Wargaming Center Rant
Дата: 21.03.2019 20:06:18
DomoSapien: I removed a bit of profanity in your original post, but we don't
actually censor people for having negative opinions about us or our
products as long as the feedback is shared in a manner that doesn't
violate the forum rules.
To answer some of your questions: GoG, Epic, Steam - all of these are third party platforms and require substantial revenue sharing, API access, contracts, and additional obligations. It's not off the table (WoWS is on Steam so it wouldn't be an unprecedented move) but not in the current plans at this time, at least to my knowledge. Why does WGC install Russian Spyware: to my knowledge, it doesn't, but if you have any concerns you are more than welcome to submit a ticket to our Customer Support team for review. Your information security is among our utmost concerns. Why does it constantly update the game or the launcher: Well, it updates the game whenever the game is updating. If you have more than one Wargaming title installed, you're going to see more frequent updates since we don't typically synchronize our release cycle with our other products. !!A note about automatic updates!!: You can disable all of these via your settings. If you click the gear icon on the lefthand side of the launcher, then open up the 'updates' tab, make sure that 'automatically update installed games' and 'download updates in advance' are unchecked.
As to what was wrong with the old launcher/why we've been developing WGC for a few years: The old launcher was.. well, old. It doesn't look very great because it's been more or less unchanged since 2011, but WGC also provides a few advantages to players and a few advantages for us. For players, it offers the ability to have all your Wargaming titles under one centralized launcher that automatically keeps them up to date for you. It also offers the ability to save multiple accounts to one launcher and easily hotswap between them. If there is more than one Tanks player in your home using the same device, this feature might be useful to you. I use it to switch between my main account and Sheriff account when I'm streaming.
As for the advantages it offers us: including making all of the above more convenient for you, it gives us a more robust functionality for how we serve and spotlight content/news articles, and gives us better tracking metrics for clickthrough rates and traffic being driven from the launcher to the news portal. Essentially, it gives us a better idea of how many people are being directed to various news articles via the launcher, and improve the ways we publish new information so that it's more relevant to our players.
So, in a way, you're right: But the only thing we're spying on is what articles you are clicking on via the launcher.
To answer some of your questions: GoG, Epic, Steam - all of these are third party platforms and require substantial revenue sharing, API access, contracts, and additional obligations. It's not off the table (WoWS is on Steam so it wouldn't be an unprecedented move) but not in the current plans at this time, at least to my knowledge. Why does WGC install Russian Spyware: to my knowledge, it doesn't, but if you have any concerns you are more than welcome to submit a ticket to our Customer Support team for review. Your information security is among our utmost concerns. Why does it constantly update the game or the launcher: Well, it updates the game whenever the game is updating. If you have more than one Wargaming title installed, you're going to see more frequent updates since we don't typically synchronize our release cycle with our other products. !!A note about automatic updates!!: You can disable all of these via your settings. If you click the gear icon on the lefthand side of the launcher, then open up the 'updates' tab, make sure that 'automatically update installed games' and 'download updates in advance' are unchecked.
As to what was wrong with the old launcher/why we've been developing WGC for a few years: The old launcher was.. well, old. It doesn't look very great because it's been more or less unchanged since 2011, but WGC also provides a few advantages to players and a few advantages for us. For players, it offers the ability to have all your Wargaming titles under one centralized launcher that automatically keeps them up to date for you. It also offers the ability to save multiple accounts to one launcher and easily hotswap between them. If there is more than one Tanks player in your home using the same device, this feature might be useful to you. I use it to switch between my main account and Sheriff account when I'm streaming.
As for the advantages it offers us: including making all of the above more convenient for you, it gives us a more robust functionality for how we serve and spotlight content/news articles, and gives us better tracking metrics for clickthrough rates and traffic being driven from the launcher to the news portal. Essentially, it gives us a better idea of how many people are being directed to various news articles via the launcher, and improve the ways we publish new information so that it's more relevant to our players.
So, in a way, you're right: But the only thing we're spying on is what articles you are clicking on via the launcher.
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