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Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder how well the EA App will work - not because of Lutris, but because of how broken it is. Many people still cannot play games they have purchased for many months now. EA doesn't care and is still selling games on Steam that are broken due to their shitty launcher. For a while, some solutions to keep using Origin worked, but not anymore, least for me.

On a different note: when will this update be out on Flathub? I can't seem to find that info anywhere. Anyone knows?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Flathub has been updated by now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been running the EA app through Lutris as just a regular program and it works "fine", Sometimes it crashes on launch but all games I've played through it from Battlefield to Titanfall 2 have worked.

Funnily one of the things that got me to try Linux was the EA App randomly stopped working on my Win10 install. Seriously how has EA kept their desktop client such a buggy messes after all this time? Origin was a load of crap but I still had less issues overall with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes I've been running it like that too but sadly many games don't work with the EA App at all. Just by a glance at the official forums one finds lots of threads complaining about it, asking how to keep using Origin instead and the like. Respectively on Steam, same complaints. I'm having the "you don't own this game" issue with Mass Effect 3 since June now and there is no fix. And I own it of course. Been playing Multiplayer for years now. I was just hoping that with the integration to Lutris some of the issues might get addressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh wow, that really fixed it. That's a huge win, great job Lutris!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not using this but just wanted to comment that this is a damn nice icon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Would sit nicely next to Thunderbird and Firefox

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I feel like there's a lot of overlap between Lutris and Bottles, where do they differ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

With Lutris you can script the install process.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lutris also serves as one place for all your games. That can be quite convenient if you have games on many different accounts/services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Doesn't Bottles provide that feature too?