Old launcher no longer working

[HereInPlainSight]

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Hey, you've got a better source. Great. In the end, as you said, the numbers themselves aren't entirely significant -- because it's always going to be fuzzy math. In the end, the primary thing to take away was that it won't be an insignificant amount of money, if you're going to cry about 'proving we're worth it.'

And again, to highlight, we're not demanding anything. We're just asking to not make things harder. Fixes, in fact, are all already available, for all instances. However, as users, we'd prefer to have cleaner solutions to offer other new players. To make the experience smoother. Not necessarily for ourselves -- but we do like to have a nice, working, easy solution for newcomers. We like a cleaner experience for users just like, I'd assume, anyone would like to. Can we work around these problems? Yes. We already have. Even better ones are still being worked on. But again, cleaner solutions make for better experiences, not Frankensteining old tech that's not even used by the people who made it any more. Frankly, the solution for playing on Linux hasn't been 'duct taped.' It is, in fact, smooth as hell for years now -- so long as you're not running a steam license, specifically, since Tuesday's maintenance.

Appearently the launcher is ignoring the Browser option in the config file after a recent update. This means the game just turned unplayable on Proton which makes me wonder if SquareEnix has any plans to support Proton or the Steam Deck.

Another thing that is quite concerning is that the browser seems to rely on Internet Explorer, which ends extended support in 3 months.

Are there any plans to fix the launcher in the future?

Not a demand.

This of course has made the game completely unplayable on Proton and I've had no choice but to unsub for the first time in years.

Not a demand either, though certainly a note that there are paying Linux customers who will not pay for a game they're unable to play, or that makes it needlessly more difficult to do so.

I'm not gonna go back through every post -- but no one is demanding fixes. We have an issue, we're trying to make it more heard, and see if there's any developer interest in reasoned arguments. Be they fiscal or technological. Maybe they'll fall on deaf ears, maybe there'll miraculously be changes.

Oh, and by the way -- if Square had programmed the launcher better, to not assume all Wine users were Mac users, they actually could have measured Linux population and growth easily and had solid numbers to know exactly how much revenue we generate. Linked it into how much we spend on the mog station and whatever else. You're right, we don't have the exact numbers. But even with reasoned guesswork -- and again, thank you for having better numbers to work with -- we can at least make the argument Linux users are not insignificantly contributing to the profit margin. Again, you're asking us to prove something that we can't because that information is not available to us -- so yes, we have to work within the numbers we do have.