Not just the Deck. Having these games work there also means I have an easier time transitioning my desktop to Linux.
Valve is probably responsible for me moving to Linux fully because of proton and how steam works on Linux. While I would be bitching nonstop about Microsoft, I don’t know if getting off windows would be worth it to me if it was a hassle to play games.
Working harder on your game makes it better! Wow!
But seriously, it’s great that Valve is leading the way pushing demand for this.
It’s not really about working harder. Before, it just wasn’t a justifiable expense investing time into ensuring proton support or even linux support because a sub 1% OS just isn’t “worth” supporting from a financial standpoint. That changed with the steamdeck and because the steamdeck is actually just a small PC with built-in controller, things that profit the deck also profit the linux ecosystem.
Honestly the steam deck was a genius move from valve.
Devs targeting Steam Deck Verified sets a bar for performance that ends up including other PCs with integrated graphics or those with older graphics cards (up to ~10 years)
By extended the usable life of older gaming hardware, It’s even a win from an environmental point of view.
because the steamdeck is actually just a small PC
That is very contrary to what’s the point of the article. Supporting the Steam deck also means supporting the controller and the small screen format. Things that can benefit users of Windows based handhelds too.
And people who use controllers in general. And people with small screens. And people with poor vision. And …
Read the article - this isn’t just about Linux support.
Steam Deck verified is like 90% done towards linux support
Please try reading the article.
No
Wush!
Way to completely miss the message. Which include how user interfaces need to be usable on the small screen, and to make optimizations for lower end hardware and not just focus on mid range and high end.The exception being that if you make a very high end complex game, it may be better to not support Steam Deck at all, because if it doesn’t play well, it shouldn’t pretend to work.
That … that’s the hard work.
No it’s not the hard work, it is about working differently.
yes, that’s the hard work they were talking about. why are you even arguing when you’re agreeing with what they say?
Wush! Way to completely miss the message.
Wooosh, indeed (that’s how it’s spelled, btw).
Please believe it when a seasoned professional informs you that ingesting user feedback, implementing good UIs, and optimization are all hard work.
Chiming in to say that witchfire is a great game and I think a rather unique singleplayer extraction shooter with bloodborne style dodging and you should play it (on the steam deck)
Is this the one that’s like 3D Hexen
It’s a super impressive game, and also very punishing. There are so many times where I get hit with crazy difficulty spikes and lose a ton of loot I spent several hours collecting. I had a particularly bad loss deep in the castle level that made me drop the game until 1.0.
I’ll be back
It sets a baseline performance target that is really low. It’s an integrated GPU laptop that’s not close to high end integrated GPUs anymore. Makes your potential audience pretty much the whole of the steam userbase rather than the like RTX 3060+ userbase
Well, that’s the last excuse I needed. Time to finally buy Witchfire.
I don’t think it makes it better for everybody, but I agree every developer should support the Steam Deck.
I’ve not read the article, so I don’t know if they specify it, but I thinks it comes to performance too, not just proton-usability. Since you target a “console” rather than whatever you are using to test on, that’s a win for other devices too. I’m just guessing here
But optimizing for low hardware does not mean its a win for everyone. For lot of people who have strong enough configuration does not care the performance at the portable level. There is no real benefit for them.
When we are talking about for example 10 years from now it means the people with strong configurations today, will still be able to play new games with the same pc if the games are being targeted to a lower spec (at that time) pcs. So it will benefit everyone and it’s a win for everyone.
You make some assumptions about who will benefit. And those are not “everyone”.
