Please, No More Launchers

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Whenever a formerly console exclusive game comes to PC, the big thing to look out for is mods. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (or as every normal person calls it, ‘Spider-Man’) is the latest to make this jump, and sure enough, the mods are out in force. There’s good and bad to this. On the one hand, we can play as Black Cat, Kingpin, or even Uncle Ben’s grave now, but on the other, whiny conservative babies have removed the Pride flag and replaced it with the Stars and Stripes. It’s not the mods that have caught my eye though, it’s a secret lingering deep in the games files… Sony might be planning its own launcher. Please, Sony. Don’t.

Back in my day, when jobs sat cooling on the windowsill and people could leave their MiniDisc players unlocked, you had one launcher, and it was also your marketplace. Steam was the only game in town. I’m not opposed to Epic getting in on the scene, because I think competition can be healthy. But these other launchers aren’t so much competition as they are vanity. There are some reasons they make good business sense, but mostly they’re a giant pain in the ass.

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It’s irritating, but thankfully not a cost issue for consumers. With video streaming, the more services that try to do a Netflix, the more services there are to pay for. When Peacock decided it wanted to enter the world of streaming, Netflix lost The Office. Previously, if you wanted BoJack Horseman and The Office, you needed to pay one subscription. Now you need to pay two. Individual companies all want a slice of the pie, but now in order to get a full pie, customers have to buy more slices.

In the wacky and wonderful world of video game launchers, that’s not how