Alexstarfire

Confirmation

Yep, that's unpopular.

Lemmy sure is a tough crowd.

Hard disagree. The OG Xbox was very rough around the edges. There's a reason the 360 did miles better.

Do you mean schizo, like schizophrenic? I have to admit I've never thought about how the slang term looks spelled out. It looks weird.

If this administration could be humiliated they'd have been booted out his first term and never even been in the running again. And if not first term, certainly early last year. The writing has been on the wall for ages and everyone just keeps ignoring it.

The only way this war was going to end was either a huge escalation, or something like this. Hard to say if Trump will benefit in some way from whatever deal he made, but I he and his family have benefitted from the war already.

Failed miserably? You were impeached twice in your first term. Thus far, to my knowledge, no one has been impeached and removed from the office though. Nixon probably would have but he resigned before fixing out.

From a customer's point of view everything is third party because they didn't make shit.

That's a perspective to have, but I'm telling you that's not how most people are going to use the term. That's why I made the analogy to retail stores. Back when buying a PC game at a store gave you the actual game, no one considered the store the first party. You're just using them to buy what you want. The first party is what you actually purchase. The store my also make their own stuff. That's extremely common these days, I'm talking places like Home Depot and Walmart, not Gamestop.

Moving to digital made have made the dynamics a bit different, but first and foremost, you're still buying stuff from a store. And many of these stores also make their own stuff: Valve, Epic, EA, etc.

Well, I was hoping pointing out something inconsistent with what you said would help, but it did not. To be blunt about your original question, you're wrong. The developer is always the first party. They may have their own launcher or use a third party launcher like Steam, Origin, Epic, etc. It's nicer for the consumer when they use a third party launcher because then you can just launch right into the game.

If you bought a game at a brick and mortar store but had to sign into an account from the developer after installing, is that now a third party launcher? After all, it has nothing to do with where you purchased your game.