Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
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Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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This is great news!
I do feel like for some of these games being labeled as playable, by a lot of people's standards I don't think they would say they're enjoyable to play in the state they are presented.
For example Expedition 33 is labeled as Steam Deck verified, but the quality is very poor, that I'm not sure I would be able to stand playing for long. Instead I've had to set up to stream from my PC.
Still great news though, and I hope the steam deck is considered more in the future when games are being made.
Same with Avowed. It's such a blurry mess, I don't see how anyone can play it on the deck. It does make me question every game now, even when it says verified.
Still, there are tons of games that look and play amazing on it.
Guess we need a community Steam Deck verified tag
Well, there's an app called DeckSettings that signs badges based on community reports, but they don't always have reports for games in interested in. Still, it's good to have, and it'll grow
Edit: actually the badges are from ProtonDB, which aren't as useful. E.g. Avowed has a gold badge, but if you read the comments for steam deck, they're basically all negative.
The problem then would be different. What is acceptable from user A is probably different than user B. A consensus would be difficult to find.