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Sarmatiko
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Posted - 2013.06.16 11:29:00 -
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EVE need new launcher and it's actually good for client updating (ofc if we forget for a second about already existing excellent repair tool).
But feature implementation is horrible, and need of sudden forceful deployment is so unobvious that this turned into another trainwreck.
We already have alternative launchers (but with unclear position from CCP about this kind of software) with useful features and minimalistic interface (because some people just want to launch the game without loading landing web page through integrated Chrome).
Why this wasn't implemented in the new launcher in the first place to make this tool worthy?
Also I just want to remind everyone that it looks like current CSM position about this matter can be described with "HURR DURR MY LAUNCHER WORKS FINE" statement. Take notice for future.
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Sarmatiko
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Posted - 2013.06.16 12:24:00 -
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Mara Pahrdi wrote:That doesn't look like a launcher I'd like. Too much mouse handling.
Click on "Launch tickled" button and it will instantly launch any number of clients without even asking you login/password (because you will setup this only once)
One mouse click is too much for you? 
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Sarmatiko
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Posted - 2013.06.16 16:00:00 -
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Evei Shard wrote:What the launcher is really about is advertising. Marketing. Pushing specials and fluff in front of the players. With the launcher they get to parade around PLEX sales, the NEX Store, and a number of things that are not even Eve related (like other CCP Games).
Have to disagree here.
It's funny, because with removal of in-game login screen on the second plan, CCP have removed rather effective one-time splash advertisements that existed there for ages. Now devs moved them into the corner of character selection screen, so ads can be ignored just as easily as "world news" (because let's be honest - character selection screen is not the place one would stay for too long).
Of course maybe CCP internal metrics show other pictures, and minimalistic launcher ads have suddenly rised PLEX/other stuff sales through the roof..
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Sarmatiko
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Posted - 2013.06.17 16:39:00 -
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silens vesica wrote:bend your efferts towards forcing CCP to spend some dev time on making it less clunky and maybe a bit more attractive.
And we will see results of those efforts when exactly? It's not a secret that summer is an hibernate AT/summer vacations period for CCP and EVE development. So we can carefully assume that next feature iterations for EVE launcher will come not earlier than in September\October.
If that is true, then I wonder, why new launcher was pushed so forcefully before Odyssey, causing negative public reaction, if it simply could have been waited until autumn time or Winter expansion? 
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Sarmatiko
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Posted - 2013.06.17 18:17:00 -
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Kitty Bear wrote:the new system remembers different account names, just like the old one did
Remembering passwords is more useful for faster logins. And this was not implemented in supposedly "new" launcher.
Quote:the new system allows for multiboxing, just like the old one did
Exefile also "allows for multiboxing" in the same primitive way like in new launcher. You can start as many eve instances as you like, and login manually in all of them.
This is not "multibox friendly". Check eve-mlp UI screenshot to understand what exactly people demand from multibox friendly game launcher (one-click-launch-all-accounts, save passwords, different preferences for each client/account instance etc)
Quote:the new system is more streamlined, and uses a torrent process for patching afaik
No it's not. At least for now.
"New launcher" in a nutshell is basically zsync based Repair tool with Crome browser for UI and SSO for login.
People rised valid concern - why this launcher was forced now, if all new features will arrive only in unknown distant future? SSO mass test because Sisi feedback wasn't good enough?
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