Speaking personally...having used the NC launcher a fair bit in the past, my issue was never with it failing to work, but rather the thing in and of itself even when it works. It's a larger and clunkier programme than the relatively minimalist and efficient CoH launcher. I don't need or use all the bells and whistles the blanket launcher provides. So all the additional resources it uses and the longer loading time...it ain't hugely worse, but it is irksome. Now that said...I can understand why NCsoft would want players of all its games to use one master launcher. They want people to be playing NCsoft games - in general. Not just the one. I get that. I just don't like it.
-- Acyl
-- Acyl