yeah it’s a rant.
I pulled down XCom2 from Steam this afternoon because I really enjoy it and I’m between interesting games at the moment, and apparently 2K decided to throw in their own game launcher overlay. It does nothing… except make you click PLAY again, take up resources, and trash any and all mods including the console.
I googled and fiddled around with it for about 30 minutes and then just… lost interest completely. Uninstalled. Moved to junk folder.
Let me reiterate: the 2K launcher does absolutely nothing except bad things.
I know I know, I could have found a workaround by grabbing a custom launcher written by white hats (presumably) from GitHub and declining a terms of service each launch or endured red screens and being locked out of gameplay options and blah blah. But I just hit a wall and gave up. I shouldn’t HAVE to go through this entire ordeal just to get one workshop mod.
RDR2 soured me like this too. Why does Rockstar need …
https://s3.amazonaws.com/data.warlight.net/other/ActivisionVsWarzoneLawsuit.pdf
Here is the document of the lawsuit. The dev goes into more detail himself on his gofund me. Activision knows that their lawsuit is baseless but are betting on the indie dev not being able to afford a defence in court.
EDIT: Apparently indie dev sued first and activision is counter sueing but isnt asking for financial compensation (more info down below). u/Mario_Viana summed it up nicely in his comment:
“This is completely twisted. I advise anyone to read the lawsuit before commenting on favor of the Indie dev. The Indie dev is seriously twisting this story in their favor. They started the lawsuit claiming that they had the trademark on the word “WARZONE” and asked for financial compensation after sending a Cease and Desist to Activision-Blizzard. This lawsuit isn’t asking for any money from the dev, it is a counter-lawsuit solely to ilibate Activision of paying for …