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2K removes its pointless launcher from Civilization 6, while also announcing that Civilization 7 players will never have to suffer launching the game twice for no reason (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't think that's part of why they do it. I'm an avid civ 6 fan, and I can say that the launcher is pretty unobstructive. Between launching from steam and launching from the 2k launcher, it takes about a minute. It's likely to collect data, but honestly the only useful data they'd get is the pc hardware, the length of play, and common mods. 2k probably saw that they weren't getting sellable data and decided to scrap the idea, honestly it's probably the only decent thing the company has done in years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

The data collection can just as easily be done by the game itself, the launcher doesn't have any special privileges

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

There was a period of time (probably about 3-6 months) when the launcher would cause the game to crash on launch. I had to mod it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's likely to collect data, but honestly the only useful data they'd get is the pc hardware, the length of play, and common mods

Are you sure that they don’t look at every folder in your system for imagens etc?