Spottyfriend Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 I love that Launchbox now has a playtime function, but it would be even better if it showed (as much as possible) the true playtime of a game rather than the time played since they added the feature. One small way to do this would be to have the Epic Games import function also bring in playtime, just as it does with Steam. Alternatively, Launchbox could just allow me to manually edit my playtime so I can just line up the real playtime to Launchbox's, and not have to think about it again after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 I've never seen anywhere that Epic Games tracks your time played. Is there some place in their UI to see that stat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottyfriend Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 (edited) If you click the three dots next to a game in your library, it will come up. For example, here's Fortnite in my library. Edited March 30, 2022 by Spottyfriend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Ah nice, didn't realize they had that. Do you know if that a global stat or just time played since the last install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottyfriend Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 Almost certain it's global since I've uninstalled and reinstalled Fortnite recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 I didn't have any EGS games installed so couldn't even get to that menu (kinda sucks they don't make that information available for uninstalled games). I added this to the list, though at this point I'm not real sure if their API will even let me GET that information so I can't make any promises of when or IF it gets added, but definately be curious to see what we can find out about it. In the meantime if you wanted you can close LaunchBox and manually edit the XML data file to alter the playtime, but you'd have to do that per game. The playtime in that file is in total seconds played as well so may need to do some math to make sure you input the right number. I'd most certainly make sure to take a backup before you do that though so you can restore if anything gets messed up when manually editing files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottyfriend Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 Okay thanks for responding; I'll look into editing the XML. Is there a possibility of manual playtime editing getting added to the UI rather than being reserved to a file editing method (plus the math necessary as you mention)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Right now I don't know of any plans to since you can't do that for ANY play stat as I remember (except for resetting it). Be interesting to see how many people would use something like that though. When ya get the time could you go to the top of this page and click the "Help & Support" link and then "Request a Feature" and fill that out with that request? Will open up a BitBucket ticket people can vote on that we use to gauge interest on various requested changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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