Some questions about Battle.net Launcher (commandline params, newspage on web)

[Bl4ckSh33p]

Hi! I have a few questions about the battle.net Launcher and hope someone might know more about it.

I wondered if the "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" is only available in old installations before the Battle.net Launcher was introduced or does every copy of WoW have this file in the game directory?
It would be great if some people could check and tell me so I know if it is reliable to use this file to launch the bnet launcher (used for my new WoW Launcher 2).

Does anyone know if the Battle.net launcher supports command line parameters to launch with a specific game or page (shop/news) open? Or can you start a scan&repair action for a game with them?

And finally, does anyone know if/how you can access the builtin newspage? The old launchers had a normal website which could be opened in any browser. But does anyone know the location/URL of the new newspage from b.net launcher?

regards,
Bl4ckSh33p

[myrroddin]

If memory serves, it was just "Launcher.exe" before bnet. But it doesn't matter, since every installation of the game (legal ones, anyway) call it "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" now. Don't make your program backwards compatible, as that creates headaches for you, users, and possibly would support private servers. You don't want any of those.

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by myrroddin If memory serves, it was just "Launcher.exe" before bnet.

It may have been just "Launcher.exe" at one point in the distant past, but it's been "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" since at least Cataclysm.

[Bl4ckSh33p]

Ok, thanks. Then I will execute the "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe" to launch the Battle.net Launcher with WoW open (since there seems to be no commandline params available or known, yet).

I just tried to launch WoW via WoW.exe and WoW-64.exe but it seems the Launcher is always run first. Does anyone know how to skip it to get into the game immediately?

[Lombra]

You can in the Battle.net launcher specify application parameters for each game yes, if that's what you meant.

[Bl4ckSh33p]

Yes, I know about this. But I wanted to know if someone knows a param to start the game without launching the battle.net launcher first. Clicking on WoW.exe opens the Launcher for me (after a while).

[judge2020]

To add onto this thread, it is possible to launch through Bnet without having it open the battle.net gui.

You can create a shortcut and have the URL point to

battlenet://WoW

This works for all of the other bnet games as well:

battlenet://Hero
battlenet://WTCG
battlenet://S2
battlenet://D3
battlenet://WoW
battlenet://Pro

Pro - Overwatch
WTCG - hearthstone

So for example,

[TomberWolf]

Does somebody know the battlenet:// link for Destiny 2?

[p3lim]

Originally Posted by TomberWolf Does somebody know the battlenet:// link for Destiny 2?

DST2 (source)

[TomberWolf]

Originally Posted by p3lim DST2 (source)

Thanks :-)