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Aloha,
1: WGC and the legacy launcher are different software pieces. Supporting them both takes resources, even on maintenance. What's worse, it takes pretty precious and critical resources of Release and Release QA teams to deploy every update to the Legacy Launcher and WGC. Less update instances to deploy = less chance of issues slipping through.
2: When we first introduced WGC as an option, it was pretty buggy, it lacked some good functions etc - it was in Alpha/Beta actually. And a lot of people used the legacy because it WAS better. But that was YEARS ago. Before we announced forced migration (a few months ago) there was only a few percentage of users on legacy launcher - the overwhelming majority of players migrated already.
3: If you don't want to play other WG titles, that's fine, sure, you play only WoWs. But even then in WGC you have things like multi-account support and automatic WGCheck gathering (very good for reporting tech issues to CS). Doing those things manually and having to put that in a legacy Launcher for only 3-4% of players? Sorry, it's super inefficient and would not be the right thing to do. Moreover, as WGC is the WG platform at the moment it's the uniform way to deliver our games company wide, there are much higher chances for new features to appear there. And until the migration WoWs, to my knowledge is the ONLY WG title that is on the legacy launcher.
As for some, that have more interesting thoughts on the WGC about big brother spying on you or WG mining bit coins. Seriously?
WG is a big international company. We are fully compliant with ALL local and international laws and regulations where we operate, including EU and NA. Even if you for some reason (which I find personally offensive) think that we, WoWs team or WG as a whole want to spy on you or hack your PC, don't you think the risks of facing international courts and ban of our products in all big game markets and the huge scandal in the industry would stop it before anything like this was remotely thought of? With all the GDPR and other privacy laws being enforced even on giants like Google? We share all our compliant and legal information on the WGC publicly - it says what it does and does not. And let me assure you, the company makes revenue by making games, NOT by spying on you or placing malicious code on your computer. We do not care about your browser history.
Bypassing and "working around" using the launcher may work for now, but when your client has issues, you crash or have other problems, this will only be your fault.
-Hapa