Ubisoft is awful about this. My kids couldn't play Immortals on Xbox because it required a Ubisoft account to even play singleplayer, but they're too young to make accounts, so they got stuck in an endless loop until we figured out to set the entire system in offline mode. Why is this a thing? Who does it help?

hey, finally some time to play a game! how about Big 3A Sandbox 2018, haven't played that in a while

huh, let's just let steam update it, just three minutes

ok now it's starting

oh another launcher

oh, launcher needs to update, just four more minutes

ok finally done, but now i need to log into my PublisherOnline account, just let me reset my password that i haven't used in forever

ah, now it's connecting to PublisherOnline, almost there

oh sweet, PublisherOnline launcher .exe crashed, that's 25 minutes well spent

Yeah basically this; I can't be bothered to make an account for my games. There's a hunting game on steam I want to play but it needs you to make an account somewhere apparently and nope, can't be bothered.

Yeah, I have to agree, especially it's some proprietary account not used for anything else. I thought about getting Street Fighter 6, but after noticing it has Denuvo and you need to make a Capcom account to play it, I said ”no, I'm good”.

Uplay and Origin are the absolute worst, with both just constantly failing to do the literal one singular thing they're supposed to do. At least Epic actually functions consistently, about on par with Steam in my experience. But then I've had an account and been using the launcher since long before they had an actual store on it, back when it just had separate tabs for the UE4 editor (what I was using it for), Unreal Tournament, something called "Shadow Complex" that was some free sidescrolling UE4 tech demo or something, and the Paragon closed alpha (later joined by the Fortnite closed alpha).

Like I get it, but the way I see it is that this is being blown way out of proportion and making them look like manchildren because they were being only slightly inconvenienced.

Tencent has an ownership stake in it, and that ruffles all the racist gamers up. I have an Epic Games Store account just for the weekly freebies lol

wow so xi jinping is giving me free games?? thats sick if true

I mean letting people play the game for like a month and then telling them to fuck off (without the prospect of giving them a refund at the time) was pretty shitty