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"The new login functionality that we deployed today is designed to start changing the way users log into the EVE Universe; whilst it is often true that one shouldn't change something if it isn't broken, such a cliché doesn't allow for changing priorities. "

That is some PR censored garbage if I ever read any. Tell me, just what exactly are the priorities for Eve, or do they not tell you that? Even if the launcher worked, all it is is a billboard to advertise to people WHO ALREADY GIVE YOU MONEY, any claims of added functionality is a thinly veiled lie. The only reason you would make a launcher like this is if you're already planning to try to roll out microtransactions yet again and pay to win as per the Dust model.

You say you as a company have changing priorities, and it is apparent that the priority has shifted away from making the best space sandbox imaginable, to making a fuckton of money off of 12 year old newfags, to put it candidly.

Edit: Want more evidence? Look at some of the recent UI changes that didn't need to happen. They changed the names of missles and prop mods for no reason, they've rolled out major skill overhauls several times and are about to again, they're making it easier to make babysitting cap alts, and they keep making pvp more cookiecutter by being EFT warriors, they even tried taking away ship spinning, and when that didn't work they changed the hangar. Now they're making the game itself work more like every other game, and introducing a console shooter (a market dominated by minors and people generally deemed undesirable to the Eve community).

We as Eve players have always prided ourselves on some level for being ahead and above the rest of the gaming community in intellect, competence, and maturity; these changes only detract from that, making Eve easier by giving it the nerf treatment under the guise of 'accessibility to new players'.

All of that would even be fine if for the fact that it didn't detract from Eve's bread and butter, being internet spaceships, which it clearly has. The past few expansions and patches have had little to no new content, and were merely filled with recycled and regurgitated content, thus making it obvious that overhead is being shifted away from Eve development.

Given all of this evidence, the only conclusions one can draw is that CCP no longer cares about Eve as much as they should, if at all (at best), or that they're about to scrap the subscription model and go all out with the selling of pay to win and bunny hats in a free game (at worst, and vastly more profitable in the short term).

does this mean that having own installation to every account is fastest way to log in all accounts?

The logs show nothing.

rather than focus on this stupid sso BS. why dont ya focus on allowing us to export every little setting in eve with a few clicks. so that way i can have a hard copy when you decide to go crazy and screw everyone

I just lost settings for 8 accounts. Wonderful. There's nothing like an 8 year vet getting the "new game" movie again.

C'mon CCP, don't. delete. user. settings.

New launcher is a logical step, but seriously...

(and please implement log out to char select and better multi-account support)

I'll probably be slightly pissed off for the next 30 minutes, could have been worse I suppose

I sincerely hope this is not what to expect come June 4th. As this launcher is garbage.

A. I lost all my logins, (multiple accounts) . I had them written down so not huge at first, but then I start logging in characters only to find all settings reverted,

B. all chats gone.

C. audio, graphic and that clusterfrack station environment all at max and on. One of my PCs had a panic attack from the resource starvation this caused. Ok its a piece of junk, but still.

D. All characters are in this state, thanks for letting me play organizer today, I really had that planned! sarcasm off.

I like the new launcher.

These are not words you say to people who payed money for a working game. These words are the ones you tell the testers so that by the time it gets to us people paying money, it runs smooth and we don't have to check forums, file reports or attach logs.

Is that not obvious?

sorry but our logs show nothing.

''The new login functionality that we deployed today is designed to start changing the way users log into the EVE Universe; whilst it is often true that one shouldn't change something if it isn't broken, such a cliché doesn't allow for changing priorities. Our goal was that by rolling out the new login method, and supporting the single sign on service, we could lay the groundwork to start moving people away from the messy multiboxing setups that have traditionally never been supported by us as a company, and towards something that makes more sense for CCP and the services we provide.''

Will you justify the above paragraph to the players, you have for years promoted multiple accounts, in fact in the upcoming iteration of EVE you have stated that players will be allowed to train multiple characters on multiple accounts, yet if I read into what you have written the correct message you wish to convey CCP is now backing away from allowing players to use multiple accounts at one and the same time by making such a method of play so difficult as to become useless, rather goes against the historical ethos of EVE in my view.

There is no Clich'e in this thread that I can detect, you took what was a fully functional and perfectly acceptable log in procedure and replaced it with one that you were fully aware was broken, not only that but even if by chance you got it to work was by it's very nature going to reduce functionality and degrade performance for players, this was explained to you in detail when you introduced it to SISI by players that found it problematic on multiple levels and yet here we are again on TQ with more broken and badly thought through aspects of the game forced onto players for no good or fully explained reasoning.

Again it does not look very good for the next iteration of EVE if this is the state of CCP Devs coding and design does it really.

CCP Devs seem to take exception to the term ' if it is not broken then do not fix it ', but the phrase developed through sound and logical thinking into one of ' Only make change if is for the better not simply because you can '. in this case the later seems better to fit what CCP is doing currently and failing at miserably.