Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more

psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• seathru@quokk.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If anything this will likely break support with Lutris, Heroic, and others so they can force you to run their client.

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  • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t legendary using the APIs directly? It could affected by minor changes I suppose but hopefully that can be updated. Not sure if Lutris uses legendary but heroic does.

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    • doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The APIs are all undocumented and reverse engineered for Legendary. Chances are a major re-write like this could change the APIs.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe support for Linux is part of the new redesign. I mean they want to or already have hired someone to champion Linux Anti-cheat support, directly by Epic. Maybe there is hope.

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  • doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Easy anyi-cheat is a different team to the Epic Store, so the effect of that hiring is indeterminate.

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