I have refunded games before when I went to install and got that bullshit because I missed it on the store page

IT's so crazy to run into a comment that speaks about this. I recently got the urge to play Mass Effect, and wanted to replay through the series. I have had the game bought when it went on sale. I download all 100+gb of the game, and launch it to see some performance. EA app required. I might just request a refund, and then pirate the game, to be real with you all.

Which was launched by your kernel which in turn was launched by systemd-boot. Now isn't that cute?

Did that too a while back, but anecdotally it feels lees buggy through Steam, especially regarding updates.

Also clicking the Stop button in Steam doesn't leave behind zombie processes off Battle.net.exe and Agent.exe, which I had to manually kill when using Lutris. Assume that's due to Protons(?) pressure-vessel thingy.

At least you can launch those without their launchers.

Of course you could always add GOG Galaxy to Steam to get the ultimate perversion.

The WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 %command% is the Steam launch option you set, with %command% meaning roughly "what Steam would do without any launch options set".

The whole process was a bit finicky and I did it a few month ago, but from what I remember it went something like this:

• Download battle.net installer
• Add it as non-Steam game to run it
• Locate the newly created prefix in Steam directory
• Add the Battle.net.exe in it as a non-Steam game, then remove the installer (not the other way around or the prefix will be deleted)

It's to puts stuff before the game run command.

Normally if you just add options in that box like -fullscreen they appear after the run command.

It is used in the Launch Options of a Steam game. %command% just gets replaced by whatever Steam would use to launch the game. It's useful to set up anything before the game actually launches, such as setting environment variables or run scripts.

I don't know why people go through all this trouble just to give money to publishers that don't give a shit about you. There's nothing on Blizzard worth buying anymore. Don't bother. Blizzard is, for all intents and purposes, dead.

Installing battle.net in steam is really easy. Just add non-steam game in steam and choose the battle.net installer, then right click on it in steam and click properties, then compatibility, and choose Force the user of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool and choose Proton Experimental. Then just run it and install it like normal. Once it's finished you just repeat the process for the actual installed battle.net program or whatever blizzard game you want. With this, you don't have to mess with running custom commands. The blizzard launcher will be located somewhere like "/home/me/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2806461641/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft II/StarCraft II.exe" where the big number after compatdata is something else. You can run the command find ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata -iname '*battle*.exe to help find it. Also you can tell Steam to always use proton experimental if you want, it's been good to me. Good luck!

I'd rather not play anything then.

I have a steam deck and getting assassin's creed... dunno, brotherhood? to run was so annoying, I thought about just letting it be. I'll stay away from their games now.

That launcher is so infuriating, I'm staying away from their games. Fuck them with a steamboat.

What's wrong with Bottles?

No. Don't do that. Use wine-ge instead.

You can still make shortcuts to your steam games to launch them outside of steam. However I have noticed that the Blizzard launcher doesn't seem to fully quit after quitting the system tray icon, I have to click stop game in steam. I guess I still prefer this to having unused wine/proton process running in the background.