I don’t defend the situation, I get along with it. Is it not possible for some people to have an issue with a product and still be able to use it?

Launchers aren’t perfect, not even Steam as the pack leader. But they’re a **minor inconvenience **.

I haven’t got a single game installed that uses nearly as few resources as all the launchers. Mass Effect LE alone is around 100 times bigger than Steam on my drive. That’s not bloatware, that’s a mini tool in comparison.

Curseforge/Overwolf takes less than 500 MB of RAM, when I launch Minecraft through it the game takes 20 times the amount.

Tell me where the problem is. If your computer can run and install the game it can do so with the launcher too. Some of us can deal with that even if it’s not a perfect situation.

Good grief just read and reflect on the first sentence of my previous post.

I don’t claim it’s not an issue and yes I can ignore it perfectly.

Compared to what amount of resources most modern games require, a launcher or store app needs a tiny fraction of that. The issue is overblown IMHO.

I agree, launchers are one superfluous piece of software that require additional resources.

Steam takes half a gig of RAM. From my 32 gigs available.

Also around 1 or 1.5 gigs on my drive. Many games take 50 to 100 gigs.

It’s a minor inconvenience. If one can’t afford one gig for a launcher how would a game be installed anyway?

Yes, just like Discord and many other apps that are useful but annoying: You take them off autostart once.

I don’t get why people would rather be angry all the time instead of just performing these five clicks once.

I currently have 8 stores installed and 1 (in words: one of them) runs a background task: Windows/XBox services. Come again.

Tl;dr

It’s not a car company. It’s a PC that when it can run a game it can run a launcher simultaneously too.

I don’t get the “launcher hate”. Yes, they’re not the most convenient, but I’m not playing in the launcher for hours.

Currently I play moddedDragon Age Inquisition. The launch sequence is:

Frosty Fix -> Frosty Manager -> Epic Games -> EA App -> Dragon Age.

Takes a few seconds and I’m in the game.