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Game launchers
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Launchers launch other launchers and force large updates before opening gamesUnreviewed
20182026- Launcher forces extra update step and download before the game can be played2025-03-29
- Launchers update and run at startup, breaking things or popping up modals mid-task2024-08-23
- Launchers launch other launchers and force large updates before games can be opened2022-09-22
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Games require very long downloads before they can be played at all2025-10-26
- Launcher forces extra update step and download before the game can be played2025-03-29
- Launchers update and run at startup, breaking things or popping up modals mid-task2024-08-23
- Launchers launch other launchers and force large updates before games can be opened2022-09-22
- Games fail to launch due to hardcoded or outdated .NET and DLL dependencies requiring manual fixes2022-01-26
- Games scattered across multiple launchers makes the experience horrible to navigate2019-10-10
- Must install many separate game launchers to play games scattered across services2019-09-19
- Must log in separately to each launcher and they keep prompting updates2018-12-03