https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/5-years-later-valve-finally-gives-windows-compatibility-tool-proton-a-logo/
Can you believe it? Proton, the compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run on Steam Deck / Linux PCs didn't actually have a proper logo for over 5 years.
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!
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)
Nailed it! for real tho i need some marketing person to come in and eli5 about why i need a logo.
I do respect Valve and what they've done. However, the absolute hero worship of Valve here and on reddit is laughable. Valve tracks everything you play and do on their platform. Yet nobody bats an eye. Microsoft let's out a mouse fart and people on these forums rage like an out of control autist.
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
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""""".
That looks more like an atom tho. Should've spotted this after a year or two in development
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