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frauddogg ,
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The evil is defeated!

sunzu2 ,

Removing anti feature nobody ever asked for is a W but it is kinda silly since they forced upon gamers

ChicoSuave ,

Game launchers track user activity within the game. It’s how developers gather “user research” about how people play their game. It’s also telemetry about how your system is being used and is frankly invasive as possible without being illegal. And legality gets squidgy for data so nothing is off limits.

2K wanted that user data to sell to keep generating revenue from Civilization after the game and DLC were purchased. Typically a company has little incentive to linger on a game, they will publish, babysit the game for a few years with bug fixes, and quietly start developing the next project. 2K was farming data but for some reason didn’t like what they got so they stopped. I’m not sure if this is caused by consumer backlash but the end result is a benefit for us game players.

sunzu2 ,

run steam via flatpak and civ via proton... how much can they collect from that?

hexaflexagonbear ,
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party-blob

Tramort ,

Thank God. It adds nothing and is user hostile

vulgarcynic ,
@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works avatar

Sweet. Now do the BioShock “Remasters”.

robot_dog_with_gun ,

one down, several to go

TheHobbyist ,

Anyone know why the launcher is removed? And does it have any implications with any DRM?

wander1236 ,
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The 2K Launcher in the Steam edition was entirely useless and not even technically required to get the game to run. It just added an extra step of waiting for an interstitial launcher to load so you could press Play a second time, and you could tell Steam to just run the game executable directly to bypass it entirely.

RickyWars ,

Finally. Hopefully removed from Civ V as well.

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