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.

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Next step is to send someone over to all these studios to hold their hand and feed them treats.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Newly added:

Ghostrunner
Hades
Eastward

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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.

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Aw Witcher 3, so close. You can do it buddy! Kidding, it's nice that Valve are applying some standards.



Total War: Warhammer II getting verified is amazing for a device with such a small screen, no mouse, and a total (heh) CPU hog.

Games really should support bigger font sizes anyway, even for desktop or TV use, purely from an accessibility standpoint.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: rustybroomhandleI do hate this.

But what did Microsoft spend this buttload of money on? Maybe 5 franchises, some of them on their last legs.

I guess we'll find out whether they have enough extra to buy some spare legs. :wink:

They need to sort out the workers issue first. I hope someone has reached out to some of them to see how they feel about all this.

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I do hate this.

But what did Microsoft spend this buttload of money on? Maybe 5 franchises, some of them on their last legs. King is probably worth more to them than Blizzard in the long run.

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