Borderlands and Civilization writer 2K Video games has quietly carried out one thing very cool and good: The corporate has eliminated the necessity to use its 2K PC launcher from all of its video games, and sundown the software program fully.
For a lot of, a few years, Steam—Valve’s digital PC retailer—was the de facto launcher and market for all laptop video games. However beginning round 2019 or so, publishers like EA, 2K, Ubisoft, and Bethesda, all started locking video games behind particular person (and annoying) launchers. So that you’d purchase a sport on Steam, solely to be compelled to obtain and muck round with a separate launcher for that sport that might boot up every time you tried to play it by way of Steam. Some corporations simply stopped publishing video games on Steam fully in an effort to keep away from paying Valve a reduce of every sale. However extra publishers are lastly reversing course on all this nonsense, and 2K Video games is the most recent.
On November 18, 2K Video games quietly started sunsetting its PC video games launcher and eradicating it fully from all of its titles.
With this modification, Bioshock Remastered, Bioshock 2 Remastered, Bioshock Infinite, The Quarry, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns will now all launch straight into the sport by way of Steam with no bullshit steps in between. No extra updating a launcher or linking accounts or no matter. You hit play on Bioshock in Steam and that’s that.
Some video games, just like the remastered Mafia Trilogy, will take a bit extra work to clean out the 2K Video games launcher. The Borderlands writer has up to date every sport’s assist web page with information on what customers might want to do.
Moreover, on November 25 the writer pushed out an replace on Steam that totally eliminated the 2K Video games launcher, changing the folder that contained all of its information and knowledge in your PC with a single textual content file named “2kLauncherRemoved.txt.” The writer says you’ll be able to safely delete that file, too.
2K has a separate information for people wanting to verify each final bit and bob of the launcher is totally gone from their PCs.
Oh, and for the few of you on the market who favored the 2K Video games Launcher, effectively, sorry. The writer confirmed in a FAQ that it has no plans to proceed to assist it, however 2K does “respect your curiosity.”
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