For Rogue Trader on Steam.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is one of those games that has found its groove. If you check out the numbers on Steam you’ll see that it has a solid concurrent playerbase in the thousands at any given time, and reviews on a daily basis fall into a couple dozen positive reviews and maybe three to six negatives.
Well until just yesterday (June 22) when Owlcat Games announced the proprietary Owlcat Games launcher. The update billed the launcher as a convenient way to find news, content, and updates for the game and according to Owlcat was completely in-house and collected absolutely no data from users. Another purpose of the launcher was to provide players with information about Owlcat titles since, according to the devs for example, a large portion of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous players had no idea that Rogue Trader even existed despite the obvious overlap in interest.
And the player base wasn’t having it. Over the last 24 hours more than 160 negative reviews have been added to Rogue Trader with the vast majority pointing to the launcher with many players not particularly caring for Owlcat’s reasoning. A lot of players still refer to it as a “third party launcher” with many accusations that the launcher is still harvesting telemetry data, and players are also noting that the option to disable the launcher doesn’t actually disable it. It merely hides the launcher where it sits in the background using up data and ram.
Players also complain that the update has broken the game for those still playing on older versions who refuse to update for one reason or another like older versions not having bugs present in more current builds.
The swift negative reaction was enough for Owlcat to put their hands up and surrender, with a news post today (June 23) acknowledging the negative feedback and announcing that the game will be rolled back to the pre-launcher version.
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