New and Improved, with 300% more ads unrelated to classic. Thanks Blizzard!
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My favorite is when they advertise streamers who are contractually obliged never to say anything critical about their games. Ever.
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For real. I like that the launcher shows my friends list but I really don’t want to see a shadowlands ad. Would rather see stuff about classic.
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I hate how they’re shoving all of the modern wow stuff on the classic launcher. If I click hearthstone or overwatch tabs I don’t get junk about other games, and as far as I’m concerned modern wow is a different game.
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So ignore the junk and launch the game and minimize the launcher. You’re crying over something extremely trivial and petty.
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Didn’t even know it was updated. Saw this thread and updated it. Ugh, this Activision Launcher is so ugly. So much crap I don’t care about thrown in my face. Just like the Retail game.
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The extremely aggressive cross-game marketing and irrelevant news being posted on the Classic “page” of the launcher is not trivial or petty.
It’s incredibly obnoxious. No one playing Classic cares that the 3rd wing of LFR Castle Nathria is out.
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It is trivial.
No matter how much they advertise oversized 4WD’s in media i’m never going to buy one. I have my car and until it dies or gets too expensive to maintain I’m not going to replace it.
You do realise they advertise the different classic phases on the retail tab too right?
If you get that annoyed by advertising I’d hate to be you.
This is semi-relevant to the people who dabble in both as the third wing has the legendary thingies for some specs. Don’t speak for everyone, you just look foolish.
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If anything the launcher reminds me why I don’t play retail and enjoy classic
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Okay, to tie that into the original topic… no matter how much they advertise retail, I’m not going to play it… WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY I DON’T WANT TO SEE IT.
You provide the exact argument AGAINST this new launcher update.
And they shouldn’t. I’m not going to call any retail players petty for saying they don’t want to see Classic news on the retail launcher page.
Are you trying to justify a bad thing with the reverse, or is there more to your argument?
That’s nice, but it has nothing to do with Classic, which was the point. If you’re playing retail, obviously that news would be of interest to you.
For people who play both, they can simply see the news for retail on the retail page, and Classic news on the Classic page.
What is so problematic about that?
Personally, I find cross-game promotions to be extremely annoying and predatory. It’s indicative of really horrible business practices: a cyclical “check out this other game we have” to keep you paying money for a game you’re not really that interested in because it’s either giving you something in the game you actually care about or something along those lines.
For anyone who is actually interested in both, promoting the two on each other’s platform is entirely unnecessary, so it’s only a negative. Retail-only players hate seeing Classic news, Classic-only players hate seeing retail news. Anyone who plays both checks both pages already, so will see the news for both.
Sort of like saying something is trivial in response to a thread complaining about something?
I’d argue the pervasiveness of advertising and the bloated launcher is a problem that is of significance. While the launcher itself may seem insignificant, its recent update certainly been met with lots of negative feedback. I imagine a lot of people aren’t capable of articulating exactly why they don’t like it; they simply know that they don’t.
It auto plays videos. It’s bloated and takes up way too much unnecessary screen space. It pumps news into your face that doesn’t interest you, or at the very least is not relevant to the game you have selected (I don’t expect Black Ops 3 news in my WoW Classic news feed, so why should I expect retail news).
On top of all that, I just dislike the design. I think it’s of substantially poorer quality. I just don’t think there’s a lot of substance to that argument since it’s subjective.
I can at least make a logical argument for wanting to see relevant news on each game’s page and how retail and Classic are separate games. I could argue, logically, that one should be able to opt out of the advertisements and news entirely, which is what I was doing.
Edit:
You realize there’s an entire industry whose money-making model is designed around annoying people with advertisements and making people pay to remove them?
People don’t like advertisements.
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the bright orange on the left side contrasting with the dark blue burns my eyeballs
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You are complaining that blizzard is advertising there games. Get a life lol
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There is no classic page there’s a WoW page and unlike retail classic doesn’t have news very often.
If when TBC classic is announced we’ll see stuff related to that, just like how when Naxx launched that was on the launcher.
Im not a fan of retail either, but i don’t get triggered into a nerd rage seeing news about retail in the launcher that i look at for all of 5-10 seconds
Like seriously how are people this butthurt about blizzard showing retail wow related news in the world of warcraft section of the launcher? Are you nerds really that bored and desperate to be petty at everything blizzard does?
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Considering how Blizzard has allowed classic to rot from within with little action towards gold buyers and the hackers and bots the gold buyers employ why would they think I want to purchase any of their other products? You just want my money and you aren’t even willing to earn it.
You act like them posting news on the launcher for new retail things has anything to do with classic at all
No. I’m complaining that the news for retail shows up on the Classic page of the launcher.
Learn to read.
That’s rather reductive. People don’t like the look of the launcher, and they just aren’t interested in seeing news about retail.
No one is “triggered” by it. There’s no nerd rage.
I, in particular, am just annoyed with advertising in general. Pointing that out in a relevant thread is far from “nerd rage.”
OP: “I don’t like this thing.”
Me: “Yeah, me either. It’s kind of annoying.”
You: “NERD RAGE! TRIGGERED! BUTTHURT! NERD!”
Grow up.
No, it has exactly NOTHING to do with Classic at all, which is why we don’t like it.
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I like the launcher fine. It seems to be more optimized, bigger, better, everything. It’s still as easy as ever to start the game, though I admit I miss the days when I could just double-click the shortcut on my desktop and open the game directly.
Always been the case, nothing about the new launcher changed that.
I like that the patch note history is right there now too I don’t remember that in the old launcher.
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You still can. Just make a shortcut to the .exe and use that.
I like using the launcher mostly because it remembers my login details, but I just dislike the mobile-esque design.
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