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what a genius, he should work for CCP...

Constructive feedback to CCP regarding the launcher, it's deployment and the way they broke it:

1. The launcher was not broken, ergo there were no reasons to change it. The change has not improved anything for any player, therefore it should not have been deployed.

2. When I launch eve (i.e. what a launcher should do) I don't want to have to log in to the launcher first, then have it validate my client, then log out, then log in, then have it validate my client again, to launch a second instance of Eve.

3. Validation appears to take much longer now than it used to; presumably due to bad code

4. You should NEVER release anything where there are known problems, but also known (but unpublicised) workarounds. You should be making the game easy to at least log into, if not to play.

5. Don't bother releasing anything to the test server and asking for feedback, if you are just going to release a daft, and broken piece of code anyway.

6. Don't release an update that disrupts or changes in any significant way, how a player logs into the game. And don't do it 2 weeks before a large patch is due to be released.

7. Any update should change only the very minimal of my saved settings. Any update that changes things like chat windows, should automatically fail QA, even if there is an unpublished workaround.

8. Whoever made the call to release it, should not work for CCP. Tell the players who they are, and they will drive them out of the business so you don't have to fire them.

9. NEVER EVER tell your customer base to use a workaround. Fix your software rather than helping them avoid having to use it.

I use two vastly different systems for my multiboxing. One happily runs 3 clients windowed at max settings without a hitch. The other is a laptop from 2006. The last thing I want is for my settings from either of those transferring to the other. If I wanted them mirrored I'd copy the files over. Putting that "in the cloud" (Nice buzzword, did marketing tell you to say that?) would either fry my old PC or cause much frustration on the new as graphics settings, window setups appropriate to the differing screen sizes, and overview and bracket setings designed to work with what each machine can handle are suddenly shuffled over to computers that have no business using them.

This is what I thought CCP meant when they said "Single Sign-On":

1. I would be able to consolidate my four accounts into a single account.
2. All my current characters would be listed for play under that single account.
3. If I want more characters I spend another $15 a month for 3 more just like today.
4. If I want to log into another character I would click "LOG OFF" and then be taken back to the character selection screen.

Why is this so hard? This is what it sounded like you guys were talking about at fanfest. Who dropped the ball?

Edit: Oh I forgot. I would be able to play one character out of each group of three simultaneously just like today. Along with training, etc.

It's like the jukebox. Worked well enough, was useful and got removed just because and forget to ever see it again.

We are back to the CCP motto: "This is AWESOME!".

I was just thinking the same thing lol. I think he is just trolling because nobody in their right mind would do that.

3 things.

1. It would be nice if the Auto-Type function from my password manager works for the eve launcher. It works with other launchers, so yes it's possible. That would save me a few copy/paste, clicks and some mouse movement.

2. Too much unnecessary information on the launcher. I count 13 links. I'm happy with my firefox browser and my bookmarks. Sorry CCP but I don't need a game launcher for that.

2. When I quit the game and close the launcher it actually doesn't close. The launcher screen is gone, but I have end the process with my task manager. If I don't do that I can't reopen the launcher again, for a second eve session (although it loads the process in the background)
The first time, when I didn't knew what's going on, I had like 6 launchers running in the background. I kept pressing the shortcut for the launcher because nothing was happening.

Technically speaking, maybe the new launcher is a step in the right direction. But so far as a customer I'm not impressed.

So I'm back from work... Should I click Eve icon today? Dare I accept this challenge?

Edit:

I dared...

Dev(s) responsible for this frakkup should be taken outside and shot repeatedly with snowballs. Hard iced snowballs.

I wonder which one of your magical metrics pointed to launcher as "must be derped ASAP".

This whole story is again so depressing...

Why is it "WE THE PLAYERS" have to explain to CCP how the game is played?

If it is true that nobody has thought about multiboxing when such ideas as the new launcher and future things like cloud storage come up that won't work if you use different computers and operating systems with multiple accounts, then just tell everybody that 10 years was enough fun and it is time to move on to other games.

CCP : I'm probably rightly called a number one fanboy. Back in the Summer of Rage I had death threats (in game) for sticking up for you, even though I thought the CQ was underwhelming.

It might be a bit embarassing to have to rollback the launcher changes but on balance I think it would be the right thing to do.

The lack of a logoff button when using the launcher is not good.

The reason why I would argue for a rollback is that the current situation really looks bad for people just starting to play.