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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Launchers aren't the problem. It's games being exclusive to certain ones
gpt
What we need is a consortium to define open standards for cross compatibility between launchers so a user can pick whichever launcher they like which will work with any game and features like friends all work cross-platform.
 
In theory it would be possible, but there's not much incentive for publishers to go along with it when they can lock games behind their own launcher. And I don't have much hope that we'll see any good legislation to force them to move in that direction any time soon.