Comment by aniviacat
3 months ago
> We are expanding our Verified program to include ratings for Steam Machine, so customers can understand how their games will run.
They are very upfront about it.
3 months ago
> We are expanding our Verified program to include ratings for Steam Machine, so customers can understand how their games will run.
They are very upfront about it.
"Verified" does not mean they will technically (and legally) support the game until its "EOS", unfortunately.
One unfortunate patch (past the "refund" time limit), valve proton side or game side, and compat is gone. And those patches do happen.
BTW, that's why I play only F2P games (without paying for any micro-transaction) via proton. Yep, PROTON = 0 BUCKS.
Valve won't provide that support: there is no way valve is going to hire tens to hundreds of advanced system devs in order to QA 100% of the "verified games" and fix their proton and/or contact the game devs to work on game patch fixes, that until those games go EOS. The other side is the game devs doing QA of their game on a linux box with proton anyway (which is 101 retarded if their game engine has already everything linux since they could build their game native linux distribution just there)... and I tell you as a system dev: fixing bugs on linux + proton is hell since there is the additional ultra-complex layer which is proton on top of the video game core software of elf/linux. This diarrhea of software engineering is what we can experience with enshitified corporate software.
In my opinion, the game only has to work for the hours the player enjoys them. Once I figured this out for myself, I became much more relaxed towards all of this. Buying is not owning, just licensing? Streaming means I don't have a local copy? Abandoned means I cannot replay the game in absence of activation servers, or the system becoming obsolete? Man, I don't care at all. When I want to play, I look at what's available to me, I choose, I play, I have fun, I create memories via screenshots and video, and then I go on my merry way. There is no need to be so serious about this stuff, we're not here to save the world, just to have some fun with some software.
And so, proton is a ton of fun. I last played Catherine with it, on the Deck. The game had bugs, sometimes it crashed to desktop. And it only ran via one specific proton config, which I had to download myself. Did I have fun? My god, best game ever. Best €5 I ever spent.
What are you talking about?
There is no official and legally required technical support for proton, requirement in tons of countries around the world.
The second there is a payment with real money, it is a scam.
In other words: PROTON = 0 BUCKS (and that includes micro-transactions), or this is a scam and very probably illegal dude.
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