msimmons Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Hi, Before I download and install, I am curious what services LaunchBox supports. I see it supports steam, but how about Desura, or Ubisoft? My personal issue is that I have games spread across services and I lose track of what I own (a good problem to have for sure). Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 msimmons said Hi, Before I download and install, I am curious what services LaunchBox supports. I see it supports steam, but how about Desura, or Ubisoft? My personal issue is that I have games spread across services and I lose track of what I own (a good problem to have for sure). Thanks! You can really add what ever you want. Some things may be easier than others to add, but you can add anything you want. LaunchBox can't circumvent the need for those programs however, even if there was a button that said 'Add Desura Games' or 'Add Origin Games'. Those programs will still need to launch regardless because that is how they are built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msimmons Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Do I have to manually add the games to LaunchBox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 msimmons said Do I have to manually add the games to LaunchBox? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msimmons Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Ah, that is where I completely misunderstood. I was thinking that process was somewhat automated. Thanks for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 msimmons said Ah, that is where I completely misunderstood. I was thinking that process was somewhat automated. Thanks for the info! It's automated for Steam, but not other programs. We've talked about being able to automate it, which .... with some workarounds we could, but it wouldn't be that easy. Even steam scanning isn't perfect, but because of how they setup their file systems its achievable. The only other one we've expressly talked about and I think Jason would like to do, is GOG games. We would most likely need to have the user point us in the right direction... but it could be possible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msimmons Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 SentaiBrad said It's automated for Steam, but not other programs. Ah OK, that's where my original question came from as I understood it as being automated for Steam so wasn't sure if y'all had access to and API (or just doing some "screen scraping") on the other vendors. Thanks again for clearing that up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Just to clarify, I do intend to support imports for as many things as possible (Origin, GOG, Desura, etc.). It's just all about priorities and efforts. Hopefully I can add them soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msimmons Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 That sounds great! Thanks for the update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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