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Can you remain Playing STO, without ARC please ?

allfather777allfather777 Member Posts: 293 Arc User
edited March 2014 in The Academy
Hi Sir, :D

Can you remain playing Star Trek Online without ARC please ?

Thanks in advance for your answers ! :)


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  • qqqqiiqqqqii Member Posts: 482 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Nope. Once they made Arc a required part of the game install process, every new player was stuck with it. When they finally get around to making it required for everyone, I'll be gone. I refuse to run a piece of malware/spyware to run a game, too.

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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    You can use Steam if you don't like Arc. Those are your only options though once they phase out the standard launcher.
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  • jacqueline3752jacqueline3752 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    or find the game in store or ebay and buy it and install it from the cd
  • notorycznynotoryczny Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    You can use Steam if you don't like Arc. Those are your only options though once they phase out the standard launcher.

    I suppose they will withdraw from Steam when they force-feed ARC to everyone.

    As for now, I found an old 12mb (or maybe 20mb) downloader/launcher and going to stick with it if I have to reinstall.

    As for comparision ARC/non-ARC - my GF plays some other PWE games, so her PC has to have ARC. This is how I got STO ARC rewards too. Anyway, I will avoid ARC as long as its possible. When they force it onto everyone, chances are I will be ripe for leaving STO anyway because of what "system designers" are doing to make this game "better".
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  • edgecrysgeredgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    You can use Steam if you don't like Arc. Those are your only options though once they phase out the standard launcher.

    You dont need any front-end right now. Just the STO launcher. Im playing without steam or arc"agh!" since i started almost 1 year ago. Never used steam or arc.

    But yes, when the time comes, everybody will have to use arc, even if you already have it on steam.. :mad:
  • qqqqiiqqqqii Member Posts: 482 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    You can use Steam if you don't like Arc. Those are your only options though once they phase out the standard launcher.
    I don't use Steam, for the same reasons. And once those are the only two options (or one, if they ram Arc down everyone's necks), I'll be taking the third path.
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  • catliketypingcatliketyping Member Posts: 611
    edited March 2014
    qqqqii wrote: »
    I don't use Steam, for the same reasons. And once those are the only two options (or one, if they ram Arc down everyone's necks), I'll be taking the third path.

    I have grown to like Steam if only for crazy sales events and some early access projects. I wont advertise those here, however.

    When i am on the road, i dont even connect to Steam to play STO. I leave Steam in Offline mode (safer that way) and it still launches STO. Since patching is done by the STO launcher, I dont need the Steam connection to update and run STO.

    I suspect Steam will stay on as a delivery method for PWE's STO if only to help provide a gateway to their newer Arc-only games. Steam has a much bigger audience, and STO is still a prominent fixture on their MMO page.
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  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Okay folks, the person asked if you can or can't play STO without ARC.

    The answer is somewhat. You can use steam, or you can grab the official launcher from a cd or some such and just run that.

    Before this gets flooded with ARC opinions i'm going to close this down since the OP's question has been answered.
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