New login interface on Test

[RangerDown]

Yesterday evening I patched to Test to see whether the upcoming patch might break the current Emu servers... and... yipes!

All I can say is FOR THE LOVE OF TUNARE DON'T PATCH!!!

I got as far as the login screen. The totally revamped login screen. If the eqhost.txt file is changed to point to the Emu servers, the login client simply crashes to desktop when submitting a logon. Interestingly enough, after finding yourself at the desktop, you see the contents of the eqhost.txt file were modified to this:

[LoginServer]
Host=xp-smitchell:7308

I can only assume they're making a substantial change to the login part of the game... to the point where a dev named S. Mitchell is spending his 8 hours a day hosting an internal login service on his XP machine and playing around with the login.

I should also bring to your attention that the [Account] button has changed to. Evidently they're doing away with in-the-client support for account management options (registration, billing, cancels, etc.), and instead when you press [Account] it simply launches the station.sony.com website. If this goes live, the mechanism you put in place for registering new accounts via a "CD key" won't work anymore.

(PS: Packet collector didn't pick up anything while I was submitting my logon. Wasn't sure if packet collector just doesn't work when you're using testeqgame, or if that means something serious)