SOE is taking it one step further with their Station.com franchise. They'll be doing away with game-specific launchers, and introducing a brand new one-for-all launcher, called the Station Launcher. There's a bit of info on the SOE Press website about it.
One place for all your games... fast, simple and ready to go anytime!
Station Launcher™ is a simple, one-click application that delivers games, community and digital media content all in one complete package right to your desktop.
- Find your friends fast and stay connected with voice chat and universal IM support.
- Get bonus content like free trials, trailers, wallpapers and more.
- Stay current on the latest Station news, Dev chats and upcoming games.
- Take advantage of pre-ordering and pre-loading your favorite Station games.
- Browse and buy games, new content and, soon, movies, music and more!
The release date for the new launcher hasn't been announced yet, but it sounds as if SOE is ready to take on the world with this all new solution to their lineup of MMO's.
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Those were my exact thoughts as I read through the description. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
If you can't beat them, steal their idea... NCsoft, Turbine and a few other already run multi-game launcher...
Teh good thing for SOE... some of theyr player might see a game they would have never tryed if it wasen't in their launcher :-P.
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yea, this has been going for an year already, i remember browsing soe forum last year and reading about this
they even did showcase this on e3 2006.
Seems like Steam for Half Life mods