Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Does a single-player game really needs an online launcher?

Do you remember good old days when clicking an icon on the desktop actually lauched games?)
We already have steam/gog that are launchers on their own with info, updates and a large button that says play. Plus accounts are connected. So why is there a need for another launcher?
I've redeemed codes for the game and decided to check if everything works. But after hitting play in steam another launcher pops up that I can't log in to because of server error message.
I could understand an optional in-game log-in for co-op, but why are solo players forced to log in and get punished when a server doesn't feel well or internet loses connection? When Diablo 3 and 4 launched, players were waiting in a queue to play a single-player campaign which is rediculous. BG3 is highly anticipated and during launch servers may choke so why step on the same rake?

You dont have to log into the launcher I'm not logged in right now.

If you play on steam you can disable it ...
Just google disable bg-3 launcher Steam.

You don’t need to log in or be online to play. I don’t understand the purpose of Larian’s launcher, but it is not distruptive.

Larian launcher is used for telemetry. Every time the game cashes, it spawns a window for you to explain the crash and send the report. It also allows to select either DX11 or Vulkan, although Steam allows to do that natively so it is a bit redundant. Also it allows for Larian to show you their merch.

It's not a single player game, you are just playing it single player.

But yeah, you can bypass the launcher which others have pointed out.

The Launcher is actually quite useful though, not just for Multiplayer but for switching between different Larian games and managing your Multiplayer accounts, finding technical support, access to the forums for questions, disseminating news to players, getting access to the merch store, and providing feedback.

Who cares what bazillion things the launcher can do, some people like it simple. Double click the game once and play. Whats wrong with that?

I don't like it either, but nothing we can do about it, nor Larian.

Can a admin on the forum pin the answers as we are all sick of answering this for the 800times. You can launch it without larian launcher or gog launher by going into your files and clicking BG3.EXE this will launch the game directly without going over the 4 menus. It's been this way since path 5? Your welcome

The game doesn't need it, which is why it's optional. You can easily bypass it and just play the game. The big benefit it offers for single-player is cross-save. For example, you might play the game on your desktop at home and use GeForce now with your laptop on the road. Larian's launcher lets you keep your progress from device to device.