Valve now requires developers to launch their game through the Steam client and run it for at least five minutes before submitting it for review, as part of several new additions to Steam's pre-release checklist. It doesn't have to be the developer playing, since anyone's playtime counts, as long...

Apparently, Valve keeps getting builds that were never run through Steam at all, which is how games end up with broken launch options or missing depots.

  • BlackAura@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Four months or so Blizzard dropped a new season for Diablo 4 (along with a new game update), while being “Steam Deck Verified” and the new version of the game didn’t launch at all on Linux anymore.

    The Proton team had to make an experimental Proton build which took around a day before it was fixed iirc.

    So really, even AAA devs can’t seem to test launching their games for all scenarios.