Hello,
It seems I was one of the users apparently selected at random today to "test" this launcher update. I certainly wish I had at least had some sort of option to opt out of this trial, because this update may have effectively cheated me out of the game and subscription time I've paid for until this new launcher's issues are fixed.
To delve into the exact details of the issue I encountered, the launcher itself seemed to update just fine before I logged in to it,, after opening it's application, even though it did take some time to update and restart itself. Once this was over with, I was able to log in like normal. However, to my immense surprise, I was then prompted by the launcher to accept a whopping download of 35 GB or more, even if SWTOR is obviously fully and properly installed on my computer (no issues whatsoever before today at that) . I cannot actually spare an additional 35 GB of space on my hard drive. Had I allowed this forced download to finish, my hard drive would very likely have crashed. As it stands, I had no way of even pausing this download normally, the launcher froze up my computer, and I feared the worst. I had to terminate power entirely in order to avoid having this update destroy my entire system.
I did notice the claims made by users in the relevant EA forums thread opened recently with regards to this update that the download was not truly 35 GB, but such claims were made only by a few users, and other posts in the same forums seemed to indicate that they did indeed need to download not only 35 GB, but 45 GB in total. I simply cannot risk the chance that the ones claiming the download is nothing to be concerned about are mistaken.
I sincerely hope that this issue is fixed in a prompt and timely manner by BioWare so that I can play the game and make use of the play time I renewed less than a week ago again, otherwise I will unfortunately have no choice but to cancel my subscription for good and pursue a refund, regardless of what is done to my account. I hope that this issue is fixed for the sake of my fellow players who were included in this "trial" as well.
On a related note, it is absolutely disgusting and unscrupulous, to say the very least, that the beta testing of a new launcher has been forced on unsuspecting players with virtually no true warning or ability to opt out. This would be a lot like forcing regular players who intend to log in to the Live servers to spend valuable time with friends into the PTS server. Leaving your players and subscribers with no options in this matter whatsoever is a horrible policy, especially if they are expected to allow a massive and potentially damaging download onto their system.