Folks,
Contrary to what some people state we have been VERY transparent of our change to using the WGC, it is a launcher that checks your game client to ensure there are no files that are broken or unstable, it updates for you, it allows you to throttle downloads or stop them, it allows you to launch multiple WG titles if you have them. The old legacy launcher was NOT stable and that is why we no longer support it.
There is NOTHING malicious going on. I have been using the WGC since WELL before my employment with WG on multiple computers and have not had a single issue with something "malicious" occurring on my PCs.
We gather system information to see across the board what the average system is that people play our game on is so we can better support and optimize the game. This is an industry standard now, and TBH I don't know of too many MODERN games that even allow you to download and install them without a launcher. If we just decid...
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