One Launcher to Rule them All

what the hell is this obsession with launchers from a customer point of view. is managing your own PC that daunting and arduous that you need to use launchers to deal with your games? let alone a launcher FOR launchers? modern gaming is a complete joke

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I go full piracy and it's pure gold. Good launcher, nice interface, highly customizable.
Probably the best way to manage 200 folders of cracked games, and it honestly looks better than Steam or GoG Galaxy

>needing launchers
what happened with desktop shortcut icons or just scanning folder names with your eyes?

>3D UI
Yikes.
Which is superior, this or the GOG thing?

>paying for a proprietary bloatware when a foss alternative that is lighter and getting better exist
wew lad

launchers are only good for one thing and its emulation stations

>more launchers
Fuck off fag

fuck, you're still shilling this shit software? I told you to fuck off like 6 months ago, surprised GOG Galaxy 2.0 hasn't made you just give up at this point.

The launcher isn't the problem. Nobody is kicking up a fuss over needing to move their mouse or click different spots.

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Playnite makes organizing things better. It also keeps track of your playtime. You can add custom art to the game covers.

For now, playnite is the superior option. Galaxy 2 is in beta, but shows promise.

Irrelevant and pointless. That's not good enough.

When I'm choosing what I'm going to play, I prefer to see the covers of the games in my library, rather than a generic ugly list of endless folders in alphabetical order.
Once you get the covers, the jump to "fullscreen pictures and a gameplay video next to the cover while a nice song plays in the background" is pretty quick.

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>3D
That's a theme retard, there are countless others

seethe

cope

dilate

Just tell your boss this shit isn't working, maybe Reddit will buy it

the trade off for letting launchers become as big as they are is absolutely not worth your ridiculous preference

>paying

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>letting launchers become as big as they are
What do you mean?

isn't GOG doing something similar, with the added benefit of cross-plattform friendslists and shit?

Shut the fuck up, faggot. Develop an actual argument instead of just regurgitating shitposts.

Yes. But this one is more mature project while being free and open-source.

they're necessary to run most games nowadays, and usually run some garbage telemetry in the background doing lord knows what and wasting resources. if there was a way to run/open/manage most games without having to deal with origin/steam/blizzard launcher etc than I wouldn't care, but the lack of choice is incredibly irritating and is poised to get worse, look no further than op

i dont really get the point of full screen UIs like that
i just made a menu in my start folder which is actually just a folder on my drive with a bunch of shortcuts which does literally the same thing. i just have to make the shortcut for each game which isn't a big deal if you're not installing shit all the time

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>bloated
There are also launchers for toasters, but sure, a great looking interface is a luxury
And poorfags are incompatible with that by default

launchers by design are bloat, you mongoloid

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The best launcher is yourself, you, clicking the .exe to open the game you've installed onto your PC

>windows key
>type the first letters of the game I want to launch
>enter

Why would I need a launcher?

...user this it's a completely different thing, these are optional.
Custom launchers are meant to give you a unified way to launch your "orphan" games, the ones without a dedicated software. For example, they're compatible with emulators; click on the icons, and it automatically loads the game with the correct software and the settings you choose.

Even a lightweight and minimalist program is considered bloat if you don't need it
In this case, a launcher launcher is entirely superfluous, and would only be marginally useful if you're playing several games from different launchers in a single gaming session. Otherwise, the time it takes to open and navigate through this launcher launcher could just as easily be spent opening and navigating through the standalone launcher.

That's nice, I'm still not going to install the Epic Launcher

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It works good until you have 300+ games in your library

I'll wait for GOG's global launcher thing

Because my Gog Galaxy 2.0 does the same thing already? You're fucking stupid to download ANOTHER launcher just for launching launchers.

>doesn't just have a folder on his desktop with a bunch of shortcuts to his games

you idiots who need software for everything are the reason launchers are a thing in the first place.

Maybe, you can only find out once you're poor

THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF THE PC BASE.
>Launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers launching launchers

Several anons are missing the point here. This launcher is just another way to organize your gaming library like making folders, shortcuts,e tc.. Sure you could argue that Steam already does that, but in the case you have other launchers or have many pirated games, playnite will make it easier for you to manage through that.

