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Gamers may be reluctantly willing to install multiple launchers, but Ubisoft and EA's launchers are universally hated. I personally have skipped many Ubisoft games that I would really liked to have played because I just don't want to sign up for their invasive spam machine.

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Gamers naively assume that hating something means anything. It doesn't. Publishers look at the numbers, and couldn't care less about what gamers feel. Gamers line up to shovel money in the publishers direction, and indie publishers that don't engage in abusive practices get left out in the cold by gamers. In the boardroom, there flat out is no evidence to suggest that resisting engaging in abusive practices would be anything but destructive to the business.

I've used both Ubisoft's and EA's launchers and I don't see how they're any worse than Valve's? The worst I can say is that they don't have as many features but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

They're both far more pushy with their ads and marketing for one, but the problem I have with them in general is why do I need to sign up with a publisher and install a new app to play a game? Imagine if instead of Spotify you had to make an account and download an app for every record label. Also, they are really just terrible companies.

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