take 30% of every god damn games sold on the platform and you don’t own you games.
they also provide both proton completely for free, and the entire steam marketplace, as well as any other additional functionality, steam networking for ex, with that 30% cut.
It’s a large cut, but you’re not really going to find a better option. Sure you could release on GOG, i think like 12 people use GOG though.
Yeah,I mean Proton is basically Wine - A free and open-source project developed by hundred of people over the years - with some extra patches. It’s great, but the only reason they did it is to sell steam decks.
Steam does certain things really well, but in the end it’s just a capitalist business. I don’t get why gamers can be that bitchy about studios, that employ thousands of devs and artists, people who just wants to make good games but needs to deal with executives, but will rip their shirt a soon as someone criticize steam. They do no care about you, your experience, or even video games, they only care about money.
proton is not “basically wine” proton is built ON TOP of wine, yes, but the focus of the wine team is not supporting ONLY video games, it’s supporting windows applications through an compatibility layer. The focus of proton is specifically enabling the support of video games through wine, via proton, and proton is open source. In fact it seems like it’s BSD licensed? Which is the most permissive license out there, so the wine team could take the work of proton and upstream it tomorrow if they wanted.
It’s great, but the only reason they did it is to sell steam decks.
that’s like starting a resturant franchise, by building 10000 locations in the US, just to start selling some mediocre fast food. Evidently the steamdeck must not be the intention of proton, it’s goals seem to be much farther in the future, the steam deck probably a platform to test it (because its not like the steamdeck is the most successful console ever, they don’t sell a live service, and the hardware isn’t very expensive.)
Steam does certain things really well, but in the end it’s just a capitalist business.
yeah, we live in a capitalist society though, i guess it could be a hypothetically perfect society where money doesn’t exist, but we don’t live in one do we?
They do no care about you, your experience, or even video games, they only care about money.
and yet, one of the things you need to care about, is the user, because otherwise, you make no money!
they also provide both proton completely for free, and the entire steam marketplace, as well as any other additional functionality, steam networking for ex, with that 30% cut.
It’s a large cut, but you’re not really going to find a better option. Sure you could release on GOG, i think like 12 people use GOG though.
Yeah,I mean Proton is basically Wine - A free and open-source project developed by hundred of people over the years - with some extra patches. It’s great, but the only reason they did it is to sell steam decks.
Steam does certain things really well, but in the end it’s just a capitalist business. I don’t get why gamers can be that bitchy about studios, that employ thousands of devs and artists, people who just wants to make good games but needs to deal with executives, but will rip their shirt a soon as someone criticize steam. They do no care about you, your experience, or even video games, they only care about money.
proton is not “basically wine” proton is built ON TOP of wine, yes, but the focus of the wine team is not supporting ONLY video games, it’s supporting windows applications through an compatibility layer. The focus of proton is specifically enabling the support of video games through wine, via proton, and proton is open source. In fact it seems like it’s BSD licensed? Which is the most permissive license out there, so the wine team could take the work of proton and upstream it tomorrow if they wanted.
that’s like starting a resturant franchise, by building 10000 locations in the US, just to start selling some mediocre fast food. Evidently the steamdeck must not be the intention of proton, it’s goals seem to be much farther in the future, the steam deck probably a platform to test it (because its not like the steamdeck is the most successful console ever, they don’t sell a live service, and the hardware isn’t very expensive.)
yeah, we live in a capitalist society though, i guess it could be a hypothetically perfect society where money doesn’t exist, but we don’t live in one do we?
and yet, one of the things you need to care about, is the user, because otherwise, you make no money!