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Easy Anti-Cheat gets much simpler for Proton and Steam Deck
23 Jan 2022 at 9:48 am UTC Likes: 1
There are two arguments against switching on anti-cheat for Linux that I will begrudgingly accept on their own but not together. And by "accept" I mean I accept that the person making the excuse believes what they are saying, not that I necessarily agree.

They are as follows:

1. The 1% Linux market is too small to support
2. If we enable our game for Linux we might get an influx of cheaters

These two excuses can not exist together.
Easy Anti-Cheat gets much simpler for Proton and Steam Deck
22 Jan 2022 at 2:07 pm UTC
Quoting: Solitary
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: MalAnd that's indeed few clicks away. Unless a studio lost the sources or the libraries, there is little excuse now to not add support.

Well done, both Valve and Epic!
It's even less effort for BattlEye and has been for a while now, and yet I can't think of one game that has asked BattlEye to flip the switch.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/12/more-battleye-titles-for-proton-on-linux-including-dayz-arma-3-now-supported/
Thanks. Sadly nothing yet that I am keeping an eye on. Hoping the verification name&shame will help.
Easy Anti-Cheat gets much simpler for Proton and Steam Deck
22 Jan 2022 at 12:17 pm UTC Likes: 11
Quoting: stormtuxI do not understand if this this simplification will allow both versions of Easy-Anticheat (the Epic Online Services version and the old one, as wrote by the Vermintide2 developers some weeks ago) to work without upgrading the code base?
The announcement says it will work with any EAC and not require any EOS integration any more.

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Easy Anti-Cheat gets much simpler for Proton and Steam Deck
22 Jan 2022 at 10:30 am UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: MalAnd that's indeed few clicks away. Unless a studio lost the sources or the libraries, there is little excuse now to not add support.

Well done, both Valve and Epic!
It's even less effort for BattlEye and has been for a while now, and yet I can't think of one game that has asked BattlEye to flip the switch.
Easy Anti-Cheat gets much simpler for Proton and Steam Deck
22 Jan 2022 at 10:16 am UTC Likes: 30
Next step is to send someone over to all these studios to hold their hand and feed them treats.
Game devs don't seem convinced on the Steam Deck from the GDC 2022 survey
21 Jan 2022 at 2:41 pm UTC
Quoting: jpHow many minutes I can play on Steam Deck (especially via Proton)?
Most likely it is another Valve fail.
7-8 hours on games that are not super demanding

Portal 2 supposedly 4 hours

I'm guessing heavier titles like Control or God of War will be less.
Game devs don't seem convinced on the Steam Deck from the GDC 2022 survey
21 Jan 2022 at 12:56 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: GuestIf you're developing a game, there are certain targets to meet, support to be wanted, and ROI to take into account. I'm beginning to think that in their rush to appeal to end users, Valve might have forgotten to put as much effort into appealing to developers.

Either that, or perhaps Valve's approach is not to appeal to developers, and just try have games run fine anyway. Not an entirely unresonable idea at all; the idea is basically to have existing games on a handheld rather than bringing anything new to the table from a developer perspective, and so the survey results aren't really surprising.
With Steam Machines they did try a developer-first approach and they just could not get a lot of them to bite. Proton at least means they have less dev asskissing to do.
Game devs don't seem convinced on the Steam Deck from the GDC 2022 survey
21 Jan 2022 at 11:32 am UTC Likes: 38
On GoG you can get games with no DRM.

On Steam you can get games with DRM.

On NFT platforms you get just the DRM.
A whole bunch of games just got Steam Deck Verified
21 Jan 2022 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 1
Newly added:

Ghostrunner
Hades
Eastward
A whole bunch of games just got Steam Deck Verified
20 Jan 2022 at 11:45 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: CatKillerOne thing that I'd like developers to do is confirm that if their game is running through Proton and is Deck Verified, that they are also testing their game through Proton themselves - especially before they release updates. It would make a big difference to how much money I'm willing to give them. Hopefully they won't want to lose their nice checkmark, so they will test, but if they don't say they're testing then I'm going to assume that they're not.
I should hope that if one reports a game as broken after an update on a Steam Deck that whomever handles support at Valve will be able to mark it as such. Valve is not huge on housekeeping though, but maybe the Steam Deck has changed this a bit. It'd be a mindset shift that would benefit Windows gamers too.