Comment by npteljes
3 months ago
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.
I'm talking about being more relaxed to this kind of stuff. The world is full of wonders, and problems. Most of them deserving more attention than this non-issue. Proton, and Valve's rating system is working fine.
Don't do drugs mate.
But the right way to fix this, is valve hiring tens to hundreds of advanced system devs in order to QA (replay the games, 100%, at each patch proton side or game side) and technically support (omega-hell, because of the additional ultra-complex layer which is proton) all the games sold on elf/linux+proton. Unless the game devs are ready to deal with the software diarrhea of the debugging hell which is elf/linux+proton, valve, at each transaction which is buying a windows game on a elf/linux platform, a clear disclaimer should be given to the user if no official support is provided, or even blocked if illegal in the country of the transaction.
Obviously, it may backfire.
Don't forget: elf/linux + proton(wine) is a diarrhea of software engineering, 101 example of corporate grade software enshitification. Compared to windows, this "thing", has the decency to be free as in free beer and can be customized deeply, namely, remove tons of things, even though the tantrums of the steam client are seriously annoying and do force upon us very expensive linux "features"... aka only because too few elf/linux system devs at valve are competent enough to generate 'correct' elf binaries for broad elf/linux distro compat.
If the "steamdeck" continues to grow and the steam machine is enough of a success, game devs will be inclined to provide a native elf/linux build, much easier to technically support.
In the meantime, PROTON = 0 BUCKS is the only sane and honest way...
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