Why is there still no Steam Deck support?

[Get To The Choppa]

It is the most requested game on a Steam Deck I couldn't give less crap about Linux/SteamOS (I prefer Windows) but I don't get the decision behind not wanting to gain approx. new 25,000 concurrent players?

[Amogus]

1. i will bet you anything that this game will not get 25,000 players from steam deck support

2. it is on the anti cheat to make it work since that has been what is holding up a lot of games from being on the steam deck

[Cath]

Originally posted by  Maximum Glove Gaming :

1. i will bet you anything that this game will not get 25,000 players from steam deck support

2. it is on the anti cheat to make it work since that has been what is holding up a lot of games from being on the steam deck

It's up to the developers of the game to enable proton support in EAC for their game. EAC already has support for proton- it's just up to Ubisoft to enable that support. Either way, you're not wrong that Steam Deck wouldn't bring a 25k concurrent to the player count.

[Digital]

Playing Siege with thumbsticks on a Steamdeck whilst everyone else is using mouse and keyboard? yeah I don't see that working out all too well.

[gigglemyblorp]

No one wants a pc player in a controller on there team, thats why. There is a reason seige doesn't have crossplay

[Get To The Choppa]

Originally posted by Cowboy_yehaw:

No one wants a pc player in a controller on there team, thats why. There is a reason seige doesn't have crossplay

It's a PC you can play with keyboard and mouse. Right now im typing this from a keyboard and mouse plugged in takes 15 seconds to set up

[Get To The Choppa]

Originally posted by Digital:

Playing Siege with thumbsticks on a Steamdeck whilst everyone else is using mouse and keyboard? yeah I don't see that working out all too well.

^

[Get To The Choppa]

Originally posted by  Maximum Glove Gaming :

1. i will bet you anything that this game will not get 25,000 players from steam deck support

2. it is on the anti cheat to make it work since that has been what is holding up a lot of games from being on the steam deck

Not from Steam Deck alone but Linux as a whole. I think 25,000 is a realistic number over the span of a month or so

[Kinyajuu]

Originally posted by Taft:

Originally posted by  Maximum Glove Gaming :

1. i will bet you anything that this game will not get 25,000 players from steam deck support

2. it is on the anti cheat to make it work since that has been what is holding up a lot of games from being on the steam deck

It's up to the developers of the game to enable proton support in EAC for their game. EAC already has support for proton- it's just up to Ubisoft to enable that support. Either way, you're not wrong that Steam Deck wouldn't bring a 25k concurrent to the player count.

Maybe not 25k but honestly, who knows? If I could play on my steam deck I would probably go back to buying the season passes again. But as it stands now, I don't have the time to sit in my office and play this when I could be chilling with my wife on the patio while playing it on handheld. Handheld gaming is starting to blow up, it would probably be in their best interests to be one of the companies that were on board with it from the start. So maybe not more players, but I feel more players would make this their hobby game if they could play it on the go.

[Kinyajuu]

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

Originally posted by Cowboy_yehaw:

No one wants a pc player in a controller on there team, thats why. There is a reason seige doesn't have crossplay

It's a PC you can play with keyboard and mouse. Right now im typing this from a keyboard and mouse plugged in takes 15 seconds to set up

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

Originally posted by Digital:

Playing Siege with thumbsticks on a Steamdeck whilst everyone else is using mouse and keyboard? yeah I don't see that working out all too well.

^

But very few would play it with just the thumbsticks, don't underestimate the touch pad and gyro methods of aiming. High thumbstick sens, tilt for detailed aim, it works better than you might think. Takes a TON of getting used to though. I just feel like PC Master race extends to the steam deck considering the options for peripheral inputs.

[Amogus]

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

Originally posted by  Maximum Glove Gaming :

1. i will bet you anything that this game will not get 25,000 players from steam deck support

2. it is on the anti cheat to make it work since that has been what is holding up a lot of games from being on the steam deck

Not from Steam Deck alone but Linux as a whole. I think 25,000 is a realistic number over the span of a month or so

steam hardware survey

windows : 96.21%
mac : 1.84%
linux : 1.96%

if 96% of the steam users makes up the 60k maximum concurrent players, tell me how 2% of the steam users will make 25k

[Get To The Choppa]

Originally posted by Kinyajuu:

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

It's a PC you can play with keyboard and mouse. Right now im typing this from a keyboard and mouse plugged in takes 15 seconds to set up

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

^

But very few would play it with just the thumbsticks, don't underestimate the touch pad and gyro methods of aiming. High thumbstick sens, tilt for detailed aim, it works better than you might think. Takes a TON of getting used to though. I just feel like PC Master race extends to the steam deck considering the options for peripheral inputs.

I'll probably get team killed every round but I'll give it a shot lol

[Get To The Choppa]

Originally posted by  Maximum Glove Gaming :

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

Not from Steam Deck alone but Linux as a whole. I think 25,000 is a realistic number over the span of a month or so

steam hardware survey

windows : 96.21%
mac : 1.84%
linux : 1.96%

if 96% of the steam users makes up the 60k maximum concurrent players, tell me how 2% of the steam users will make 25k

Steam Deck and Linux being 2% that still means millions and millions of potential players. If a certain game is popular on Linux and from what we know Rainbow Siege is I don't see why they couldn't gain such amount of players in a month.

[Amogus]

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

Originally posted by  Maximum Glove Gaming :

steam hardware survey

windows : 96.21%
mac : 1.84%
linux : 1.96%

if 96% of the steam users makes up the 60k maximum concurrent players, tell me how 2% of the steam users will make 25k

Steam Deck and Linux being 2% that still means millions and millions of potential players. If a certain game is popular on Linux and from what we know Rainbow Siege is I don't see why they couldn't gain such amount of players in a month.

according to statistic from 2021, the total amount of registered accounts is 120 million

if we assume that all 100% of those accounts are active and none are inactive for reasons (banned cheater account, stopped using steam, etc.), then that is 2.4 million potential linux players.

according to steamdb estimates, 18-32 million people own the game on steam, so we can lower that number to 88-102 million players. with that new count, we have 1.8-2 million new players.

these are just numbers and not reality. as i have said, this is assuming that all 100% of registered accounts are actually active and that every single linux player will play this game if there is linux support. since we know this is not the case and the game is not new, there will be even lower odds of gaining many new players with linux support

it is not worth the effort. with luck, 1% of the linux users (2 million) will buy the game which is only 20 thousand. keep in mind that this is only game ownership and not concurrent players. there will be players that refund or stop playing the game, so that number is even smaller.

[burntheworld27]

Originally posted by 🌸BI-WINNING 🌸:

It is the most requested game on a Steam Deck I couldn't give less crap about Linux/SteamOS (I prefer Windows) but I don't get the decision behind not wanting to gain approx. new 25,000 concurrent players?

anticheat 3rd party software is difficult to get on the deck. nice name lmao

[WreckerALeX]

Just install Windows on launch day like me, life is too short and it may never come (Deck is over a year old already)