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2k Launcher has been fully removed from all games (support.2k.com)

submitted 5 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Keeps users in their wallet garden. Marketers love shoving shit in users faces whenever they launch the game. Inside the game it's bad for. To advertise whatever other garbage there is, on their launcher they try to grab your attention for their other crap

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

But see, that's the thing. They're just as capable of putting those ads in game too. I definitely would have more visibility on the ads just at the title screen than I would on a launcher I'm clicking through as fast as humanly possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 minutes ago

If they can convert purchase within their launcher, they don't pay Steam their cut. That's it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Then they'd have to update the actual game, as opposed to just updating the launcher when a change needs to be made.

Updating the launcher is quicker and cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 37 minutes ago

yeah, plus there's only one launcher, and possibly thousands of games.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

.......wallet garden? So....like a garden where they grow wallets for you to eat?

I mean, if that's in your taste palate, bone apple tea, I guess....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

man my phone just isn't my friend today

[–] [email protected] 3 points 58 minutes ago

Now wait, it's an interesting typo, the double meaning fits so well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I knew what you meant. I was just really proud of tying it to "bone apple tea".

I'm only here to amuse myself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

We need a term for a Freudian slip caused by mobile autocorrect. Because "wallet garden" is extremely accurate, even if it's not the intended word choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Eggcorn? Rickyism? Though neither is specifically for autocorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That's actually how I took it at first, seemed highly apropos.