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Any down side to adding a non steam game to a steam account? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by andrewta@lemmy.world to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Beyond usage tracking? Not much AFAIK.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Thank you

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days 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.