Quoting: GuestWhat's Valve's endgame here?

Money. And cooperate dominance, which gets more money.
By getting more people hooked into the Valve ecosystem, you make more money. Now they can charge at every step, from hardware purchase to every software purchase. Having access to other stores doesn't matter to them. They are betting it will lower the psychological cost of entry (bring all your games with you!) and that the default-store (Steam) will outcompete the others and generate more revenue. All on a device you already paid Valve to have.

It's nothing new and fairly typical for large cooperations. Expand by monetizing the whole experience. I think there's a proper name for it, but it's escaping me.

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I'll have to try this game again. It seems right up my alley.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: platinumspoons

Quoting: SpykerThey finally found a use case for Edge on Linux :D

I guess you could call it an....

edge case

YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!! [External Link]

You beat me to it!!!

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Delivers similar or better than native image quality using temporal data

Wait, so it can make an image that's better than the original??

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: MohandevirJust read a comment from a Windows user that Vampire Survivors has the same issue on Windows desktop. It seems it's not Deck specific.

Have you contacted the devs?

The developer didn't verify it, Valve did.

Not to sound too "tin foil hat", but isn't that the point? Valve has this really interesting position of being both necessary and almost invisible to the gamer at this point, especially with their involvement in the running of a game. No one's realistically going to blame Valve when a game doesn't work, even if it is genuinely Valve's fault ( proton, steam input... Etc). The fault is hidden from the user, we just see the game not working and blame the dev (who may not even be the source of the problem, let alone be able to fix it).

In a way it's a brilliant PR position to be in as Valve reaps the benefits of publicly supporting Linux (Proton! Steam Deck!) while dodging the major criticisms of hyping what is, essentially, an unsupported platform for many games (My games doesn't work!).

Either way, regardless of where the problems running the game come from, I do agree that if there's not some consistency with the Verified label, this thing is somewhat doomed.

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Quoting: BeamboomI wonder what their use case is for 15fps, that made it this high on the priority list...!

Battery life would be my guess. In a way, I would guess it's competing against the willingness of a person to carry it around. Like if it dies halfway through a commute, eventually one might not bother carrying it anymore and just use a phone, which they carry anyway.

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Quoting: EikeI wonder what I would want to play with 15 fps though.
Not even a point and click, right?

I'd venture almost anything turn based, puzzle, or where the animations are not fast or are secondary to the gameplay.

Off the top of my head games like:
Slay the spire
Dominions 5
RimWorld
Caves of Qud
Opus Magnum
Lit

I think there are lots of games that don't need a ton of FPS.

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Wonderful op-ed. I feel some of the problems mentioned here seem like the cavalier mentality of many tech corporations.

It if curiosity, did they onboard anyone for this? There's, what, 40+ years of console certification experience in the industry out there? I'd assume they'd bring an expert on board to help design the process.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWith the magnifier, Stellaris looks surprisingly workable. I was not thinking that would be a game you'd want to play on the deck.

Me too. I'll admit I'm not the target audience for the Deck and am still a bit skeptical of it's success, but I must say it does appear to be a really nice device and launch (looking solely at the articles here).

I hope it does ok sales wise. It sounds like it certainly is.

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Destiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play's Proton unless Windows is installed and running.

[J/k] So, I'm good running it in proton in SteamOs 3 in a VM in a Windows machine?
#LinuxWillHappen!
[/J/k]

Unless it's the same reasoning Epic gave with the Linux version of EAC for BattleEye, I really don't understand moves like this.

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