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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9320478" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I do feel like the publishers who think "launchers" are a good idea have no real understanding of this issue.</p><p></p><p>Ubisoft is the best example for me - relevant to this thread - the Ubisoft launcher is particularly good at aggressively logging you out, forgetting your password, needing updates that take unreasonably and inexplicably long times, showing you adverts instead of your games, and just generally wasting your time and causing you to have to faff around. Unless you play an Ubisoft game like, every couple of days (and who does?) it <em>will</em> get you!</p><p></p><p>And it's a surprisingly huge discouragement to playing their games as you say. There have been genuinely many times when I wanted to play an Ubisoft game but then the launcher comes up, updates for far too long (it's a tiny amount of data, what is it even doing?), has forgotten my details and password, then it finally lets me in and doesn't even boot the game, but rather splashes me with adverts, and I have to either find the game icon on my desktop, or fiddle through the launcher until I get to the actual game. By which point actually playing the game seems a lot less fun. Several times I've just gone "Awww screw this" because it had forgotten my password.</p><p></p><p>It gradually wears you down and then makes you less likely to buy games from that publisher. It probably shouldn't, rationally, but it really is enough of a pain that seeing a game is Ubisoft makes me think twice about getting it.</p><p></p><p>With the Blizzard launcher I didn't find it as much of a PITA as the Ubisoft one, but it's still pretty good at doing annoying stuff like opening on a screen which isn't the game you wanted to play or last played, or shuffling the game icons around and hiding the one for the game you actually want to use, or another classic, you click on the game icon, but instead of it going to a page where you can press play, it goes to one where that button isn't present. And yeah I often forgot I even had D2: Resurrected because of that.</p><p></p><p>They think they're helping themselves out, but they're doing a tremendous job of making me just that little bit more reluctant to buy games from them, such that it defeats the "impulse buy" er impulse, and also devaluing their games so I'm much more likely to "wait for a sale" with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9320478, member: 18"] I do feel like the publishers who think "launchers" are a good idea have no real understanding of this issue. Ubisoft is the best example for me - relevant to this thread - the Ubisoft launcher is particularly good at aggressively logging you out, forgetting your password, needing updates that take unreasonably and inexplicably long times, showing you adverts instead of your games, and just generally wasting your time and causing you to have to faff around. Unless you play an Ubisoft game like, every couple of days (and who does?) it [I]will[/I] get you! And it's a surprisingly huge discouragement to playing their games as you say. There have been genuinely many times when I wanted to play an Ubisoft game but then the launcher comes up, updates for far too long (it's a tiny amount of data, what is it even doing?), has forgotten my details and password, then it finally lets me in and doesn't even boot the game, but rather splashes me with adverts, and I have to either find the game icon on my desktop, or fiddle through the launcher until I get to the actual game. By which point actually playing the game seems a lot less fun. Several times I've just gone "Awww screw this" because it had forgotten my password. It gradually wears you down and then makes you less likely to buy games from that publisher. It probably shouldn't, rationally, but it really is enough of a pain that seeing a game is Ubisoft makes me think twice about getting it. With the Blizzard launcher I didn't find it as much of a PITA as the Ubisoft one, but it's still pretty good at doing annoying stuff like opening on a screen which isn't the game you wanted to play or last played, or shuffling the game icons around and hiding the one for the game you actually want to use, or another classic, you click on the game icon, but instead of it going to a page where you can press play, it goes to one where that button isn't present. And yeah I often forgot I even had D2: Resurrected because of that. They think they're helping themselves out, but they're doing a tremendous job of making me just that little bit more reluctant to buy games from them, such that it defeats the "impulse buy" er impulse, and also devaluing their games so I'm much more likely to "wait for a sale" with them. [/QUOTE]
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