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Any down side to adding a non steam game to a steam account? (self.linuxmint)

submitted 4 weeks ago by andrewta to c/[email protected]

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Is there any side effect of adding it to steam as a non steam game?

For example on the windows side would I now need to do the same? I am going to be adding (or plan to add) guild wars 2 to steam as a non steam game in Linux. Will i have to do the same in windows? Are there any other down sides that I should be aware of?

I'll be running guild wars 2 through proton under steam.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

All that does is creating a sort of shortcut link to the NSG in your library, and giving you the overlay. Shouldn't be a problem to add or remove it

[–] andrewta 2 points 4 weeks ago

It is asking me where to install it. What would you suggest?

This is what I’m seeing (sorry for the potato quality)

[–] andrewta 1 points 4 weeks ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Beyond usage tracking? Not much AFAIK.

[–] andrewta 1 points 4 weeks ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think steam tracks usage of non-steam games. Maybe playtime but iirc it doesn't even do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I've ran non-Steam games through Steam for the joypad features, I seem to remember it tracked playtime but I might be wrong.