Not one bit from the internet required besides the initial download from a friend's PC. I kind of grew tired of getting the *expletive* launcher to bend to my will.īy comparison, Witcher 3 was literally just double click the installer from the flash drive, wait a bit, and start playing. Pressing cancel doesn't kill the download right away, forcing me to shut off the hotspot, or killing the application and starting anew. Also, Steam tends to be less than co-operative when kept in offline mode for months at a time, and installing games from a flash drive is extremely hit or miss as verification often fails, and Steam decides to munch on my data limit trying to download a copy fresh. Mobile phone for internet on a 6GB/month plan (with unlimited streaming Youtube, Netflix, etc at lower resolutions, even tethered), so downloading modern games is a rather ambitious endeavor.Ī substantial portion of my Steam games that I've already installed, all of which can be played single-player mind you, absolutely refuse to launch because updates are 'required', all of which are multiple GB. So, what I've done is just put all my games on a 4TB drive, then add all those games to my Steam library manually.

Went to download the game, and it only way I can redeem it is through the stupid launcher. When I bought my GPU, it came with a game download. All these different launchers are absurd.

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