After an incredibly brief existence, Owlcat has completely rolled back a controversial new launcher from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. Introduced yesterday, the Owlcat Launcher was intended to be a pre-game space for collating news and updates about Owlcat's various games. "Instead of searching across multiple platforms for updates, news, and announcements, now you can find them all gathered in one convenient place whenever you launch the game," said the studio.
As (you would have thought) anyone could see coming, players hated it. Though Owlcat said it had taken pains to make the launcher as "unobtrusive" as possible—it required "no mandatory registration," said it did not collect player data, and could notionally be entirely turned off—players responded negatively. The Rogue Trader subreddit and Steam forum were immediately awash with complaints.
Partially, of course, that's for the simple reason that these sort of pre-game launchers are universally terrible: bloatware ...
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