Shortcuts do not actually start the games

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I don’t know if this is identical behaviour to the current stable version since I never really considered using it, but in the beta version the Desktop shortcuts created by the app (coghweel next to play button -> create desktop shortcut) don’t actually start the game, they just launch the launcher and open the game’s tab.

Suggestion:
The shortcuts should start the launcher (if not running), log-in automatically (if configured to do so) and then start the game using the same login details. Much like what happens with shortcuts to games made by eg. Steam.

There should be option to automatically minimize the launcher after launching the game, too.

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The stable version is for sure the same way. The shortcuts are useless to me. +1

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This function is completely worthless if it doesn’t execute the game itself.

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In the ol’ days, the shortcuts did actually launch the games directly. Now a days however, it seems they’re more obsolete remnants left over from those times.

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I’d like to bump this thread. Make it so that the link launches the game and not the library application.

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D:\World of Warcraft_retail_

would contain the right wow.exe, once launched in admin mode, you hit your windows key and pin that program to your task bar, you will have too physically log on, but there you go

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but any program anywhere else uses shortcuts why break something so easy

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Nearly four years later this is still a problem.

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How is Battle.net so half-finished? Has anyone found a way to fix this?

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Nope, still haven’t lmao. Sorry for the late response.

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I will celebrate when there’s layoffs at Blizzard. Bunch of incompetents *****. Can’t program something so basic.

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It’s crazy to be honest.

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Would also be nice if the Battle.net App wouldn’t either show the logging in popup or ask me to re-login every time it wakes from sleep …
Just… stay logged in ? Save Credentials to the Credential Manager or whatever.

That re-logging in and non-working shortcuts are still an issue … How

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The relogging is an edge case specific to Sleep only. It otherwise works at all other times. As for how it doesn’t, no one on the outside can say, but typically comes down to priority. If issues don’t break the launcher’s functionality and/or they have a simple enough workaround, they are often given lower priority.

The shortcuts I explained above. The don’t launch the individual games anymore, by design. In other words, they are working as intended. Thus it isn’t an issue that needs addressing.

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The don’t launch the individual games anymore, by design. In other words, they are working as intended. Thus it isn’t an issue that needs addressing.

It is a stupid design. What do you think it’s the purpose of shortcuts? Make you take extra steps to launch the program you used the shortcut for? Who does that?!

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The games require the launcher. The launcher updates the games, and none of the online games will run unless they are up to date.

So it’s not extra steps, fede. Either use the launcher’s shortcut to open the launcher, or use the game’s shortcut to open the launcher.

Those who push updates to online services through the internet

As I said further up the thread, they are remnants of an obsolete system. Disable the option to create them if they aren’t desired.

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Whatever changed with the launcher in the last few updates made this process a lot more tedious than it needs to be. It used to be when I clicked on the Diablo 4 shortcut, I would get the annoying Battlenet launcher, but then I could click play and go into the game. Now it takes me to some store homepage and I have to select the game on the top left of the launcher and choose play. From there it takes me to the D4 screen I had previously so I could click play. This experience is just getting worse. Taking me to some shop homepage to list all the Blizzard games is not going to make me want to buy a game. Quite the opposite. I will never again buy a Blizzard game because of how bad you screwed up this forced launcher. There is no reason that you cannot have a service that runs when the game starts that logs you in, verifies your account and then starts the game. That is the way it is on the consoles. They do not need these extra steps. Why does the PC version?