It's yet another program you didn't choose collecting whatever data from your computer, and yet another - very intentional - obstacle to the gaming experience. Honestly, it's less about time and more about artificial obstructions and privacy invasion everywhere.

It is particularly egregious when studios who normally side with the gamers, like CDPR, do the same thing with their games.

But it’s never risen to the level of “I literally will not buy/play the game over this.”

I couldn't play Mirrors Edge once, because the fucking launcher (what was it, EA?) triggered the opened-files-limit of Linux. 3D games ran fine before that.