You think the company facilitating DRM and micro transactions won’t ban your account the instant it detects you’re not using their approved proprietary version of Proton? You don’t think they’ll implement breaking changes to make the open source version useless?
have we seen examples of such behaviour from valve yet? i don’t think they’re without fault, but worrying about shutting down their open source developments has no basis imo
I don’t trust any corporation to keep their open source projects completely open forever. As soon as profits dip they’ll start looking at open source as a missed opportunity to squeeze more money out of users. Look at, oh I don’t know, Reddit, Android, VSCode, Redis, MongoDB, Sentry, Draw.io, Elastic, Hashi, CentOS, and especially OpenAI. Remember, they own the IPs, they can switch licenses at will and take all the community contributions with it. And it’s not always as overt as making the whole thing proprietary all at once. They’ll slowly start introducing proprietary components until the open source part is basically useless without them.
maybe if they go public, the shareholders would pressure them, but until then, they are doing well enough, by any standard, to just keep going as they were
Big publishers are the bigger threat when it comes to Linux compatibility, since they want DRM and will block anticheat support and want microtransactions and always online in their games. Like what happened to GTA V online And Apex when it came to discontinued Linux compatibility and Battlefield and Fortnite when it comes to anticheat support.
That’s less a launcher problem but big corporate gaming backed games in general. If someone is that fearful of a launcher when it comes to that they should be more concerned with big publisher games everyone gets hyped about year after year than a game launcher on an open platform.
Wouldn’t it just get forked?
Sure, once it happens they can add more features, but there’s already proton forks today that are recommended for some games, such as https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Sure, the company is for profit, but I don’t really see a mechanism where a rugpull is possible here.
You think the company facilitating DRM and micro transactions won’t ban your account the instant it detects you’re not using their approved proprietary version of Proton? You don’t think they’ll implement breaking changes to make the open source version useless?
have we seen examples of such behaviour from valve yet? i don’t think they’re without fault, but worrying about shutting down their open source developments has no basis imo
I don’t trust any corporation to keep their open source projects completely open forever. As soon as profits dip they’ll start looking at open source as a missed opportunity to squeeze more money out of users. Look at, oh I don’t know, Reddit, Android, VSCode, Redis, MongoDB, Sentry, Draw.io, Elastic, Hashi, CentOS, and especially OpenAI. Remember, they own the IPs, they can switch licenses at will and take all the community contributions with it. And it’s not always as overt as making the whole thing proprietary all at once. They’ll slowly start introducing proprietary components until the open source part is basically useless without them.
maybe if they go public, the shareholders would pressure them, but until then, they are doing well enough, by any standard, to just keep going as they were
Big publishers are the bigger threat when it comes to Linux compatibility, since they want DRM and will block anticheat support and want microtransactions and always online in their games. Like what happened to GTA V online And Apex when it came to discontinued Linux compatibility and Battlefield and Fortnite when it comes to anticheat support.
That’s less a launcher problem but big corporate gaming backed games in general. If someone is that fearful of a launcher when it comes to that they should be more concerned with big publisher games everyone gets hyped about year after year than a game launcher on an open platform.