[Companion App] Add confirmation dialogue before closing game upon app update

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[Companion App] Add confirmation dialogue before closing game upon app update

ren8853|7/23/2025

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Currently, if you start the THGL Companion App with a game running and the app has an update (I think?), it will force-close the game without warning or any option to avoid doing so. I understand why the updater needs to close the game in order to proceed, but it tends to take me by surprise. As you might expect, there are some circumstances where the game closing unexpectedly is a HIGHLY undesirable outcome. (Just for one example, in Palia, players hosting or attending events often need to avoid logging out in order to ensure they stay on the same server/shard, sometimes with severe consequences for the group - involving hours of lost progress - if the host crashes/is logged out unexpectedly.) A "THGL Updater needs to close the game in order to update. Proceed?" dialogue box would, I think, solve the "unexpected" part, at least. :)

Replies (2)

devleondevleon7/24/2025

I am wondering how this could happen. Did you start the app while the game is running? The app is only updating on app start.

ren8853ren88537/24/2025

Yes, because the app stopped reading the game data again and I was trying to fix it. But, uh, duly noted that I'm not supposed to do that, apparently 😅