Guild Wars 2

Anet recently added the Streaming Client feature, allowing you to download the game and its patches while playing the game. I hear that they removed it because they couldn’t find a way to update the game with this launcher in mind. But now that the Streaming Client feature is here, can Anet pls bring it back?

If you guys don’t know what this old login screen is, check this vid out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2qLcZAUfY

I probably doubt it at this point, but I would imagine they’ll put one for HOT.

Yes, I really hope so! I’ve been aswell wanting this login screen back since Beta. It’s soo beautiful And our currently one looks so boring!!

Plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz x9001
I want the beta log in screen so badly.

Riku.4821:

Plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz x9001
I want the beta log in screen so badly.

Even a specialist agrees!

I also second this motion!

+999999

Wasn’t it removed based on some security issues? Keyloggers able to hijack passwords and such?

I would love to have it back, but i doubt it will ever come back.

I am always for this thing. But they never listen.
In GW1 you have a nice login screen, all the news are on the bulletin board IN the login screen. It is certainly possible (other games have it *cough*WoW*cough*) I don’t see any reason why it should be a difficulty for GW2 :P

There is no old login screen…
The clip is showing a screen used in an early beta version. As this never has been the login screen for the live-game, it is also not the old screen.

Why didn’t this make it to the real game?
There must be a reason right? it looked way cooler.
The likely reason is that it is a security risk. That login screen was part of the game window. That means that hacking tools can target it directly. In the current situation, where the login is on a separate window, the gameclient itself doesn’t know anything bout your username and password. It only knows that the loginwindow has verified you and you are ok. That makes the current situation much more secure.

So as a loginscreen it is unlikely this will ever be introduced cause it means less security.

This doesn’t mean this should be abanded at all. I do believe this should be the ingame timeout screen (without the fields obviously).

currently when you time out, you go to the loginscreen. You have to remember what character you where on and click that character. It would make more sense to go to this screen. When you click anywhere, you will load back into the game, on the character you where on.