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To my knowledge this game was never advertised as a game to play on the Steam Deck officially.

If you choose to play a game on an unsupported platform, that is your problem and not theirs.

In reality it's Valve's problem since they have pushed Linux on gamers without proper education that it is not in fact an official platform for any of these games and could break at any time.

Now if they advertised this game as playable on Steam Deck, sure! But most games don't and for good reason.

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The game is marked as Deck Verified by Valve [1], which means someone at Valve will have tested it. More about how a game is marked as Deck Verified [2]

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446780/MONSTER_HUNTER_RI... [2] https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat

I could have sworn that deck verified was fully automated and I don't see clarification either way there, but regardless.

Your point emphasizes that this is Valve's problem and not the publishers. Valve is pushing an unsupported platform for games by saying it's "verified" when an update could easily break that (as evidence here). A developer is not likely to target an unsupported platform for testing.

Especially given:

"If you take no action, after approximately a week your review results will automatically be published and show up on your game detail page".

So that checkbox being on the Store page is not confirmation from the developer for supporting the platform.

Capcom have acknowledged that they will provide a hotfix in the near future to fix the issue [1]. Anecdotally, the newest Proton Experimental fixes the problem for me on my Steam Deck.

[1] https://x.com/monsterhunter/status/1749390124385771852?s=20

In the Netherlands at least you can reasonably assume it is compatible with your device when it says "Deck Verified" and can get either a fix or a refund within a reasonable amount of time (say, 2 weeks) from the place of purchase, I imagine similar countries have similar laws. So from such countries a letter or two should do the trick, but of course only a small percent of people who bothered reading the law know that and they probably don't teach law in middle school.

The official MH Twitter page did recently shout out MHW as being playable on Steam Deck. Not sure if they did it for Rise but I wouldn't be surprised.

They also do acknowledge it being broken and their looking into it so it wasn't totally intentional.

Still shitty and completely unnecessary. Really Rise is old enough at this point that DRM should be removed, not added.

I agree on the DRM side, this is more based on the situation of Linux gaming. Other games have broken with a simple update that had nothing to do with DRM.

I find it absurd to expect support on an unsupported platform. I put that particular blame on Valve. But for some reason we are perfectly fine with Valve not properly educating their customers (which for the record I am one, I love my Steam Deck but I also understand what's going on and the realities of gaming on Linux) and putting the blame on developers instead.

I do find it interesting that Twitter said it, but their website makes no mention of it: https://www.monsterhunter.com/rise-xwp/en-us/

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