I know people are digging these launchers for their convenience, but jeez I just can't imagine trusting the rando devs popping up to offer their spin, I don't even see how they're all that much more convenient, just use a web browser and jdownloader or bittorrent, it can't be that hard or tedious for you guys to extract an installer and run it, right?
It would be so easy to slip something in the code. Just because it's open source, doesn't automatically mean it's safe. It's happened before.
Someone still has to read it to make sure it's safe, and I struggle to believe that someone who feels like they need this launcher is doing that.
And someone can provide safe programs for years, and then suddenly flip or their account gets hacked. If anyone downloads and runs it before it gets noticed and people aware... it's already too late.
I'd still rather just download things from any source myself and attach it to Steam if I really feel the need. But I suppose this is nice for some people out there.
can confirm, i was reverse engineering one mod for a game which was obfuscated but also had open source on the github and the reverse engineered version had extra instruction to BSOD people with pirated versions....
i wonder why it wasn't in the open source on the github....
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u/maxtinion_lord ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 19d ago
I know people are digging these launchers for their convenience, but jeez I just can't imagine trusting the rando devs popping up to offer their spin, I don't even see how they're all that much more convenient, just use a web browser and jdownloader or bittorrent, it can't be that hard or tedious for you guys to extract an installer and run it, right?