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EG Link

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Version 0.18.0, released 27 October 2026. For Windows 10 and 11. The installer is signed by JIVES CORP., the company behind Efficient Games. It installs for your Windows user only and never asks for administrator rights.

Download EG Link for Windows

The app updates itself after that, so this is the only download you need.

What the app does

  • EG Link connects the supported games you play to your Efficient Games account.
  • If the game supports it, an add-on is installed to track in-game details and sync them to Efficient Games (see your game's tab below for specifics).
  • You can disconnect the app from your Efficient Games account at any time, via the Connected Apps tab of your profile.
  • Using the app is completely free and helps contribute data to the community.

How to install

  1. Download the app above and run the installer.
    1. A brand-new app can make Windows show a blue "Windows protected your PC" box at first. Choose More info and check that the publisher says JIVES CORP. before choosing Run anyway.
  2. The EG Link App will open and live in your system tray, by the clock.
    1. Clicking it there is how you reopen the app, if you ever need to adjust settings.
  3. In the EG Link App, click Sign in.
    1. You will be brought to the Efficient Games website to sign in or create an account.
  4. Specific games may have additional installation steps, which can be found below.

Game-specific details

EG Link works with the games below.

Setting up

The app installs EG Link into every WoW Forever installation it finds. They're listed in its World of Warcraft card; use Add a WoW folder if one is missing. It updates the add-on when a new version is out. If the game was running, type /reload in chat so the add-on loads, and check that EG Link is ticked in the AddOns list at character select.

What EG Link records in WoW Forever

  • The quests the game can describe, and who gives and ends each one.
  • The trainers and vendors you visit, and what they offer.
  • Flight masters and flight times.
  • What drops, and from what.
  • Quest progression and rewards.
  • The creatures, objects, and items you come across.

The game saves this when you log out, exit or reload your UI, and the app uploads it soon after.
When using Advanced Combat Logging, the game will record combat logs in real time that will be synced to Efficient Games, when enabled.

Unless you turn sending your combat logs to Efficient Games off in the app, it also sends the lines of every fight in them, so you can see its damage, healing and deaths. The combat log names players by first name only, so it also sends the last names of the players in your group, which the add-on reads in the game, and their guilds. Your combat logs can be accessed from the WoW Forever menu. A daily cleanup task deletes boss fights, with their Rankings entries, after 12 months and all other fights after 7 days, or you can delete them sooner, or your entire account.

Boss fights stay private until you make them public, on the fight's page or, for new ones, with the app's setting, which is off until you turn it on. Anyone can see a public fight, search engines included, and the WoW Forever Rankings list its players by name, with their last names where we know them, and each group's guilds. If you keep your report of a fight private, your character is shown as its class and a number, such as "Mage 1", and is left out of the Rankings. The app sends each of your characters with the game's identifier for it, so the fights it is in know it as yours, and on My Characters you can hide it from public fights and the Rankings the same way. Other fights are never public. The app also sends your game's region with each fight, for the Rankings' region filter.

What EG Link never uploads from WoW Forever

Your Battle.net or game account name, chats, or your computer's information, such as username or file paths.

Where it's published

The combined WoW Forever data is at github.com/JIVESCORP/eg-link-output-wowf, free under CC BY 4.0. More sensitive data, such as character names, are only uploaded to Efficient Games.

Your uploads become a permanent part of the published data, so they can't be deleted. You can see them on the EG Link Uploads tab of your profile. If you delete your account, we delete the uploaded files and keep the game data taken from them, no longer linked to you.

World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. EG Link is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard.

EG Link is covered by section 27 of our Terms of Use and the EG Link section of our Privacy Policy.