You have to sign into the launcher, it sends a request to the Jagex website to authenticate. When that is done, it gets your account information back.
The program then saves that information for you to access when you need it. Every time you load the launcher, it calls the Jagex website again to make sure everything is updated - so if you import/create a new character, it'll load that character into the launcher....or if any characters had their name changed, update it....or in the future, if you change the order of your character to display, it'll get the updated information from the website to reorder the list. Or...if you end sessions/change login info...it'll block you from logging in and make you sign in again.
Then when you play the game, it has to send a secret token back to the website to validate it's legit and safe, gets the "ok" signal from the website, and launches the game client with your approved login, and plops you in the game.
Sign into the launcher on another computer, it'll do the same thing, call the website and request your account information and then put it in. Sign out and sign into another account, it'll do the same for that new account that just signed in.
It might be showing you as signed in, but it's having to communicate with the website, where your account is located at, to be sure it can access it...and get all the updated information about it so you can play the game.
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Basically, it's no different than your browser and signing into the website. You do it once, it remembers you for a bit....you can access the site and all that. But change browsers or computers, you gotta sign in again, but everything is there because your account is not tied to the browser. Same principle with the launcher.
Can I turn in a paper without citing all sources?
"No."[1]
1. William Shakespeare,
Hamlet
, Act III, Scene 1, line 96.
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