I’m trying to add Game Center leaderboards to my iOS game, but I find the Game Center authentication window to be annoyingly obtrusive, especially for players who don’t want to use it. My hope was to make it so that if you have already authenticated (via the Settings page) then the game connects to the Game Center, otherwise it does not.
However it seems that Social.localUser.Authenticate() will always prompt you to authenticate if you have not done so already. And if I don’t call Authenticate() I cannot use Game Center at all. Is there no way to check authentication silently?
Are things any different in the Prime 31 plugin? The API docs seem to suggest not and I’m about to spend $75 to find out. Is there any way around this, or is it a fundamental feature of the Game Center API?