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Maybe it’s because this is so new that they’re still going through the verification process?
I’ll be sticking with Heroic either way. It’s annoying to have to install a launcher for every service. Between Steam and Heroic, I’ve got almost everything covered.
I don’t think the domain verification process involves any human reviewers, so unlikely.
Maybe it’s because this is so new that they’re still going through the verification process?
The metainfo.xml uses images uploaded to Imgur. I don’t think this is official in any capacity or form. Especially so with the “community-provided” note and the fact, that Epic would probably have verified the account before uploading to not confuse anyone (although we speak about Epic, who knows if they would do that at all).
I wish we could have a launcher integrating every store.
Fighter now I’m launching Heroic through Steam on my Steam Deck, but if I get a Linux gaming PC, I’d love to be more independant from Steam.
So launching every store through Heroic would be my solution if it integrated Steam in it.
Playnite was my all-in-one launcher on Windows, and last time I checked, Linux support was on their roadmap. Great piece of software, if only it was available for other systems.
(Don’t bother trying to install the Windows version on Linux, btw. The installer doesn’t work.)
That was the goal of GOG Galaxy. It was just slow as molasses and had no Linux version.
Lutris can also do that but it hasn’t been very reliable over the years and for some reason can’t offer a combined library view.
Was GOG supposed to have Steam games in it? Because that’s what I’m asking for.
Do you know if you can get GOG achievements and Steam achievements with Lutris?
I think GOG could show Steam games. Probably used the same voodoo Lutris uses to display them.
Last time I used Lutris it would just download the installer from GOG’s website which don’t have any achievements unless they are accessible in the game. Heroic does have them but no notification while playing that you got one.
Steam in Lutris would just launch Steam so achievements worked there. But last I looked Lutris didn’t display the Steam games you own through your family. And you had to actively refresh the list of games.
https://lutris.net/ integrates Epic Games, Steam and GOG. And for those fine folks who have a Humble Bundle list of games, it also supports that and I think lists all Flatpak games as well. Butt however, … its vibe coded nowadays. When I install it, then my PC has a problem with logging out. I have no idea why that is, but I tried this twice now (with weeks apart) and every time Lutris is installed, I can’t logout correctly without using some terminal commandlines.
I’d love to be more independant from Steam. … would be my solution if it integrated Steam in it.
I don’t understand this. No shade towards you, I just don’t get it. If you want be more independent from Steam, why are you requiring Steam to be integrated? What’s the point? I really mean this question, so nothing toxic here in case it comes over like that. If you ever stop using Steam, then you can still install Heroic without using Steam.
If you want be more independent from Steam, why are you requiring Steam to be integrated? What’s the point?
I’m not the original commentor, but it would be nice to have an independent interface that could just show you all the games you own in one coherent searchable interface that also lets you install and play them.
Steam only shows Steam games and the non-Steam games you have added. Heroic only supports Epic and GOG and some smaller stores. Lutris more or less does support most vendors but is clunky and doesn’t offer a combined view. I think Playnite does this but is Windows only at the moment. Same with GOG Galaxy.
And if you had to ditch Steam at some point for whatever reason it would be nice to be able to continue using the same app as before.
I think that text is part of the description and had to be written manually. An automated note wouldn’t know the name “Epic Games, Inc.”
But is it any less awful?
Nope
I was curious and installed it and a small game. It uses Proton GE. But for the life of me I cannot find where it stores the actual game. Supposedly it should write to ~/Games but it’s not in there. Searching for the executable doesn’t yield anything either. But it still works.
Edit: No idea what witchcraft this is. When the game is running
psshows that Proton is running an executable located in~/Gamesbut nothing is there.Edit 2: The sloppers didn’t give the flatpak permission to write to the Games folder. Interesting that the game still didn’t show up anywhere. Guess flatpak stored the files in memory.
Does the game exist anywhere in the flatpak folder of the app?
Wait what? So it ran the game from RAM?
I think. I don’t have any other explanation. It couldn’t launch the game after restarting the app. Must be a Flatpak thing. After I gave it permission to write to the correct folder it stored the game files there.
The game was only 300 MB so it is plausible to store it in RAM. I could test it out with a larger game but I can’t be bothered atm.
See I always liked to play the where did I put that game in lutris. Where I would install the game, use the launch button during install and then 6 weeks later go to play again and it won’t launch because I never mapped the gamestart.exe file, and for some odd reason many of them aren’t in the install location.
I still don’t know why it makes 2 folders, I looked it up awhile back and it said something like “because that’s how it do” and I was like, k.
What would this offer over Heroic?
Storefront. I don’t believe heroic let’s you buy games (read: get the week’s free game)
It actually does. And they get a commission for GOG games you buy through Heroic.
I stand corrected. Was that a recent addition? It’s been a year since I used heroic and don’t remember it being a thing
I think it’s been there for a while. But it just drowns in all the other icons on the sidebar. And every time I buy a game on GOG I remember a few days later that I should have bought it through Heroic. I don’t think I have ever actually used it to buy anything.
Coincidentally I can’t install Epic games through Heroic at the moment. Total coincidence, I am sure.
