I'm tired of launchers.

I'm tired of launchers. I'm not sure what benefit game companies derive from these things (by all means, if you know, tell me.) I can only imagine its having your email on a mailing list, and maybe being able to tie play data to an account.

I was furious when geforce experience, a genuinely useful app suddenly decided it was going to require a login. I have to recover my password for this damn thing all the time. Why do I need a password to automatically update my drivers or change settings? Cyberpunk now wants me to login. And I was furious to find out that Baldur's Gate 3, an otherwise AMAZING game, also wants me to login.

I don't want to have to create a <insert M rated word here> account to login every time I want to play a <insert M rated word here> game.

And I have to see the damn thing everytime I fire the game up. At least the Fallout 4/Skyrim launchers provide some functionality and don't ask you to make a bethesda account.

This sucks. Game Devs? Please STOP.

EDIT: To clarify: I'm talking per game launchers like the ones attached to cyberpunk, Xcom 2, BG3, ect. GOG, Steam, Epic game store are all game STORES and while it's annoying to have to launch mutiple programs to play a game library, it's at least understandable.