Alexstarfire

It's been locked for quite a while so that's the final count.

Accountability? In this environment? 🤣🤣🤣

I loathe people who make car modifications where the sole purpose is to make shit loud. Completely inconsiderate.

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.

Sometimes it does feel like my head is just for decoration. And I'm a shitty decorator to boot.

It might for you. It does nothing for me.

Easily solved by not using top sheets.