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Posted by: Jimmus.2083

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Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

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Posted by: Tiresias.6473

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While I don’t necessarily disagree with you, I also don’t see them spending any development time on this issue.

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Posted by: Serenity.6135

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I am not crazy about the colors either, but I would rather they reduce the size because it is just too wide and goes past the edges of my screen. It gets annoying having to move it everytime.

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Posted by: SmirkDog.3160

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I am not crazy about the colors either, but I would rather they reduce the size because it is just too wide and goes past the edges of my screen. It gets annoying having to move it everytime.

How…. how? Is your screen like 200px wide?

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Posted by: Ray Koopa.2354

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Nitpickers corner: It would be nice if they could at least crop the layered window to the space it actually requires. the taskbar thumbnail shows there’s a lot of unused space at the bottom. I guess it’s still the original game’s launcher size which actually used that bottom part, but it empty since HoT.

Maybe they still use it to make some lazy window centering calculation possible, but that’s kinda hacky.

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Posted by: Hannelore.8153

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I am not crazy about the colors either, but I would rather they reduce the size because it is just too wide and goes past the edges of my screen. It gets annoying having to move it everytime.

Unfortunately in this era of 4K the minimum screen resolution is 1366×768 and in only a few short years that minimum resolution will become 1080p.

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Posted by: circuitnerd.5863

circuitnerd.5863

I actually like it. But I’m a weird one.

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Posted by: Midnight.7526

Midnight.7526

I like it too and I’m most assuredly not weird.

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Posted by: Zoltreez.6435

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I am not crazy about the colors either, but I would rather they reduce the size because it is just too wide and goes past the edges of my screen. It gets annoying having to move it everytime.

Unfortunately in this era of 4K the minimum screen resolution is 1366×768 and in only a few short years that minimum resolution will become 1080p.

in my opinion 1080p is the average nowdays…..

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Posted by: Hannelore.8153

Hannelore.8153

I am not crazy about the colors either, but I would rather they reduce the size because it is just too wide and goes past the edges of my screen. It gets annoying having to move it everytime.

Unfortunately in this era of 4K the minimum screen resolution is 1366×768 and in only a few short years that minimum resolution will become 1080p.

in my opinion 1080p is the average nowdays…..

Surely for TVs and desktops, but 720p and x768 are still very common in cheaper HDTVs and portables such as laptops (mostly ultrabooks, now).

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Posted by: Tiscan.8345

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I am not crazy about the colors either, but I would rather they reduce the size because it is just too wide and goes past the edges of my screen. It gets annoying having to move it everytime.

Unfortunately in this era of 4K the minimum screen resolution is 1366×768 and in only a few short years that minimum resolution will become 1080p.

Fun-Fact: the Launcher has a window-size of 1120*976 pixels and the image that is shown in it (the raptor, etc.) is roughly 1120*780 pixels big. So even on a screen with 1366×768 pixels it wouldn’t fit (especially if you take into account that the task-bar takes up the lower 40 pixels (on win 10)).

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Posted by: Zedek.8932

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Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

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You are so right. When I played DOS games on Win95 (“Dosbox”) and hit the windows key, the palette would screw up and it was all either bright lime-green or purple/pink and yellow/orange (and the game got stuck and the last note played from the soundcard sustained forever). I knew that particular colour composition from somewhere, and it really looks like some EGA game!

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Posted by: AncientYs.8613

AncientYs.8613

Come on, let us choose our own launcher images.

By doing this it would completely defeat the purpose of Anet presenting to us the next expac PoF through a thematic visual presentation.

Anet did the launcher the way it is in order to give its players a taste of what is to come in PoF.

Sorry to hear that you think it’s ugly but it’s highly unlikely that it will be changed as per your suggestion.

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Posted by: Djinn.9245

Djinn.9245

I don’t really understand the OP’s complaint. The original launcher was only black with a bit of red, the HoT launcher was only a few shades of green. This is the style of GW2 launchers. Looks perfectly fine to me.

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Posted by: mazut.4296

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Its not ugly, but the color is kind of to strong. The previous dark green was calming.

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Posted by: Ardid.7203

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It’s not perfect, but isn’t bad either, IMO. I think it isn’t relevant enough to waste time on it, really.

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Posted by: TheGrimm.5624

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Have seen games in the past, example the Civilization series, that would let you select which opening page you would see when you started the game. Not sure how much priority I would put on this over other changes though. You really only do see it for the time it takes to enter you password after all, but I do appreciate where you are coming from since your brain will associate that as the branding aspect.

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Posted by: PyrateSilly.4710

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I also like it and don’t call me normal, I find that insulting

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Posted by: Mea.5491

Mea.5491

I don’t care what it looks like, I only see it for a few seconds while logging in.

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Posted by: jheryn.8390

jheryn.8390

I don’t care what it looks like, I only see it for a few seconds while logging in.

^This.

Why is this even a concern? I don’t understand anyone wanting Anet to waste resources to change a launch screen you see for all of 5 or 6 seconds.

SMH

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Posted by: AncientYs.8613

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SMH

what does this mean?

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Posted by: CETheLucid.3964

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https://youtu.be/ai2n4uKA9V8


I like it. I don’t get the complaint, the launcher looks a lot better than it used to. Feels like a straight upgrade in form and function.

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Posted by: Amaimon.7823

Amaimon.7823

Another non-issue, just press the play button and screen is gone

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Posted by: ElectricGoat.8253

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The launcher is the best by far.

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Posted by: notebene.3190

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I don’t really understand the OP’s complaint. The original launcher was only black with a bit of red, the HoT launcher was only a few shades of green. This is the style of GW2 launchers. Looks perfectly fine to me.

