I’m very similar to you. It’s the principal of the thing. For me you either use Steam as a launcher, because it’s a good experience that actually adds value to my games, or you have no launcher. I do not want launchers within launchers. I do not want a weird online account I will never use to come up every time the launcher I forgot existed times out. I don’t want to take 10 minutes each new game to figure out how to play with a friend. I want to install this smoothly on my Steam Deck. It’s not a good experience and it’s not to my benefit.
There’s just something slimy about corporations trying to suck more out of you with absolutely zero value, in fact negative value in return. That’s advertisments, that’s lainchers, that’s DRM, microtransactions, etc. All exist to the detriment of the customer and they ask you to pay for the privilege. Once you notice that you start to get a little crazy like you mentioned and avoid the insult at all costs.
I’m very similar to you. It’s the principal of the thing. For me you either use Steam as a launcher, because it’s a good experience that actually adds value to my games, or you have no launcher. I do not want launchers within launchers. I do not want a weird online account I will never use to come up every time the launcher I forgot existed times out. I don’t want to take 10 minutes each new game to figure out how to play with a friend. I want to install this smoothly on my Steam Deck. It’s not a good experience and it’s not to my benefit.
There’s just something slimy about corporations trying to suck more out of you with absolutely zero value, in fact negative value in return. That’s advertisments, that’s lainchers, that’s DRM, microtransactions, etc. All exist to the detriment of the customer and they ask you to pay for the privilege. Once you notice that you start to get a little crazy like you mentioned and avoid the insult at all costs.