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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (31 children)

Yet another proof that Proton is a great stop-gap solution but Valve should be pushing game publishers to make native Linux ports.

[–] arthur 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (20 children)

The cost to maintain "native" ports is too high to make sense for most developers.

PS: Proton also makes it easier to preserve games since an "native" port would become incompatible overtime without work to adapt the software to changes in the system it's running.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You are getting downvoted by people that have no idea how software development and maintence works.

Every feature cost. More than most people realise. Both in development time and to maintain it over time and releases. It all adds up, not saying EA are correct in not supporting it. But to think it is free is just incorrect.

They made a business decision to not support it. We think it is the wrong decision, but it is ultimately theirs to make.

[–] arthur 0 points 6 months ago

Everybody has the right to be wrong I guess xD

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