TOS at each login, ingame - why?

In a game that is so alt friendly, it's very cumbersome ; not to mention laggy for me. Why was this change necessary?

Very disappointed with the QoL in CoH lately. First the terrible new team window on I20 sneak peek, then the news that the NCSoft Launcher will be mandatory, and now this. It all seems to be more about *decreasing* quality of life than improving it.

Great to see they're really working hard to make that transition go as bad as possible.

Seems to me it would have made more sense to display it once, maybe right after the game is loaded, rather than at every login, but what do I know. I care about usability when interfaces are concerned, so I'm probably like a Praetorian version of the average NCSoft employee.

It would be ok if the "Exit to Character Select" option actually worked all the time. Most of the time (for my wife and I anyway) it either hangs for a very long time and/or just goes to the login screen with an "unable to connect" message.

We finally gave up and went back to using Exit to Login because it was faster to retype the password and select the server than it was to wait for the other option to finally decide it wasn't going to work.

What's the big deal? I downloaded the launcher today and ran it, and it worked fine. It costs you one extra click on the login screen, but it saves you a click on the loader utility. Plus, if I recall correctly, the loader better handles downloading and installing updates. And if you have other NCsoft games, you launch them all from the same utility. It seems to me that these are all good things, not bad. (Well, except the number of clicks, which comes out in the wash.)

One feature I'd like to see them add is a context menu on the system tray icon that would let you launch a game directly from the icon. Right now, it just has Open and Exit. It should also have City of Heroes, City of Heroes Test, and any other NCsoft games you have installed, so that you don't even have to hit the launcher icon to play.

"TOS ingame are slightly laggy on my computer and forces me to accept each time I login rather than only once at launcher in a doubleclick."

apparently leads to the answer

"OMG WTF why do you ***** about this for no reason STOP OVERREACTING what's the big deaaaaal rrrraaaarrrrgggghhhh *drops down with foam at the mouth*"

Fanboy goggles sure seem fun.

Meanwhile in the real world... Numerous factual complaints have been made about the NCSoft launcher, such as it being a performance hog, crashing, causing blue screens, and so on. Sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending the problems don't happen because they don't happen to you personally works when you're a toddler who doesn't want to eat his vegetables regardless of how many starving african kids stories mommy tells him, but it's kind of a silly attitude to have as an adult.

I disagree with the original poster; and judging by the increased patching, installing and loading speed of the game on my machine, the OP's complaint calls into question the age, maintenance and performance of his computer.

Beyond all that, the new launcher looks slick, as opposed to the unpolished launcher we're all used to. I've been playing MMORPGs for several years, and my first impression of the old launcher was not favorable compared to many other games I've seen. It looked like a slapped-together afterthought, unlike the NCSoft launcher, which is polished and well-designed.

I'm also impressed by the way the Terms Of Service has been designed into the UI itself. This is standard in many MMORPGs, and legally, it's just the smart thing to do for Paragon Studios and us players who like to play by the rules (and who would prefer that everyone else does too).

I understand this game is alt friendly, but do that many really alt out that constantly to dfferent characters to make hitting the ToS button over and over again a problem?

It's kinda like the quit to login.

I never saw the problem with it, because, okay, at most I was switching out every two hours. So what was the problem before?

For this to be a problem, I would think one would have to be logging out every 10 minutes.

Well, its a good thing to show the ToS, but it should be a one time thing. Once you've read it you shouldn't need to accept it each time. Only when it changes it should pop up again.

Bit annoying