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haxxsaw
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Why is Arc trying to force people to sign in with Facebook?
It is not going to happen with me. My personal business is my personal business. What I have on my Facebook page is none of you business Arc.
It is not going to happen with me. My personal business is my personal business. What I have on my Facebook page is none of you business Arc.
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Most things like this are promotions ... you get something or other for free and they get info about you that helps their marketing department to target you and your peers better.
It seems like they just snuck the requirement in. I did not mind using the launcher, by logging into my Arc account. But sometime very recently they changed it. If you want to log into the Arc launcher it has to be through Facebook, AND they do not give you the windows control to close the popup window. Like you said, I am now simply going to be logging into the game with the shortcut.
I just updated mine and it's like it always has been. There's an option to log in via Facebook at the bottom, but the normal login with account name or email remains where it's always been. Perhaps something got bugged with yours.
GG Arc, not.
Defending The Galaxy By Breaking One Starfleet Regulation After The Next.
Facebook.
Everywhere else, including Arc, it's optional. If you don't want to use it.. don't.
I have heard of facebook, I'm just not interested in social media.
Does thinking it was just a rehashed myspace when it was opened up to the (university going) public count?
Nope; having a low opinion of it isn't the same as pretending you've actually never heard of it. The former is very common, while the latter is just laughable.
Defending The Galaxy By Breaking One Starfleet Regulation After The Next.
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I've never seen Arc force me to log in using Facebook. OP must have done something for Arc to do that.
No, a hipster would use an open-source, organic social network that they found on an abandoned Geocities site and repurposed. It only runs on certain flavors of Linux. You probably haven't heard of it, because you only like popular things, and the hipster hasn't heard of Facebook, because hipsters stay away from popular things. A hipster who has heard of Facebook is unclean.
Open launcher C:/Program Files (x86)/Star Trek Online_en/Star Trek Online.exe.
Pin program to taskbar.
Subsequently, open launcher from taskbar.
I've looked at all the different avenues Arc asks for log-in. Not one forces a FB log-in. On all log-in pages you even have the option to 'REGISTER', which also does not direct you to FB.
Oh yeah, that's right! I still use the Cryptic launcher. So I don't have to worry about that kind of BS.
Thank you for the time...
Cryptic, would you actulaly like me to spend actual Money? It's Simple:
Until they make it so you can't use the individual launchers, like they said they would eventually do.
Not a huge fan of Arc, myself. But I drank the koolaid and that's how I launch now.
I dislike how the display of games I have no interest in playing overwhelm my personal library of the games I've actually installed, and I dislike the cluttered feel of the interface overall, but it does one thing well and that is that I don't have to re-log back in constantly to switch games and when I'm not in the process of launching a game it mostly stays out of my way and out of sight.
Arc is annoying, in that it shoves a whole lot of silly Asian fantasy games in my face: games I will never ever play. But Arc also logs me in automagically, and that is kinda handy.