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5 years later Valve finally gives Windows compatibility tool Proton a logo (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They were busy with other things like making sure things work.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Valve is a very small company of dedicated engineers and developers. Im sure the folks making things work were busy, and the company just needed a marketing person to come in. Did I get the snark level right? XD Jokes aside, neat logo!

[–] LufyCZ 29 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure that's kinda exactly what happened though, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just that no one thought to add a logo because engineers don't care about shit like that (at least a lot of them don't)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nailed it! for real tho i need some marketing person to come in and eli5 about why i need a logo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

CI/CD stuff i guess (Translation: because others do). Not a marketing person tho.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

For me, the difference is how they go about doing it. The tracking Microsoft does is baked into the OS you use, for the sake of... well, not for seeing if people in your friends list also use Word or Teams.

Valve tracks a lot of data too, but also seems transparent about it. They show usercount, active players, it shows up for your Steam friends (if you want). And at the end of the day, they don't need to appeal to some shareholders. To me it feels like they track for the sake of their products, not for the sake of selling this data.

That said, I do think I'm pretty biased towards Valve in this, so I'm not sure how fair my view on it is

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot to criticize about Valve but... Tracking? You can't be serious. They publish everything they track, so it's not like it's a secret or anything. Microsoft, on the other hand, is comparable to Google with the amount of data they try to collect, and God only knows to what extent they're going since the telemetry is the operating system.

If you wanna criticize Valve, look into the state of TF2 (an actively monetized game, filled with AI aimbots that make official servers unplayable), or what they took away from players with Counter-Strike """""2""""".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I wish they would not ignore tf2

[–] UnfortunateShort 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That looks more like an atom tho. Should've spotted this after a year or two in development

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

what are they gonna do, draw 2 up quarks, a down quark, and gluons?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And Navi from The Legend of Zelda

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Nice! Looking quite good.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It'll be another 400 years before Valve makes the "this title has no icon" text not look like total ass, but finally somebody over there took a whole minute to grab an icon from steamgriddb dot com

[–] Harbinger01173430 7 points 10 months ago

That's not even a proton. That is an atom 🧐

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

They should have designed it off the HL2 energy ball