Why do I have to use glyph if its on steam?

[Rainsford]

Makes no sense to have play the game through 2 parties through steam. I hate Trion after how poorly they dealt with archeage and dont want to use their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher with 4 games on it.

Just because you have multiple games by one company doesnt mean you need a launcher linked to all your games.

[Zarrath]

Poorly what with Archeage? I played AA ever since beta and through, didn't encounter many problems.

[neoVictrix]

Every publisher's pushed out their own digitial platform - there's some that have set their game to work through account linking with steam as so a launcher isn't needed to be downloaded, but the majority don't seem to do that.

So glyph needed to be downloaded. If you mean using a glyph account, well yeah. They need a way of being able to manage your account, transactions, and a way to keep you from playing on said account if a ban is needed or whatever.

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by Zarrath:

Poorly what with Archeage? I played AA ever since beta and through, didn't encounter many problems.

Hackers, Ruining the market by flooding it with TS trees just to name two.

[theblock111]

Originally posted by Rainsford:

Makes no sense to have play the game through 2 parties through steam. I hate Trion after how poorly they dealt with archeage and dont want to use their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher with 4 games on it.

Just because you have multiple games by one company doesnt mean you need a launcher linked to all your games.

because the game is only on that launcher
pluse we are with the website users so we need to make a account to go into the game and to play
that means we need to make a glyph account and use there launcher

[Raiden - In Flames 🎵]

who cares! :)

[Rainsford]

Me! Because along with steam, which has 99% of the games I play, I need glyph for this, origin for battlefield, gog galaxy for easy witcher updates. and thats just the ones i can think of right now, im sure there are plenty others. Its like voice chatting programs. everyone and their dog use a different one, mumble, skype, curse, teamspeak, ventrilo. Its rediculoso

[jiwas]

Originally posted by neoVictrix:

Every publisher's pushed out their own digitial platform - there's some that have set their game to work through account linking with steam as so a launcher isn't needed to be downloaded, but the majority don't seem to do that.

So glyph needed to be downloaded. If you mean using a glyph account, well yeah. They need a way of being able to manage your account, transactions, and a way to keep you from playing on said account if a ban is needed or whatever.

Can't a steam account do the same thing?

[jiwas]

Originally posted by Renzo:

who cares! :)

You need a completely different account. 𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒!

[neoVictrix]

Originally posted by EpicDude357:

Can't a steam account do the same thing?

As I mentioned in the previous post:

Originally posted by neoVictrix:

They need a way of being able to manage your account, transactions, and a way to keep you from playing on said account if a ban is needed or whatever.

[Six Cents of Humor]

For what it's worth, the glyph launcher that the steam versions of trion games use is different from the standard glyph launcher that you describe. the steam glyph launcher is tied specifically only to the game you launch and has the other games and the trion store access removed.

as far as I can tell, the only reason it needs to launch it this way is because the game is designed to only get login/auth info via the launcher and not in the game itself. heck, even back in the trove beta, for a long time there was an in-client login/password screen that simply did not work, because (I suspect) only the launcher could connect to the auth server.

Other Trion games on Steam do the same thing, at least the ones I've tried. I tend to still just use the standard non-steam glyph client anyway, though, since I was playing in beta before it was on steam. glyph is, thankfully, one of the less intrusive and slow launchers out there, so it doesn't bother me much. Origin is just kinda middle of the road, not good, but could be worse. the one that I really hate is Arc, for Perfect World's games. that one is utter mule butt chocolate.

[jiwas]

Originally posted by Six Cents of Humor:

For what it's worth, the glyph launcher that the steam versions of trion games use is different from the standard glyph launcher that you describe. the steam glyph launcher is tied specifically only to the game you launch and has the other games and the trion store access removed.

as far as I can tell, the only reason it needs to launch it this way is because the game is designed to only get login/auth info via the launcher and not in the game itself. heck, even back in the trove beta, for a long time there was an in-client login/password screen that simply did not work, because (I suspect) only the launcher could connect to the auth server.

Other Trion games on Steam do the same thing, at least the ones I've tried. I tend to still just use the standard non-steam glyph client anyway, though, since I was playing in beta before it was on steam. glyph is, thankfully, one of the less intrusive and slow launchers out there, so it doesn't bother me much. Origin is just kinda middle of the road, not good, but could be worse. the one that I really hate is Arc, for Perfect World's games. that one is utter mule butt chocolate.

oh ok i get it now thanks