There were certain areas / situations where the framerate would just completely tank for whatever reason and afaik the release version was also pretty bad (I waited for a good sale though). One very notable one for me was when in the very beginning when you're supposed to go to the village for the trial as soon as you got close to the gate my FPS went into the single digits. No idea why, inside of the village it was all fine again but the way there was unplayable. Luckily you'd just had to run to the entrance.
That DRM is currently Steam. Adding another launcher only adds to the headache PC users have to deal with: EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, etc. Horizon ZD currently sits on GOG without DRM. Unfortunate that it's the only one but it's possible.
Just because it exists doesn't mean we should put up with it.
People gave Larian shit for their launcher so they added a launch option to skip it. It wasn't DRM, it was an added headache and they recognised that.
I don't understand why people are willing to let companies do shit like this just because their sacred cow is on Steam. Have some goddamn principles.
You’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise considering all the comments on GOG that say it has DRM and the length of agreements you have to sign after install
Microsoft is still on Steam, despite having their store built in to the OS. Sony launching a store doesn't inherently mean their games will disappear from other storefronts.
What if they add it and enable cross platform for at least their games and subscription library, without abandoning Steam? There are ways it could be a positive.
I didn't say the games would disappear. That's not my contention. I would be much angrier if that's what they were planning. It adds another layer of bs that we already have to deal with. It makes the game launch take twice as long. You now have to install another application just to play the game you bought on STEAM. It's hell on Linux systems because most launchers are garbage bloatware. I could keep going but for me, there is no positive that outweighs these negatives.
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