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>another fucking launcher
how about no

playnite also have covers and fullscreen mode. Give it a try. You will be surprised.

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>another way to organize your gaming library
why bother when the thing already exist and is called operative system
you know you can just make a folder with all shortcuts of the games you have

that's literally a desktop with extra steps

>.05 cents have been deposited into your account.
You're close to a dollar with how much you've shilled so far, marketer.

>shilling your own launcher launcher on Yea Forums
>playnite
jesus

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You're so obviously a shill.
Maybe even a dev that wants to get market parts before GOG 2.0 destroys you.

i dont bother with the game if its not on gog or steam anyway why would i need a launcher?

So you download a launcher, to launch your other launchers. Yeah, gee, just use more resources because it doesn't actually bypass the other launchers having to be open and running, doesn't stop you having to have accounts for each of them. Seems real smart lol

Imagine being paid peanuts to advertise on Yea Forums.

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>it's like a folder with your games in it
>except this folder spies on you
???

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>portable
What does this matter if it is written in non-portable net framework? Literally nobody apart from winnoodles can work with this. They could have just as well let it be closed source. Fucking waste of time.

>why bother when the thing already exist and is called operative system
Because it's ugly as sin and the only way you'd ever notice the resources needed by the software is using a 2005 computer

>i need a launcher to keep all my games in one place

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Here are the links for Playnite. How much do I get for this?

Website: playnite.link/
Source: github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite
Patreon: patreon.com/playnite

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wtf is this bloatware shit

>mistaking "bloatware" for "botnet"
cyberp/v/nk 2020

if you have 300 games installed you're doing it wrong

Fuck off Josef.

If you don't have 5tb + external disks you're doing it cheap

Launcherbox is so much better
>b-but playnite is f-free
Peasants shouldn't be allowed opinions

>121 patrons
patreon is a fucking cancer

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Alright, give me a torrent.
I pirated Lanchbox, I sure as hell won't pay for this.
You're not a shill anyways, are you?
Drop the link fucker

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Playnite is foss, user. The links are in the thread.

>has a system that can't handle a launcher
> i-i-its bloatware guys
Sour grapes mr.fox

Not him but only Bigbox is bloated.
Launchbox is light as fuck and it's also free.

"josef nemec" hello czech bro

Is there anything Metroidvania about Dead Cells? No, the handful of permanent skills doesn't count

>GOG Galaxy 2.0

You never own a game. If you have physical you just own the disc. No different from downloading a digital version and backing it up.

I own GoG games and cracked ones.

playnite 5 fucked up the aesthetics and it now looks worse.

im happy with gog 2

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You buy a personal license for the digital game. You don't legally own it.

I can just open steam from my pinned menu and start anything else from their respective folders from my games folder, it isn't that hard imagine being mentally handicapped to the point you have to use a launcher to play all the shit u installed

My excuse is that im waiting for GOG Galaxy 2.0

It is for the console and app audience.

You can't shill free software, retard.

I rather not have launchers at all and just shortcuts to the exe

No, I legally own it. They can't do shit about it.
They can never revoke the license and they don't have access to the files they sold me.

>Launchers on top of Launchers

I'm not that retarded.

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>having official launchers in the first place
You clearly are

I use it every day
My only gripe is the boot performance is pretty much garbage
inb4 too many games

You own GoG and console games because they're not tied to an account.
Pirating PC games is obviously the best way to play games.

A launcher is just a collection of exe shortcuts with a better interface

Have you ever considered that this is because you have autism?

That's Steam.

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Has PC gaming just become launcher stacking?

Second this.

Launch box/BigBox by a large margin. Don’t be fooled

Yes, that's how open platform works. Anyone can join and do whatever the fuck they want as long as it's not illegal

I don't understand, are you all memeing or something?
Do you honestly believe you use custom launchers to run official launchers, and only then you manually launch games?

