Jita Park Speakers Corner

Goodbye old login screen, now I can get into the actual gameplay much faster, instead of being forced to look at a splash screen while the hamster spins up the wheel.

What a bunch of crap.

Thought (and said) Malcanis degraded from his own self but I see he's not alone.


Stop the groupthink.


Fear of change? Easier character switching?


Yes we have fear of garbage changes. Incarna like changes. Did YOU love the Incarna change being showed down your throat?

The log in screen is ICONIC of EvE.

It's like you added an huge dildo on Michelangelo's masterpiece and then told everyone that's change is good (sounds a bit like GREED IS GOOD, doesn't it?)


As for the easier character switching, I play EvE on 5 different computers in 2 places, I REALLY want to see how easy it'll be to start a cloud stored settings client into 5 different PCs each with its own graphics preferences, screen resolution and other.

CCP are treading with some dangerous stuff here, we large multi-accounters have no issue with the subs money but if they make logging in a PITA then they can be sure they are going to lose over it.

Actually posts from people who don't have any idea about incoming changes are more hilarious.
"Just launch eve via exefile" will go.
It stays here only as temporary failsafe solution in case something goes terribly wrong (like yesterday).
There will be no new music, no new scene and you wont be able to run from evefile directly.

Now I even doubt that CCP plans to spend few hours for lazy-ass change of skybox and logo for Odyssey release - we might have old Retribution scene because no one cares anymore.

I really like this idea, I will bring it up with the appropriate team.

And many more things WRT launcher and login will change before that happens.
You can't really panic about having that stuff removed when you have no idea what's going to replace it.
CCP is fond of their art, it's asinine to think they'd throw it away for whatever reason.

"IDEA"?

You mean to say that this wasn't part of your plan after removing the login screen?

WTF IS GOING ON HERE?

Thank you. Obviously we won't tell you how to do your job (too often), but keeping the iconic "welcome" screen should be in the best interest of everyone artsy. Such screens are a psychological need after the unavoidable backlash caused by launcher behavior (every launcher behavior, not just EVE's) as it's not funny nor mood-setting to press button, wait wait wait for update/connection stuff, press button again and eventually get bacon. A "welcome" screen allows the player to shift back into "game mode".

As EVE goes, the animated login screen was liked to the point that leaking it from Sisi and rating/commenting it was one of the player-made hype routines before each expansion. May not be the 20th nor the 100th most important thing to do in EVE, but it still is important, and in terms of NPE, it's worth its weight in gold. I *STILL* remember the first time I opened the client and was welcomed by the image of a planet being bombarded from space. It was like "woah, where i am getting into?".

And one doesn't get into the MOMA by greeting folks with some white bars on a black screen and then a blatant "formality" screen...

You mean just the last of a 2 years long number of feature-reducing / dumbing down changes that are making EvE more and more less EvE?

You mean removing the brand off a product strongly characterized by its brand?

Yes, it's definitely minor.

So tell me, when would be the right "time to panic"? When tomorrow suddenly you won't be able to load evefile.exe and launcher will remain same?
Was is right time to "panic" when CCP silently removed Jukebox once and for all, because "it consumed too many developer resources"?
Maybe now it's right time to panic, looking at CCP Navigator's CCP Explorer 's post where he expresses dislike to calculator\notepad existence or should we wait while those tools will be gone?

But you can keep advocating every single change with happy smile ofc.