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0 pointsGeekyBear2y ago0 comments

> Seems like an odd scapegoat.

Only if you expect developers and/or studios to work for no pay.

Why do you think we live in a world where you need an internet connection to play a single player game? Developers need a way to be sure you've paid up.

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smoldesu2y ago

Valve had no problem porting thousands of games to Steam Deck without paying developers a dime. It is a proven fact that a functional DXVK/Wine runtime can support more AAA video games than whatever Apple is paying for.

You keep bringing this around to revenue, but Apple could solve this problem if they didn't benefit from the status quo. A company 10x smaller than them did it, a company with full control over their hardware stack has no excuse to drag their feet and copy Open Source's homework.

chaostheory2y ago

Steam is a DRM platform. Other than that I agree with everything you said.

What you’re missing is that Apple has their own proton that they’re using to help developers port their games like what Valve is doing with proton. Imo most of Apple still hates games if it didn’t bring in so much revenue. Now we have a small team trying to change that at Apple similar to how WSL for Windows came to being. I just hope that the higher ups continue to support and promote Apple’s “proton”

SleepyMyroslav2y ago

>they’re using to help developers port their games like what Valve is doing with proton.

Well Apple and Valve are doing exact opposite things with their tools. Let me explain.

Valve runs your windows game unmodified. There is no 'porting process' and there is no 'port'. As person working with large publisher I am still in shock and disbelief that it is legal and works well in practice but here we are. The funny part is when developer of windows version of a game is asked 'how well do you support Steam Deck?'. And developer has to do windows version changes and produce new windows version that has tweaks for Steam Deck.

smoldesu2y ago

Apple's Proton is just a fork of DXVK with less upstream support and a more restrictive redistribution license. The best "support" money can buy is killing Game Porting Toolkit and supporting Vulkan in-OS. They're already an underdog in the graphics API world, playing hardball with people who don't care will just end up in a lot of unported games.

Karunamon2y ago

Because data collection and upselling, and because advertising. Blaming the tiny minority of people who pirate for the enshittification plaguing basically all software right now is a poor excuse. Show me the numbers.

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smoldesu2y ago

chaostheory2y ago

Steam is a DRM platform. Other than that I agree with everything you said.

SleepyMyroslav2y ago

>they’re using to help developers port their games like what Valve is doing with proton.

Well Apple and Valve are doing exact opposite things with their tools. Let me explain.

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Karunamon2y ago

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