On: Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating...

[ryandrake]

Thank you. I already have a "launcher" for my programs. It's called my computer's operating system. I don't understand why I should need to run a program just to have it run another program.

[baby → ryandrake]

Have any of you used steam?

[dzqhz → ryandrake]

So you can conveniently buy, download and update certain programs.

[Hjfrf → dzqhz]

Those could be a package manager and a web page.

Microsoft did this to themselves by not having a standard package manager installed by default.

[judge2020 → Hjfrf]

The Microsoft Store on Windows exists. They just aren't going to start letting you download full games without paying, so the Store still ends up mediating licensing, which publishers aren't too keen on.

But the Microsoft Store is pretty bad; ie. I still cannot install games to my second ntfs hard drive due to some weird error, so I don't use it.