border areas And civilization Publisher 2K Games has quietly done something very cool and good: the company has removed the need to use its 2K PC launcher for all of its games and discontinued the software entirely.
For many, many years, Steam – Valve's digital PC store – was the de facto launcher and marketplace for all computer games. But as of about 2019 or so, publishers like it EA, 2K, Ubisoft and Bethesda have all started locking games behind individual (and annoying) launchers. So you'd buy a game on Steam, only to be forced to download and play around with a separate launcher for that game that launches every time you try to play it through Steam. Some companies have simply stopped publishing games on Steam complete to avoid Valve getting a cut of every sale. But more and more publishers are finally turning away from their course in the face of all this nonsense, and 2K Games is the latest.
On November 18th 2K Games quietly began its decline its PC game launcher and completely removes it from all of its titles.
With this change, Bioshock Remastered, Bioshock 2 Remastered, Bioshock Infinite, The Quarry, And Marvel's Midnight Suns are now all launched directly into the game via Steam, without any unnecessary steps in between. No more updating a launcher or linking accounts or whatever. You click on “Continue playing”. Bioshock in Steam and that's it.
Some games, like the remastered mafia Trilogy will require a little more work to get out of the 2K Games launcher. The border areas The editor has updated on each game's support page with information about what users need to do.
Additionally, on November 25, the publisher released an update on Steam that completely removed the 2K Games launcher and replaced the folder that contained all of its files and data on your PC with a single text file named “2kLauncherRemoved.txt.” . The publisher says you can also safely delete this file.
2K has a separate guide for people who want to make sure that the launcher is completely removed from their PC until the last part.
Oh, and for those few of you out there who enjoyed the 2K Games Launcher, I'm sorry. The publisher confirmed in an FAQ that it has no plans to continue supporting it, but 2K “appreciates your interest.”
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