Same feeling here, I’m not opposed to the color palette theme for the new expansion. My only complaint is on the new character select (which we saw in both demo weekends), where I wish the background was a bit lighter to give a better contrast with the characters. I don’t know anything about colors or anything like that, so for me to suggest some arbitrary “20% lighter” would be meaningless.

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Posted by: timkunedo.4392

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I love this new launcher way better than the old one.

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Posted by: jheryn.8390

jheryn.8390

SMH

what does this mean?

Shake my head.

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Posted by: AncientYs.8613

AncientYs.8613

SMH

what does this mean?

Shake my head.

cool :> thanks ^^

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Posted by: Jaxom.7310

Jaxom.7310

Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

think wut u wanted was something lik this?

https://i.redd.it/9c9a6vryffez.png

note, i just seen it, i’m not the maker

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Posted by: Legendary Grenth.3561

Legendary Grenth.3561

You’re opinion is invalid, I like it. It’s only a launcher get off your high horse.

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Posted by: killermanjaro.5670

killermanjaro.5670

Are there really that many people sitting around just looking at the launcher all day? Don’t people just open it then hit play straight away?

Even if there’s an update it’s still only on screen for max a couple of mins, and you don’t have to sit there looking at it, do other stuff on the PC while you wait.

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Posted by: lmaogg.7325

lmaogg.7325

you gonna play the game or stare at the launcher? Move on and stop crying over nothing important.

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Posted by: Kythan Myr.4719

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Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

I guess they should have ran it by you first to get your approval, eh? Then when someone disagreed with your choice, what would you tell them?

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Posted by: Djinn.9245

Djinn.9245

Its not ugly, but the color is kind of to strong. The previous dark green was calming.

Not like you have to look at it for a long time…

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Posted by: Djinn.9245

Djinn.9245

Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

I guess they should have ran it by you first to get your approval, eh? Then when someone disagreed with your choice, what would you tell them?

Yep, purple is one of my favorite colors

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Posted by: Amaimon.7823

Amaimon.7823

All you people want the devs to spend effort on the launcher, a screen you see 0.82274 seconds on average before you hit the play button?

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Posted by: sorudo.9054

sorudo.9054

Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

think wut u wanted was something lik this?

https://i.redd.it/9c9a6vryffez.png

note, i just seen it, i’m not the maker

honestly, that fits the PoF theme allot better and is calm to the eyes.

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Posted by: ElectricGoat.8253

ElectricGoat.8253

We should have a premium login client for those that pre-purchased. It should have moving graphics like in a gif or whatever, and shimmer like gold foil or whatever.

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Posted by: Vegeta.2563

Vegeta.2563

I like my launcher <3

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Posted by: dchsknight.3042

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Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

You know that is the art style of the game right? low, vibrant colors in a water color style.

You know the style they have used for like since beta….

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Posted by: GreyWolf.8670

GreyWolf.8670

I don’t mind the appearance at all but it would be nice if it opened in the center of the screen. :P

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Posted by: Wondrouswall.7169

Wondrouswall.7169

think wut u wanted was something lik this?

https://i.redd.it/9c9a6vryffez.png

note, i just seen it, i’m not the maker

Holy kittens! That looks far more fitting a better.

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Posted by: Revan.2015

Revan.2015

The launcher image is much more fleshed out compared to the previous ones. It sounds like you are just not a fan of the color palette.

Personally I always liked GW2 art and the PoF launcher looks better then the previous ones.

My only gripe with it is its position when its launched. It sits vertically lower on the screen instead of center screen like the previous ones. Visually that part doesn’t feel right.

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Posted by: Esquilax.3491

Esquilax.3491

Fully agree, it’s very ugly.

I don’t like the female norn (?) on a raptor for launcher, I don’t see what that has to do with the expansion theme. I don’t understand why it’s purple, too.

It should be a stylised version of Balthazar, and probably red. Just my 2c anyway….

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Posted by: Jaxom.7310

Jaxom.7310

Fully agree, it’s very ugly.

I don’t like the female norn (?) on a raptor for launcher, I don’t see what that has to do with the expansion theme. I don’t understand why it’s purple, too.

It should be a stylised version of Balthazar, and probably red. Just my 2c anyway….

it’ll prob come out that lyssa is the real baddie not balth, thats why its all purp, but still don’t lik the looks of it either

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Posted by: AncientYs.8613

AncientYs.8613

Fully agree, it’s very ugly.

I don’t like the female norn (?) on a raptor for launcher, I don’t see what that has to do with the expansion theme. I don’t understand why it’s purple, too.

It should be a stylised version of Balthazar, and probably red. Just my 2c anyway….

it’ll prob come out that lyssa is the real baddie not balth, thats why its all purp, but still don’t lik the looks of it either

yeah it could porbably be that Lyssa is working behind the scenes pulling on balthazars strings to make him do her dirty work :>

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Posted by: Ardid.7203

Ardid.7203

Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

think wut u wanted was something lik this?

https://i.redd.it/9c9a6vryffez.png

note, i just seen it, i’m not the maker

I don’t like that much the current launcher, but Balthazar in brownish…. ugh, that is UGLY for me.

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Posted by: Paralux.6714

Paralux.6714

It’s just a launcher. You look at it for maximum 20 secs before pressing “ready”. It can’t be that much of a bother.

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Posted by: jheryn.8390

jheryn.8390

I am sure the purple/pink color is due to the Brand from Kralk. We are going to be dealing with the dragon as well as Palawa Joko and Balthazar.

It makes complete sense. HoT – Green for mordy. Original black for Zhaitan.

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Posted by: Drecien.4508

Drecien.4508

How is it hitting the edges of your screen!? Do you have the zoom turned up on yours?

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