Blizzards new desktop application - useless or useless?

[Dante]

I don't think it's so bad

[Harambeqt]

Useless junk is useless.

[Deathshiver]

Making a lot of assumptions before we know anything about it. From blue posts, it appears as though you don't actually have to use the launcher if you don't want to, games can be run without starting it.

[xsx]

Origin v2 right?

[wowsc4p3]

Garbageware?
Consider a public library.
If you want to borrow a book, you'd go into the library. Just because you only want ONE book, it doesn't mean that the fact the library is there it's bad.
I mean, yes, if it was just a pedestal with the one book you wanted to borrow on, that'd be fine, but in my opinion, These launcher platforms are a convenient way of managing games. It's hellishly more easy than finding the floppy, ejecting the last one and putting it in.
Desperate attempt at an article, imo.

[sovoki]

i like it =) mate

[Fisher]

Garbageware?
Consider a public library.
If you want to borrow a book, you'd go into the library. Just because you only want ONE book, it doesn't mean that the fact the library is there it's bad.
I mean, yes, if it was just a pedestal with the one book you wanted to borrow on, that'd be fine, but in my opinion, These launcher platforms are a convenient way of managing games. It's hellishly more easy than finding the floppy, ejecting the last one and putting it in.
Desperate attempt at an article, imo.

True, but I can go to a bookstore and buy a book, or borrow it from a friend, removing the library out of the equation. I don't have that choice when it comes to Steam games. Libraries aren't forced, as there are other ways to obtain a book (noted in the beginning of this comment), however, if you wanna play Dota 2, you have to run Steam and that's it. They don't manage games, you press play instead of using the .exe and that's it, but the software itself will continue to use your resources. When Origin was released it simply didn't work, a very vast group of consumers was complaining and it took time to get it done right. Might be the same with this. I'm simply showing you what's coming, discussing what I've seen done with these things before and speculating on what Blizzard may or may not do. I've no idea why is that desperate.

[Maisteri]

Does it not bother you do install all that garbageware just so you could play a game?

Not really. It's not like it will hog all my CPU and RAM. And anyways, there is still plenty of games that don't require platforms]

I can go to a bookstore and buy a book, or borrow it from a friend, removing the library out of the equation. I don't have that choice when it comes to Steam games.

Seriously? There are plenty steam games that you can buy from elsewhere and they won't require you to run steam (Arma 2 as an example) Valve games will obviously always be in Steam because it's Valves own software and it makes them money.

software itself will continue to use your resources.

Big deal? If you're playing games on the computer, a program eating few megabytes of your RAM won't hinder your performance at all.

When Origin was released it simply didn't work, a very vast group of consumers was complaining and it took time to get it done right.

Newsflash! New software might be buggy and it might take time to get it working properly under heavy consumer usage.

All in all I think platforms are good for managing and buying games but they kind of lose their meaning if every company pushes out their own platform for their own games only.

[Jaerin]

I actually really like Steam. It has compelled me to purchase more games than I can count. I hated having boxes and disks of software that were useless 10 minutes after loading up the game.

The launchers don't bother me, the auto updaters that adobe, Itunes, and so many other applications install piss me off though. Scan for updates when I load the software, but don't go running tasks all the time just to check for stupid updates.

Launchers give them the ability to highlight deals and sales when you enter the game. I'd very much rather have the ads there than in game itself.

[xiongyunqiang]

if the platform is govenered and related, I would choose it;if not I regard it as garbageware

[TehVoyager]

My main concern is the desktop app will start being used to detect things like PQR or Turbohud..