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Your confidence is misplaced. Digital assets rot away soon after their maintenance ceases. Gabe Newell is 61 years old. Who knows what will happen after the BDFL gets tired of all this?


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acomjean10/12/2024

I know proton isn’t exactly emulation, but the “windows” target platform might be supported for a while..especially since it’s running on Linux pretty well. (Any game on steam deck is a running on linux)

Kind of like emulation keeps working.. or I can play my old doom wad files in a new doom executable.

But you are right that I’m kinda betting that things will continue as is with steam.