bought them used long after launch)

I didn’t know they were when I got them, then the ubiconnect thing comes up and I just don’t do that, and it’s just a game that takes longer to load than it should.

Idk about any super bad practices, maybe PC is different from console stuff? (which is how I play, hence used game market, because I can sell it later if needs must) or is this something that spans console as well? What sort of bad practices?

There's so much attempted shaming in these comments. People like some of their games and some like them a lot. Even if you don't feel like they're the best, Original and Odyssey still carry the attachment people have for Assassin's Creed and Anno 1800 has no real direct comparable alternatives.

Stop trying to make people feel bad for just wanting to enjoy something they like when they are the victim of these companies trying to make their life harder. The fact that Ubisoft treats their customers like trash isn't something to rub in someone's face, it's too bad that some people's hobbies are locked behind something like that.

Third party proprietary game launchers.

Mandatory first party launchers?

I dunno, I tend to think of the useless thing that comes up for a game I bought on Steam and run through Steam to be "third party"... Maybe that's a stretch, but whatever, it's just unwanted and unnecessary at that point

No way to extract what the launcher does and use it as launch options in whatever youre using to launch the game?

If you're talking about runescape, I've been using the fan made Bolt Launcher and it works great

Which MMO?

I could make another meme "Linux Gaming without Valve and Steam", but it would have another picture on it...

It's my observation that Valve has earned the trust of the linux gaming community and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.

Steam is the first party launcher as far as most of us are concerned. When another company puts their game on Steam but makes it go through their own launcher first, that is third party in our perspective and is a source of a lot of games not working.

Steam is fine in my book. And I understand why it isn't open source with how much it's worth.

Steam has an effective monopoly on open, marketplace-style launchers. EGS is their only real competitor and everyone hates it. GOG is years behind the curve and Amazon's launcher barely exists. At this point in time, Steam is hardly considered third-party since it's so ubiquitous.

Some people hate it, including some independent developers. I wouldn't mind going without it, if there was a Free Software library management alternative. I want something to track what I have installed (because I've "lost" things and reinstalled them before) and something that has a decent uninstall.

I also get some benefit from the store integration, but I can understand developers being annoyed at the 30% "steam tax". I'd gladly purchase using some other method, if I didn't have to sacrifice library functions from previous paragraph.

It is fully playable? I play on Linux with HoyoPlay and I have absolutely no issues?

Sometimes they're fun, sometimes friends play them and you want to join?

Anno1800 is actually fun (bought it before the steam release and don't wanna buy it again)

I really enjoyed origins and odyssey they were flawed but relaxing and fun

Oh no someone has a different opinion of enjoyment of an entertainment product better down vote them! Fucking cringe

Sometimes they make sense for managing mod-sets/different instances (i.e. Stellaris or most famously Minecraft.

Oof, wow doesn't work properly? That's sad, out of curiosity, how you name adds ons? Install/download them manually?

I hope you are running these games sandboxed and never on bare metal.

If you need help, feel free to ask here on lemmy. At least my home instance has more linux users than windows users, and there are many who are happy to help.

I don't know what flavor you were using or how skilled you are in linux, but I'm not very skilled with it at all and use PopOS and I've been able to play pretty much everything in my library besides destiny 2 and flight sim x.

Bye bye Steam. No more of that easy proton integration.

...except manage the game's environment, download and install local files and updates, validate those files to make sure they're not compromised, provide an API for service integration in games, manage middleware like Gamescope or Wine...

It would be like banning all loud and annoying freight trucks inside city limits, and then wondering why food doesn't show up in stores anymore.

But my achievements...!

(I'm serious about this.)

The only useful thing launchers can used to do is adjust things like display settings that require reboot. Basically an INI config GUI.

This was more common back in the day probably due to the game engines. More less games require restart in recent years but that could be due to me playing more indie games and less AAA titles.

Edit: wow. Downvote much.

You're right. It's just frustrating that most games could run better (or at all) if publishers paid just a little bit of attention.

GOG Launcher doesn't support Linux. I guess.