Please, I beg of you, do not add a launcher. More clutter and steps will only frustrate me more that I already am.
I have already uninstalled CE once - this needless addition would be CE’s death knell and absolutely prevent me from purchasing any DLC.
I don’t need a new (or another) launcher. Steam will suffice. Everything we need is already there.
Please, for the love of god NO!!! We already have a launcher it’s called steam!
Even though I’m not an active user on the forum, I always like to check what’s going on in the game, and when I saw the news from the laucher … I had to log in to add my voice to all the others who just don’t want it!
#nolauncher
I strongly suggest to add a “modify Modlist” section to the launcher. In this way you can save a whole startup cycle.
At a first glance the launcher looks nice and clean, guess features will be added/improved over time and there’s a reason to keep things basic for now to get things rolling. Generally agree with @Multigun’s feedback and suggestions regarding mods, content tab etc.
Having the latest patch notes and all social channels in one place and easy to find is definitely helpful. Personally would prefer to find several latest news, patch updates etc. on the first tab (currently Game) and rather move trailers etc. under another tab/or make them smaller/or link to them instead with text. In short, have the most important stuff more prominently featured.
Two additional suggestion:
Half the people in this thread are conveniently brand new, first time posters. I wonder if this has anything to do with a certain youtuber using his influence to pressure and bully the rest of the community into agreeing with him…
That being said, I’m not the biggest fan of a launcher either. I think I know why you’re actually doing it, but we could use some clarification because as of now it seems relatively unnecessary.
Please no more launchers guys!!
No thanks. Use your time on something useful instead. I dont want more launchers
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Ranting aside, if Launcher is via Steam and not separate to Steam, cleans out of memory before Conan Exiles game starts (and exits), then I will grumble and tolerate it - but, if it becomes a standalone Launcher outside of the Steam environment, that will be an issue for peeps reliant on Steam.
If this converts to a non-Steam Launcher after ‘trialling’ from within Steam, like other game providers have done, then no.
From the comments already listed in here, and via the Discord and Streaming platforms - and from the next room by the sounds of it - making a Launcher outside of Steam will likely have many negative repercussions.
I do not play games from outside of Steam. I use a PC so that is a thing for me. Most games I have abandoned that have unique Launchers have been dropped because of the tedium of spam adverts, etc. - and on two cases because the Launchers breached laws in the countries I was in at the time.
The guess is that this idea stems from the 2020 FunCom and not the 2019 FunCom.
100% agree. I’m hoping it stays in steam, and is used as a better way to deliver dlc, news, and mod support. Game could benefit from those options. If they leave it as is now, or do remove it from steam, I’d be unhappy as well. Not 20 minute long complaint video about it unhappy, but still.
Discord didn’t send this army of angry newcomers, give all credit where due here to the big man himself.
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We don’t need to test a new launcher to form an opinion on it. As I said, and almost everyone else, it doesn’t matter what the launcher does, we’re just tired of having to have a bunch of different launchers. I passed on many games that I was extremely excited for because of the fact that they were Epic exclusives or were otherwise bound to some launcher other than Steam. This includes launchers that pop up after starting the game in Steam, such as Ubisoft’s launcher etc…
Edit: after browsing some other comments, apparently some people are entertaining some kind of conspiracy theory that “all the new accounts” are some kind of raid from discord or YouTube.
Let me be clear: I came here after reading the news about this launcher on Funcom’s own website, which brought me to this thread. I was not told to comment against the new launcher, I saw this new “feature” and found it utterly distasteful enough to make an account and comment here.
Maybe people are just sick and tired of this crap. Every company and their mother has a freaking launcher or store or whatever running in the background and people are getting sick and tired of it.
Ask yourself, if you imagine a conspiracy:
Is it possible that maybe, just maybe, the greater Conan community outside of this forum’s tiny minority community (of mostly PvE fanboys) might actually just hate the idea of yet another launcher running in the background? Especially given the possibility for Tencent owning Funcom entirely in the near future?
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I made an account in order to comment on this topic.
Please don’t force another launcher on us.
