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# A PC Game Launching A Launcher After I've Already Launched It In Steam Should Be A Crime
- URL: https://aftermath.site/ubisoft-ea-paradox-launcher-pc-steam/
- Published: 2024-10-03T23:19:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-27T17:11:42.000Z
- Author: Luke Plunkett
- Tags: Blog, Video Games, ea, steam, ubisoft, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00

Ubisoft has had a rough month--of all places[ this CNBC article has the most comprehensive and level-headed roundup](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/assassins-creed-maker-ubisoft-ubi-faces-questions-over-its-future.html?ref=aftermath.site) I've seen--but among all the disappointment and frustration over everything the company has done (and not done) lately, there's one thing in particular I want to point at and say "this *really* pisses me off and I wish you would stop it".

That thing is the company's continued bungling of my platform of choice, the PC. You can see this reflected in a bunch of ways: the fact Ubisoft have long insisted on selling their games on their own desolate shopfront, the fact they made their own PC launcher that sucks, and the way that when you *can* get a Ubisoft game on Steam (and the company has recently pledged to return to it), shit like this happens:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/bafkreierhjzicusr7mcs3yfcdaaxgyyebqjwzododybktec7ddihew566u-1.jpg)

Source: Reddit

Steam is a launcher. It works. Companies like EA and Ubisoft have their own launchers that routinely do *not* work, or when they do, work poorly. If I buy a game in Steam and launch it in Steam to then play it in Steam, I should not have to be subjected to *another* launcher! I've already launched the game and want to play it there, thank you!

And yet. In a best case scenario, waiting for Steam to boot a game then having to wait for Ubisoft or EA or Rockstar or Paradox or whoever's launcher to load after it, then having to click play *again* just so we can play the game we already clicked play on in Steam is a pointless waste of time. At worst, like we see above (or like I've personally experienced everywhere from trying to play *Star Wars Squadrons* in VR to a recurring *Europa Universalis IV* bug that makes the game *unplayable*), the extra load (and introduction of extra variables where shit can go wrong) can straight up break your ability to play a game at all.

As such, I have a modest proposal. I think anyone responsible for the implementation of a launcher for their PC games should be thrown into the ocean.