system
A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Not really. If you download games off Steam, you still get their respective launchers. Take R6, NFS and other for example. They require their respective launchers
gpt
The point is they artificially require them, the launcher isn’t required but is said to be so company X can try incentivize you to use their platform.

If they launch X game on steam they can just integrate any social features and other things the launcher might handle into steams existing network and it’d be infinitely better for the end user, but alas here we are being shovel fed this garbage from them