In recent years, LINE has been making constant moves, continuing to expand its territory, and recently announced its entry into the PC gaming platform. Just like other platforms, LINE has created an exclusive LINE POD launcher. After installation, players can play all games directly in it. Two popular games are currently on the shelves.
LINE launches LINE POD PC gaming platform
Recently, LINE announced the launch of a new LINE POD game platform in Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries, supporting multiple languages. The first wave of online games are “Gu Jian Qi Tan Online Edition” and “FreeStyle”. It also announced that more exclusive games will be launched in the future, such as: “Hunter Arena: Legend”, “Heroes Reborn Online” and “EOS”.
The LINE POD official website has also been launched. The latest news will be announced here. Those who are interested in playing it can go to the download page to download the launcher:
On the launcher screen, you need to log in with a LINE account, and you can also use QR Code to scan, just like the desktop version of LINE:
This set will be connected to your LINE account, so you need to obtain some permissions before you can continue:
And become a LINE POD member:
According to LINE’s official statement, the vision of LINE POD is to provide players with one-stop gaming services. In the future, it will gradually integrate various social functions of LINE, such as allowing you to easily communicate with friends and other online game players. It will also gradually introduce different types of PC online games and even mobile games.
Of course, it is not surprising that these games will have in-app purchases. Currently, Mycard and Telecom small-amount payments are available, and LINE Pay payments will be opened in the short term.
Currently, there are only two games available for play in the initial stage. FreeStyle 3vs3 Bullfight is free to play, while the online version of Gu Jian Qi Tan costs 3 yuan per hour. In addition, from now until 6/10, if you complete different tasks in the online version of Gu Jian Qi Tan, you will get 1,000 minutes of free game time:
If you have never played this game through LINE, a message that requires authorization will pop up at the beginning:
There will also be information on minimum and recommended hardware specifications for your reference. In particular, games in the LINE POD launcher are downloaded and installed separately, just like you download software and games from the Internet. Unlike Steam, Epic Games or Uplay, you download and install them directly in the launcher. This is a bit strange. I don’t know if it is because it has just been launched:
As shown below, this is the installation file of FreeStyle:
However, after installation, launching the game is through LINE POD:
In the future, if LINE can really port all mobile games to computers, it will be really good news for players. They will no longer have to use troublesome emulators.
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Source: KOCPC Chinese