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What is the Arc Client?
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Introducing Arc
pwebranflakes
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Arc brings together the best online gaming experiences from Perfect World Entertainment onto one easy-to-use platform.
Learn more about Arc here.
Learn more about Arc here.
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Mine Trap Supporter
Thanks, but no thanks.
So it's basically like steam but for PWE only? Kinda interesting concept. I'll download it, give it a try and give my impressions after I've looked at it.
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Please do! We'd love to hear your feedback.
Also, please note that most features are not available for STO yet, but we hope to be able to offer them in the future!
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
By the way, what ever happened to Core Connect integration?
Would be cool if this offers an easy way to keep in touch with friends in game, and chat in fleet channels etc.
Setting all of that up in Pidgin isn't the most straight-forward of methods.
[Edit] A bit of feedback:
The app allows users to set a directory, but that seems to be both the download and install directory. It's not clear.
It's great that Arc recognises I've already got certain games installed, and knows where they are - so I don't need to re-install via Arc.
It's also nice how clicking play seems to automatically log me in via the game's launcher - that removes a step.
Considering none of Cryptic's current MMOs even connect to; or put any achievements up on, or track leveling the PW "CORE" system, what's the point? I like only downloading a new patch when I want to log into a game; and Cryptiic's own launcher already has the capability to show all Cryptic games (if you want that).
Seems like bloatware to me unless you also play any PWE other games. YMMV.
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08
HOWEVER, for those of us that know the can of worms a platform of this type can unleash, no thank you, not now, not ever.
A village idiot with google and a couple of very easy to find programs can hack a password in minutes, now you're adding the ability to hack one password and gain access to multiple games. Unless you're going to remove the max characters allowed in a password, bad idea.
Integrated Web Browser: Considering PWE/Cryptic's obsolete stance on web browser compatibility this probably means forced IE, which as most everyone knows is one of the LEAST secured web browsers avail.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Nothing is changing at this point. Feel free to continue launching directly from the launcher
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Thank you very much for clarifying. Much appreciated.
Will it affect steam users though? Please advise as it affects financial possibilities within the game.
Thanks
If it automatically updated the game, thereby skipping need for a launcher altogether, I'd like it a LOT more.
Brandon please I'm begging you do NOT let them make this mandatory. Launch platforms like this take years to develop and even then the best developed ones are much easier to breach than a standard single game launcher.
"At this point"? "If that changes"?
I'm not exactly pleased to read this. The forced transition to a PWE account and the loss of our forums were bad enough. This "launcher" could be perceived by many as a barrier to entry in a game that already has more than its fair share of them.
Consider very carefully before making this mandatory.
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Stop the easily abused and unfair auto-silence "feature"!
Sounds good. I just took a quick look at it so here's some initial/first impression feedback.
Likes:
-First thought is that it look nice and clean. Not all flashy and right to the point.
-Color scheme is nice and easy on the eyes. I'm shadeblind so colors are always a big deal to me. I have no problems here.
-Being able to change the order of games in my Library is nice. I set STO to the top and now I always see STO related news upon opening Arc.
-The in-game overlay is nice and clean as well. The color scheme for me is a little bit difficult. Having a lighter background with dark text is a bit taxing on my eyes. I prefer a darker background with lighter text. This isn't a major deal though, I can make do with it just fine. Perhaps at some point maybe an option to switch between those two schemes?
-Allows me to clean out my desktop of all the launcher shortcuts to various PWE games. Rather than having one for STO and one for CO, I now just have the single Arc shortcut.
Dislikes:
- Upon launching a game through the Arc launcher it opens up the original game launcher and although it automatically logs me in, I still have to press the Engage button on the old launcher to actually launch the game. This makes Arc seem rather redundant since I have to go through the old launcher anyway. I would remove this step by seeing if you could somehow integrate the launch process into Arc itself rather then just being a portal to the original launcher. As it is now, it really isn't a launcher. It's really just a portal to the other launchers.
-Clicking the "X" makes it minimize to my tray instead of exiting Arc. To close it I have to click on the X and then go down to my tray, right click it, and then select Exit. I find this to be unnecessary and rather irritating as I would like my programs to close with just one step instead of 3.
Since STO isn't hooked up to the other features like Core Connect and the like as you mentioned in your post, I can't comment on those for the time being. I think this can work out very nicely, it just needs a little bit of tweaking.
Mine Trap Supporter
If it does thats the day i'm out of here for good. I don't want this kind of TRIBBLE on my system, period.
Gee, that was a concrete statement. I'm not stupid and neither are the people reading this - In other words its most likely going to change at some point. Sooner rather than later I would think
But here's hoping this doesn't become mandatory.
I do not want yet another steam-alike piece of spyware garbage. Why does every game company now feel they should have an always running background process running on my machine?
Woe betide you if this becomes mandatory. I have always, and will continue to, launch via Steam due to it's usefulness in both gaming and transactions. I'm very glad you've got something similar. But don't try to force it onto me, or i'm outta here.
I know this, at least in part, because all of the places where it is required to go through such a gateway to get to the game I spend less money, even if I like the game. It's not a conscious decision. It's just what it is. Hell, I don't even spend a lot of money on Steam (much less Origin) because I've had seven too many times when I just wanted to play the game on my computer but Steam wanted to be opened and updated before I could dare play Mass Effect 2, and God help me if there was some issue with my password. DLC feels like a chore to me.
And for the record, I like Steam.
(Cue all the folks telling me what a moron I am because I've had trouble with Steam in my life. C'est la vie.)
Seriously. Keep this ridiculous thing optional. Please. Pretty please.
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