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[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably they understood that they couldn’t realistically check every new and old game out there and that people could patch games themselves, so it would be kind of misleading and pointless. Just like SteamDeck now: you get the “not-compatible” warning with working games that don’t have a nice starting UX but that works just fine

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They could add an optional plugin that uses protondb to get a quick overview of compatability

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

ProtonDB isn't a Steam product though, it's a crowdsourced community effort built and maintained by users. Steam pulling that into their official infrastructure would immediately put a ton of technical stress on the project. It would also be pushing on that boundary between a corporation supporting a community project and drafting all its volunteers as unpaid labor.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

There is a decky plugin for that already tbf