• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    No it doesn't.

    Any other store can straight rip their compatibility tools if they want. It's not their fault no one else can be bothered.

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      1 year ago

      … it literally contains the Steamworks SDK: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton which becomes pretty awkward to ship on your own storefront. You'd have to do a good bit of work to make Proton steam-free. No one is going to do that for 2% of the market. Just like arguing you could use Chromium and anyone who wants to make a browser can use it but realistically it creates an ecosystem around Google and for Proton, around Valve.

      Don't forget that the only reason Proton even exists is because they added a version of Steam Play to Linux Steam users.

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        https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom

        One dev does it in his spare time. I use it to run games that aren't on Steam like Ubisoft and Blizzard stuff.

        But yes, as a software company you'd probably have to pay someone to create and maintain a similar release for your own use - but that's part of being a software company.