In my opinion when I buy a game on Steam then Steam is the first party launcher for me.
Doesn’t matter if the game is developed/published by EA, Rockstar, Ubisoft, or whatever.
I’m paying money to Steam, I’m getting game files from Steam, that makes it first party launcher.
Other companies are taking advantage of their role as developer/publisher to insert their own launcher to force me to create an account on their service.
But on Reddit (🤮) I see people calling Steam as third party launcher.
Am I wrong or redditors are wrong?
From a customer point of view steam is a third party…
Third party means literally anything that isn’t you.
Its context sensitive. Do you understand how English and third person works…?
Steam is a third party from the consumer perspective because valve is not the consumer.
Literally replace the word “third party” with “them” and first party with “me/myself/I”