# Please provide a reliable way of launching the game

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/please-provide-a-reliable-way-of-launching-the-game/87464>\
**Category:** EVE Launcher\
**Created:** [July 6, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/please-provide-a-reliable-way-of-launching-the-game/87464 "2018-07-06T19:26:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trenton\_Dale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/trenton_dale/32/83304_2.png) [@Trenton\_Dale](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Trenton_Dale)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/please-provide-a-reliable-way-of-launching-the-game/87464/1 "2018-07-06T19:26:16Z")

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Almost every time I want to play I need to fight with the launcher for a while. It seems like the “play” button only works at certain times, and if you click it at the wrong time it will put the launcher into a bad state where you need to quit and reopen it to try again. At this point it’s more common for me to get a bunch meaningless red error messages I can’t act on than for the game to start.

From a user perspective I just want a reliable way to launch the game. I don’t mind having to wait a bit if the launcher needs to do things first but having to manually coax it into starting the game every time I want to play is annoying and makes the software feel buggy.

Again, I don’t mind having to wait on startup. What I want is to double click an icon on the desktop and be taken to the game, when it is ready.

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**Author:** ![Dark\_Engraver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dark_engraver/32/45178_2.png) [@Dark\_Engraver](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dark_Engraver)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/please-provide-a-reliable-way-of-launching-the-game/87464/2 "2018-07-07T09:46:20Z")

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The launcher has had a bad rep for being poorly optimized since it came out unfortunately no one at CCP seems to give a damn.I always close it after starting my clients

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/please-provide-a-reliable-way-of-launching-the-game/87464/3 "2018-10-05T09:46:23Z")

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