Launch control.
Connect, all the way down to the digital wasteland that is the Microsoft Store. One of the most baffling examples of the form, however, is the 2K launcher. Rarely glimpsed the 2K launcher does basically nothing apart from force you to click a second button when you launch some 2K published games on Steam.
No reason was given for the change, but the general response to the decision was one of relief."Thank goodness. I am very tired of having half a dozen launchers on my computer in addition to Steam," wrote user Graymaven," while user Snownova said"Hallalujah! Praise be to Sid!" It is worth noting, however, that many Civ 6 players seem to have been working around the launcher anyway, which could be partly behind the decision to ditch it entirely."To be fair, a lot of us circumvented the launcher altogether," user darthreuental pointed out, while GardenSquid1 said"I have been circumventing the launcher so long I forgot it existed."
The thread does confirm one important point about the launcher change, prompted by Human-Law1085 asking"What happens with the DirectX 11/DirectX 12 choice?" This is one of the few user options the 2K launcher facilitated. In response, Modo44 points out that you can now make this decision via Steam itself."Hit Play in the Steam client, and you get a pop-up asking for your choice.
It's nice to see some sensible thinking from 2K. While it's understandable that publishers would prefer players to launch their games from their own platforms, and it's probably a good thing for Steam to have some competition, many of these launchers smack of pride rather than anything actually useful to players, and the 2K launcher is arguably the most arbitrary of the lot.
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