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I was a subscriber 10-15 years ago, but I used steam/proton now, I wonder how large the market for something like codeweavers is in 2023?
by shinjitsu 3y ago
I was a subscriber 10-15 years ago, but I used steam/proton now, I wonder how large the market for something like codeweavers is in 2023?
- mattl 3y agoCodeweavers is paid by Valve to work on Proton
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoI suspect that even means that, courtesy of Proton, CodeWeavers now is used by and indirectly paid for by more people than ever:)
- mattl 3y agoI’m sure. I’ve been a paid user of Crossover for a while but I mainly use it on my Steam Deck now
- saghm 3y agoI'm also a previous Crossover customer who now uses proton (via lutris). I have to wonder if something like Crossover necessarily needs to exist in the long term; I suspect that part of the rationale for it was that they needed some sort of UI to present/sell the real work they did to make stuff run smoothly without needing users to do a bunch of manual Wine configuration. Obviously there are business caveats to tying yourself so closely to only one paying customer, but it doesn't seem like there's much of a technical need for the work they do to be tied to an in-house UI.
- mattl 3y agoI’m still paying for it and will keep doing so. I hope it never goes away.
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- Rebelgecko 3y agoThe majority of the work on Proton is actually being doing by Codeweavers. IIRC they even control the main github repo