The point is having every game you own on a single list. A unified library with every title on your system, doesn't matter if it's a gog game, a pirated copy, an Epic Store game, an emulated rom or whatever.

Clicking on the game doesn't bring you to steam or origin or whatever, it fucking launches the game. With the custom settings you want.
Of course Steam will run in the background if you want to play a steam game, the point is having a single, fully automated database of everything you can play, maybe with a nice interface and additional data.
Some launchers even kill their own process when you launch a game, only to restart when you quit (if you really have to worry about resource management).
They're often highly customizable (both the interface and its functions) and they're meant to make the process of selecting your game as quick and comfy as possible.

>Want to play a ubisoft game (unlikely but possible)
>Open my launcher launcher
>Try to run the game
>It launches the steam launcher
>Steam launcher launches the uplay launcher
>The game has it's own shit I need to sign up for
>Signing my fourth 150 paragraph contract
>Finally get to the main menu
>Pop up appears trying to sell me shit, click it away
>Have to click through a tutorial on how to buy and open loot boxes
>By this point 100MB of data has been transmitted from my computer to fuck knows who for fuck knows what reason
>Finally get to play the damn game
>Everything that was fun or interesting about the game was stripped away long ago at the behest of tourneyfags bitching on social media

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Finally, PC players can now enjoy the full consolefag experience

>Of course Steam will run in the background if you want to play a steam game

And that's why it's retarded to have multiple launchers. If you don't mind having multiple steam run in the background, then you could just have shortcuts to the games in a folder and launch them from there without having to use another launcher on top of it all.

I've always had the impression people who do this have more fun setting up and loading games into their launcher than actually playing them

>everyone must follow what I do or they're the bad guy!
My "excuse" is that I only use Steam, and anything outside of it is always DRM-free.

i dont even open any launchers, i just have everything i play on desktop and uninstall shit i dont play

You're the retard, Josef.

right click on the steam game (that is tied to the uplay store)
copy cd key
go to uplay client
insert that key
now you have the game in both launchers
play the uplay game in the uplay launcher
it works with most games

>name themselves after fortnite
No thanks, zagger

but i got all my games on the desktop

>then you could just have shortcuts to the games in a folder
A launcher is literally a better looking/more functional interface for an automatically organized list of shortcuts.
You're insane if you think it weights nearly as much as Steam on your system, even if you choose to let it run in the background while you play.
Even then, are you one of those people that always closes his browser and overlays before starting a game? Because each one of them have a much bigger impact on your performances. You'd still need a pretty weak pc to notice any difference

How about I just use steam for 99% of the games and GOG for certain older gems instead because none of the other ones are worth a shit?

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you either have a really big monitor, or very few games.
either way it doesn't sound like you need a launcher

>or very few games
yes of course i play on the pc, how did you know

>none of the other ones are worth a shit
delete them then

you cannot play more than one game at a time, why would you need to have tons of shit installed at once
install new game
play it till you beat it
uninstall
repeat
unless you play a lot of games like mmos or online but i dont care about those and most people have just one game to go back to(from my experience)

I got more little less than 400 games on my pc, most of them are stored on two external disks
On the other hand, I have like 7 games on PS4 and more than 20 on my 3DS

>you cannot play more than one game at a time
I don't play two games at once user, I play a game, then I play another.
I don't need to 100% a game before having a good session with another one

But steam already is the functional interface for an automatically organized list of shortcuts to my games. This sort of shit is merely a weak form of justification to the store wars.

>But steam already is the functional interface for an automatically organized list of shortcuts to my games
I didn't know Steam had integrated emulation support; still, if you really enjoy it, by all means keep using Steam as a launcher
They even made that console-styled interface after all

I just don't get what's so strange about people using an lighter open source alternative with clearly different purposes and functionalities

>This sort of shit is merely a weak form of justification to the store wars
Shit's way older than store wars, this type of software was originally conceived for the emulators crowd, then they got popular among pirates and now they're useful again thanks to publishers requiring me 5 different stores/launchers at once

I don't want to do that. I'll just buy it from GOG, pirate it, or not play at all. If it's a modern multiplayer game with no private servers, then most of that can't be helped anyway.

