Here's an interesting article about steam verification :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/...y-hit-for-steam-deck-as-verified-or-playable/
So... 2000 verified / playable games is great, but compared to the total catalog there's still a huge amount of uncertainty.
After a Google search i found that streams catalog has now just over 60'000 games, and 8 to 10'000 coming each year. (Https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/total-games)
Edit : the link to the catalog is here, and currently at 63'557 games: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998
So with the program having tested about 3'000 games now in just over a month (iirc... This I'm not sure of) , it would take about 20 months to complete the current catalog... And then some more months for what releases now. So in the area of two years (unless someone corrects my rough math).
Edit: crap... I'm off by a whole month: verification started near the end of January : https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-games-are-finally-starting-to-get-their-deck-verified-status/
So with 3000 in two months, that's actually 21 times two months, so 42 months, so 3.75 years).
The caveat is of course that tests aren't done alphabetically but (roughly?) by popularity, so Street fighter 4 can expect to be rated before proverbial cashgrab simulator 3. But does that mean Valve will at one point pull the plug on this program and instead focus on improving the haste work of the current program (there had been criticism, both that verified games don't always perform perfect, and unsupported games do).
What do you think?
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/...y-hit-for-steam-deck-as-verified-or-playable/
So... 2000 verified / playable games is great, but compared to the total catalog there's still a huge amount of uncertainty.
After a Google search i found that streams catalog has now just over 60'000 games, and 8 to 10'000 coming each year. (Https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/total-games)
Edit : the link to the catalog is here, and currently at 63'557 games: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998
So with the program having tested about 3'000 games now in just over a month (iirc... This I'm not sure of) , it would take about 20 months to complete the current catalog... And then some more months for what releases now. So in the area of two years (unless someone corrects my rough math).
Edit: crap... I'm off by a whole month: verification started near the end of January : https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-games-are-finally-starting-to-get-their-deck-verified-status/
So with 3000 in two months, that's actually 21 times two months, so 42 months, so 3.75 years).
The caveat is of course that tests aren't done alphabetically but (roughly?) by popularity, so Street fighter 4 can expect to be rated before proverbial cashgrab simulator 3. But does that mean Valve will at one point pull the plug on this program and instead focus on improving the haste work of the current program (there had been criticism, both that verified games don't always perform perfect, and unsupported games do).
What do you think?
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