Update 13/03/20 Proton 5.0-2 is out as a minor release:

Fix frequent crash introduced in Proton 5.0-1 related to video and audio playback.
Fix Planet Coaster crash on launch.
Fix Subnautica graphical issue.

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Update: They disabled Unity Analytics for now.

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Quoting: ArdjeWould be nice if they can apply some ip matching to match the original Steam account with the Smurf Steam account, and address warnings there too. But then again, that might be a privacy issue.
Maybe they should ask the right to process your IP against fraud cases like this.

Yup, fully agree. Perhaps this is part of what they're doing and how they're matching up already.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI need to try this game!

I used to love AoE, I'll be showing my age a bit here, demo, daijyoubu lol

I remember it distinctly most for it's online side, Internet Gaming Zone (Anyone remember?).

Although, back then the most popular strategy, myself included was to build as many archary camps in one big long row, fields and town centres as you could before the other guy.

Then just outright outright spam your enemy with horse archers and other military as fast as you could while generating hundreds of archers in a row while your others die and kill then just keep going... oh good times!😂

Perhaps I should play it a little differently these days. 😂

Spoiler, click me

Back in the day, you could play online with the demo version of the game, or if you're smart, a pirated version, which their gaming zone happily allowed without any checks or problems

Internet Gaming Zone, now that's something I've not heard of in a long time. I remember it well from my early years online trying to play games with it heh.

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Quoting: PatolaSure. But if it doesn't follow technological progress and new possibilities adopted by dozens of competing titles, it becomes more and more a niche thing, instead of "one of the best space action games ever"...

I think honestly this is just your bias for it showing. You don't have to be able to get out and walk around, to be classed as having progress. All games are different. Freespace does not and has never needed you to get out and walk around. It's also about doing one thing and doing it well, something other games could learn from before putting lots of unfinished and rough feeling features in ;)

We have genres for a reason, not everything needs to be a do-everything sim.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Liam DaweWell, Linux as a whole certainly isn't going anywhere and it seems at least Valve is committed to supporting the Steam store on Linux for many years to come. Even if they end up perhaps phasing out Proton one day, the work they've already helped push forwards has been invaluable to a lot of open source projects.

Sure, I appreciate what they are doing!
Not working out was meant in the way jens was hoping for: Rising Linux Steam user numbers by a significant amount.

Yeah I get that :)

For the Linux share to rise, there needs to be a lot more happening outside of our own control and Valve's. Alone, they're just not enough to push it. We need more bigger hardware vendors to offer it, advertise it and so on.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: jensI admit, I could be wrong by a few years ;). Though I honestly think this is our best bet to break the current chicken and egg situation.

Unfortunately, I don't have a better one.
I just fear neither "No Tux, no bux" nor Proton worked out or will work out.

Well, Linux as a whole certainly isn't going anywhere and it seems at least Valve is committed to supporting the Steam store on Linux for many years to come. Even if they end up perhaps phasing out Proton one day, the work they've already helped push forwards has been invaluable to a lot of open source projects.

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Quoting: PatolaVery good game for its time but we are already in the Space Legs age... :)

Not everyone wants to get out and walk around though. Some of us love the combat. That's why different games and styles are good, it's not a one-size fits-all approach and doesn't need to be.

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Quoting: toorAre they not morally engaged as they white list a game? I would expect a white listed game to work, and if it doesn't, that they would kind of make it a priority to get it to work again.
On the other hand, for other games you are on your own in theory. That's what I have been thinking about it.

I still prefere that they focus on performance and compatibility in general though

Valve never made any claims about what they support. Edit: In fact, their original announcement made it clear nothing would be marked as supported during the Beta (and it never left Beta).

Part of the reason I tried to get an interview but it didn't go anywhere sadly. They have their two-hour refund window, and that's how they can get around the initial "oh it doesn't start" - but if it breaks after you've played a while - we have to wait on updates to Proton.

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: RickAndTired"early stage" he says, yet Proton already allows me to play so many great games effortlessly. I can't wait to see where it keeps going.

Any idea when they're going to update the "white list"?

protondb has a pretty long list of my games with a "Gold+" or "Platinum" rating, yet the "white list" for Proton hasn't been updated in quite a while...

and

Quoting: gojulAnyway a whitelist update would be great.

Why? What do you both need from the whitelist keeping in mind you can manually set Proton on any game now? The whitelist was originally from before they let us do that.

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