At least is a better solution than opening two launchers, and best of all, it's free

仕方がない

>I just don't get what's so strange about people using an lighter open source alternative with clearly different purposes and functionalities
>lighter
I don't know why you keep spouting this line like it has any validity. Yes, standalone this launcher launcher is probably lighter than the individual launchers, but it is absolutely NOT lighter when it is actually being used, i.e utilizing all other launchers along side it.

I only use gog and steam. You would have be a massive beta faggot to still buy games from ubisoft, ea, bethesda and activision.

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I just use the taskbar toolbars. It's fast, simple and does exactly what I want without any fuss

Is two 1TB m.2 nvme ssds ok

Ah never thought about that. Will look into it.

>standalone this launcher launcher is probably lighter than the individual launchers
Nigga I don't think you understand what kind of software we're talking about. It's not a fucking overlay. It doesn't require multiple processes, it doesn't have 500 different functions, it doesn't send/download data, it's literally as basic as it gets.
A collection of shortcuts with a custom pic. That's it.
How shit of a programmer you must be to fuck this up at the point it has a noticeable effect on anyone's system

This. If you're gonna have steam anyway, why bloat up your computer with a useless program? Steam wins again

How are you still not understanding the point? You're claiming it will result in lighter activity which it fucking wont you absolute braindead mongoloid.

>What is your excuse user?
Controllers support with steam in bug picture.

It's like the people who post desktop screenshots all the time. Your Linux desktop or rainmeter or whatever is cool and whatever, but don't you ever just use your PC? And isn't that covered about 95% of the time?

>If you're gonna have steam anyway
Who said that? You'll only need steam if you want to play a steam game.
If 97% of your library is on steam then you clearly don't need a launcher, but at this point we got games from
>Steam
>Epic
>Gog Galaxy
>Origin
>Itch.io
>Bethesda
>Uplay
>W10 Store
>Xbox (still in beta, but yes, really)
>Rockstar Social Club
>Battle.net
Some people just want an unified database to check and manage all the games they own at once

Just use Steam for pirated games.

>Your luxury villa or gold-plated swimming pool or whatever is cool and whatever, but don't you ever just do shit in your house? And isn't that covered about 95% of the time?

?

Great analogy, retard.

>Steam
okay
>Epic
not good
>Gog Galaxy
okay
>Origin
garbage
>Itch.io
good
>Bethesda
garbage
>Uplay
garbage
>W10 Store
okay
>>Rockstar Social Club
garbage
>Battle.net
garbage

No thanks. Fucking around with retroarch was enough. Just call me old fashioned, but I'll just stick with my folders and clicking on exe's.

>You're claiming it will result in lighter activity
No, I'm saying it requires so little you'd need a late 90s PC to notice any difference.
We're also talking about highly customizable software, you can make it as heavy as you want. My former roommate has 4k video previews for every game in his launcher (it plays them as you scroll through your library), yet Geforce Experience still have a higher weight on the overall performances at times.
Chances are, you got some useless process running right now (some kind of automatic updater? a browser helper? an useless overlay?), are you killing them all before starting a game? Every single time?
Shit sometimes I play with half of the Adobe suit running in the background and I barely notice, I can't imagine people dealing with such 2007-tier problems
Desperately trying to close useless shit to get those 3 extra frames

Even then, some launchers automatically kill their own process while games are running, but christ
you'd need a truly low spec PC to worry about this kind of stuff

>Your lucullian lunch or high cuisine or whatever is cool and whatever, but don't you ever just eat your food? And isn't that covered about 95% of the time?
Here, I improved it for (you)

>I prefer to see the covers of the games in my library, rather than a generic ugly list of endless folders in alphabetical order
What are you, some sort of faggot?

he said its lighter than steam you utter retard.
launching non-steam games through steam is heavier than doing so with a custom launcher
its only heavier if every single game you own is on steam

I just lanch my games individually however they need to be opened up, I don't need that level of conformity.

fucking dumb zoomer

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