I googled a screenshot of the launcher, so this could be from an older version. It looks like they have a link to buy merchandise, digital upgrades, advertising more games by the company that you have not bought yet. Also links to submit submit a but, let’s them hopefully have less QA personal. Community link to help the longevity of the game for longer term sales.
They do this and keep their top selling games exclusive to their platforms. Games like GTA have shown just how much money you can make off micro transactions. No company is going to just jump out of that market. They use their top games so they are more liley to get people to just have it installed. That way you install the launcher, put in your credit card, and you are only a click away from handing them some money.
There can be positive benefits though, auto updates, update news, community messaging or content.
But mostly so they can get the hardest part of selling done, a valid payment method input.
BTC is very trackable, ZCash and Monero are coins that strive for privacy. Watch ZCash spike as BTC gets cashed out just before BTC retraces down 40%. Has happened for the last 2 or 3 all time highs. That’s how they will mix their Ill gotten gains.
Next time you see a post you like in the games lemmy, just send the OP a key and thank them for being a generator of content. Tell them they can keep it or pass on the good act.
Very easy to run yourself theses days as long as you have a decent GPU or Mac unified silicon. OpenWebUi will let you host your own ChatGPT that you can choose different models to run. Dolphin Mixtral is a pretty popular “unlocked” model.