I think a lot of these handheld game device manufacturers are ecstatic over how the Steam Deck has legitimised the PC handheld game space.

From what I've read and watched folk enjoy the SteamOS interface, it integrates so much more nicely than what was previously possible with Windows based handhelds.

I think game device manufacturers really want a slice of that game oriented integration that SteamOS provides especially if Valve is footing the bill.

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That was quick.

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Quoting: toorWouldn't it make sense for Valve to have a report game not working button in the steam deck UI to at least have some statistic of which games should be focused.
They could also have a report game working button for games in the unsupported or unknown category.

They should probably introduce that feature for all games on the Steam platform.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: RichardYaoLiam, as I said previously, being Steam Deck verified is not an official announcement of support because the developer has no control over whether Valve does it. The only thing close to an official announcement that we received was the developer merging its steam deck compatibility branch into master, which is not a promise of long term support.

Please stop treating Steam Deck verified status as some kind of official announcement going forward. Steam Deck verified status just means that the game passed Valve's compatibility checklist. Consequently, the steam deck verified status is likely to be revoked unless the developer fixes this ASAP.

That being said, if you restore a backup of the `easyanticheat_x64.so` file (default location: `~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Apex Legends/easyanticheat_x64.so`) after the update, the game will continue to work. Since a number of people at Valve play Apex Legends, I imagine that they will be contacting the developer about this, so it is possible that another update will restore out of box support soon, assuming that they do not disable the server support. As long as the server support for Proton remains in place, it is possible that this was a mistake. If server support breaks, then we know that this is intentional.

I disagree. If Deck Verified is not confirmation that it's supported (by either Valve or the developer), then it quite frankly makes it pointless. This is one of the only things the Deck has, and I will continue to report on it.

Valve advertise Verified / Playable status on their store for everyone to see, and on their Steam Deck Library pages and in the Steam Deck Storefront itself has a dedicated section just for these titles that shows by default.

If it's not official, then Valve 100% should not show it. It's as simple as that, otherwise it's thoroughly misleading and I will continue to report on it the good and bad because it's important and this whole situations only highlights further as to why.

Hopefully this will improve overtime as developers consider Steam Deck a viable market and treat it as a 1st priority platform.

Looking at Apex Legends specifically it does appear that Apex was verified with developer engagement, the anti-cheat wouldn't have been there otherwise.

What it does highlight is that a game should really be reverified upon a new update.

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It's probably an oversight, not all developers on a dev-team will be clued into what each file is for.

It's generally a matter of members getting use to it.

Though it also seems like a lot of users are having server issues too, so it may have been a bad update all together.

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Quoting: elmapuli dont want to be the thin foil hat here, but i bet sony, nintendo , microsoft, google or amazon are involved.
some partner of then may have asked then to say bullshit like that.
google had to pay capcom 10 millions to support their platform with resident evil 7 and 8, imagine their face when valve get this for free while they have to do deals?
the same probably goes for amazon and any un stabilished platform.
even nintendo, sony and microsoft strugle to get thirdy party support when they relase an new unproven platform.

Best not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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It's good to see games being updated to work better on the Steam Deck. Though many of these games work on top of Proton if the Deck garners a large enough gathering future games may become native.

We can only hope!

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Reading between the lines of the statement in the article it suggests they are more interested in developing their current game than fulfilling their promise of a Linux port. With the ultimate reason being: they can't be arsed it seems.

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A very diplomatic answer, also a perfectly logical one, Valve is interested in games working, how as far as they are concerned is irrelevant.

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Marci was great in the TV series, and I look forward to trying her out in game.

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