And to generalize it a bit - users get annoyed when they want to just buy a product, and the producer pulls some vendor lock-in bullshit trick. They're right to be annoyed, because not only it is inconvenient, such moves are meant to exploit them.
"Game manager" is a especially visible case because, with the exception of Steam, Battle.Net, they're almost universally crap. Some of them are so bad I wouldn't want to install one even if it was the only game platform in existence!
"Game manager" is a especially visible case because, with the exception of Steam, Battle.Net, they're almost universally crap. Some of them are so bad I wouldn't want to install one even if it was the only game platform in existence!