Windows Download function linked to launcher? What the hell?

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I just discovered an interesting fact while downloading 1.05c.

The absolutely standard looking Windows download progress indicator, the same one that comes up when downloading from a link in Internet Explorer...

...is, with no indication, linked to the CK2 Launcher when "manually" downloading updates.

Got to 98% on the download, figured I was about to install the patch, so I should close the Launcher... which caused the download to stop and the progree indicator to close, without any confirmation or warning.

With the 25 to 35 Kbps download rate I'm getting from Paradox, this pretty much means that about 25 minutes were wasted due to an easily avoidable design flaw. On a normal download, closing the browser window that had the link does not cancel and close the download itself -- why / how would anyone expect closing the Launcher to cancel and close the download?

 

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Tried it again, and it just died on it's own for no reason at 98%.

What happened to just going to a webpage and downloading a patch? Or FTP servers?

 

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what are you expecting? the launcher is a application that basically shows nothing else then a web page. it doesn't really matter if you would use this page or a ftp or whatever... everything would come from the paradox servers anyway and those are a little bit busy at the moment.
where is the actual problem though?

 

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what are you expecting? the launcher is a application that basically shows nothing else then a web page. it doesn't really matter if you would use this page or a ftp or whatever... everything would come from the paradox servers anyway and those are a little bit busy at the moment.
where is the actual problem though?

The original post has it -- despite no indication that it's doing anything other than a standard windows download, it cancels the download if you close the launcher.

 

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The original post has it -- despite no indication that it's doing anything other than a standard windows download, it cancels the download if you close the launcher.

downloads get cancelled when you shut down your browser too, don't they? what is the problem with that?