What is your opinion on a game having a launcher?
The title says it all more or less ^^, but I will give some background and how did this question arised in my head.
So me and a friend are building a Deck Building, Auto Battle, Real Time Strategy Game. Those are more or less the genres that we've combined. We would like to avoid using the steam marker and promote/sell the game on our own (We can always go to steam if it's not working :D).
This is one of the few reasons for having a launcher. We would like to promote our game from a landing web page where you get a glimpse of the game and after that you download the launcher to experience the full potential. The launcher will have:
- Store for buying the game and cosmetics within the game.
- User Profile
- Downloading / Patching and so on.
- In future it will have the deck building there too, so that you can plan even without being in the game and share your build and more.
More or less those will be the main functionalities of the launcher.
sooo, would you
- Consider downloading such a launcher outside of Steam, Battle-net or Epic Games?
- Do you think there are any drawback to launcher (For example people hate them or find them useless).
- Have any ideas on how to approach this or if you have any thoughts in general