Conan Exiles already takes enough time to load as it is. No other game in my collection takes as long as Conan, except for those with their own launchers.
It’s unnecessary bloat to the run process and game install, while simultaneously being a waste of development energy in a game which is considered seriously unbalanced and broken by the wider survival community.
I like Conan and despite its deep flaws I prefer it over other games like Ark and Rust, and I keep playing because I’m hoping it’ll eventually get better. But the recent news of a DLC map and now a new launcher… its wearing on my patience, and I’m growing tired of waiting for the devs to fix core gameplay issues in the face of these (apparently) greedy and controlling moves.
Funcom, you’re not a AAA studio. You can’t get away with the kind of bs companies like EA and Acti-Blizz can. You can only thrive on good gaming content and community good will.
Turn back, please.
Just here to “vote” NO to the launcher. Don’t want it. Don’t need it. The time and resources spent on it could have been much better spent on bug fixes and new content.
Oh, and my forum account is not new. But yes I came here after watching a certain YouTuber’s Video on the subject. That’s one of my primary sources of news on the game. Nothing wrong with that. After watching his videos I look for other videos on the same topic and watch them if I find them. Then I go read the patch notes, announcement, or whatever Funcom has put out about the subject. I form my own opinion (which does not always align with a certain YouTuber’s, though in this case it most certainly does).
I have over 3k hours on conan exiles and have bought every dlc so far if you push this launcher i will be uninstalling the game and not buying anything else from you i have passed on many games that require a launcher and will always pass on games that require it so please do not do this i enjoy this game
Yes you do. You don’t need to test it to form an opinion on Launchers in general, sure, but that also devalues your opinion somewhat.
Which is not to say that I’m head-over-heels in love with the idea of a separate Launcher for CE, either.
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Maybe you should test it and prove it.
People are annoyed at the prospect of another launcher, especially given the growing obsession companies have these days to gather telemetry and spy on their customers.
Maybe this launcher is completely benign. But people are growing tired of this stuff. It’s getting stupid. And it’s worse when companies go backward and implement this crap into established games. It often breaks stuff on unintended ways (Paradox literally broke their entire modding community for a while with their new launcher).
It’s unnecessary, and frankly, I don’t need to test anything to know this.
new accounts can be ignored because they’re new.
Stfu with your elitism. People dislike launchers. Period. And we have as much of a right to express that dislike to Funcom as you have to whine about PVE issues on this forum. Doesn’t matter if we made an account specifically to express our distaste over this issue.
I’d argue that it says more that we’ve taken the time to make an account to express our distaste, to actually end our silence on these forums and actually go out of our way to comment on this topic.
Edit: let me add that the snide and dismissive reaction to the new accounts here helps me better understand why the greater Conan community talks about this place so negatively. You people are so very welcoming (sic) and not at all engaging in gatekeeping behavior (also sic).
I don’t think you understand what my problem with the launcher is. I don’t care if it opens the game faster. I don’t care if it opens up immediately after I click my CE shortcut and steam does it’s thing. I’m tired of extra launchers. I no longer play ubisoft games that I have bought on steam because of the extra launcher. I don’t play EA games anymore because of both their launcher AND deceptive practices. I bought Jedi: Fallen Order on Steam without realizing it was going to open up Origin anyways, so I refunded the game. There are too many launchers out there and I’m honestly just tired of it, especially as more and more publishers make the same move.
So when you get a marketing email and you don’t want it, you have an “unsubscribe” option. What I would like is for Funcom to do something similar. Allow us to unsub from any marketing. I don’t need it. I buy all your DLCs. I buy them because I see the release notes here every day.
I don’t want extra bloatware running on my PC. The more of it you put on our PCs, the less resources we have for optimal game performance. Are you willing to reduce the quality of our game play for a marketing tool?
What I don’t like is getting marketing jammed at me for things I’ve already paid for and then being penalized for it at the same time.
I have not had a chance to download the new testlive update and launcher on my limited bandwidth (traveling right now) but I will in a few days to give some constructive feedback on how it all works.
You have a great game here. Don’t bury it in bloatware/adware.