A big milestone has just been hit for the Steam Deck, as there's now over 10,000 titles rated to be either Verified or Playable.
  • nottheengineer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately verification is massively broken.

    It’s only ever revisited after updates when a huge company breaks all their games and valve has shown in the past that they’re willing to bend the rules of verification for some high-profile games.

    We should ignore it and use protondb instead. You always get the latest comments from people and there is no corporation with a conflict of interest behind it.

    • TeddE@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      While it’s unfortunate that the verification process isn’t iron-clad, it still reflects a good goal and substantial progress toward it. The fact is, the verification program serves more as a fancy inventory of how their software catalog runs on Proton/Linux and Valve is probably more worried about games people play that are no longer actively developed than it is on fixing every game for every developer.

      Personally, I suspect that 3-5 years from now, once Valve has done a complete once-over of their complete library, they’ll come back around with a ‘premium’ version of verified that’s more geared toward requirements for current and new games, one which is more focused on working with active developers.