xwing

I have enjoyed Launchbox for a long time but this really annoys me. The old steam importer that simply imported games from install folders just worked. However the new process is a step back in my opinion. Firstly I didn't like importing everything on my account installed or not but I tolerated it because it's simple enough to deselect what I didn't want. However I recently did a fresh install of Launchbox to deal with an invalid character error that I couldn't fix by editing the launchbox xml or by reimporting my games with a launchbox backup package. I thought this would be fine and it would just take me a little time to set up again. The problem arose when I tried to reimport my steam games. After I enter in my steam community url the program just waits for a long time on the screen that says "Please wait while parsing your Steam account..." "This should only take a moment". I timed it, I let it go for 35 minutes and still nothing. No error notification, no "window not responding", nothing to indicate what is wrong. I had successfully imported steam games using the same process before I did a fresh install of Launchbox and it worked fine. I also quadruple checked that I entered in the right steam community profile url precisely and that my profile is public. Steam says I have 333 titles in my library (including those that aren't installed), I don't think that is such a huge amount that the program simply can't import. Can the old import feature be reintroduced so there is that option or some explanation be provided as to why a fresh installation would be incapable of importing a steam library? I'm using version 5.5 of Launchbox premium.

Oh no, I certainly wouldn't ask for a refund over something like that. Even the free version of the frontend is great so I don't feel like I've lost out or anything. Being that the licence xml still contains my full name and personal email I thought that would be enough to deter me and others from sharing the software, but I can understand that you're pretty adamant about this point and I can respect that. I did manage to find a workaround to get it how I wanted using the custom filters however. I used the "status" in place of how complete the game currently is. This lets me create custom filters for "100%, backlog, complete, currently completing, want to 100%" and I can batch edit games to adhere to this which is great. Of course I have to erase "imported from steam, imported rom" to do this, so the proposed playlist feature should be even better for this purpose, especially if you can put a "add to playlist [X]" in the right-click context menu (much like in a music player). Thanks for the reply

Hi I've been using Launchbox for awhile now and decided to get the premium version. I really like the frontend but some of the things about the premium version are kind of disappointing. Firstly I don't really appreciate my full name being visible from the titlebar (i.e "Licensed to [X]). I have streamed games in the past and don't really like giving out my full name. Also the custom filters aren't exactly what I expected (this is kind of my fault for not looking into it more). I expected to be able to construct my own lists of games however I realize now it's more of a smartlist where you enter in details you want the program to look for. This isn't really what I was looking for as I had it in mind to use the feature to create a "backlog list" and "100%" list as "completed: yes/no" isn't specific enough. I know it probably sounds like I'm nitpicking but these seem like really simple changes to make and implement and would vastly improve the software.