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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by hot_gril on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:52PM (#37559496)
Because a lot of games still won't work on Proton without a little cooperation on the dev's side. They have to at least test. Like, Age of Empires II DE goes out of sync in multiplayer games without some manual user-side patching. There's nothing obviously special about the game, not even anticheat.

And for games with heavy anticheat, it gets a lot harder.

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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by pjmlp on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:38PM (#37560177)
Nah, that is what Valve is for, after all they are the ones not bothering to improve Linux native games story.
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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by smoldesu on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:41PM (#37560218)
You're asking Valve to illegally modify and distribute other developers intellectual property? I think they very clearly draw the line there, nowhere has Valve claimed responsibility for fixing other developer's issues.
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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by pjmlp on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:48PM (#37560315)
I am not asking Valve anything, I am asserting it is up to them to make Windows games run on Proton.

Studios shouldn't care, exactly like OS/2 runs Windows apps better than Windows.

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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by hot_gril on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:53PM (#37560375)
If I'm a studio, I don't care who's "job it is" to make it work, I'm just going to make it work if I care about getting those users.
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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by pjmlp on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:35AM (#37566342)
That is the thing, they care about Windows users.
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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by smoldesu on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:09AM (#37570172)
...which is why focusing on Windows translation works so well. Any questions?
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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by hot_gril on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:36PM (#37573375)
Usually they only care about Windows users, making all of this irrelevant. We're talking about a situation where they care about Linux users for whatever reason. They can either make it Linux-native (hard) or make sure it works in Proton (easy).
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