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.
All that does is creating a sort of shortcut link to the NSG in your library, and giving you the overlay. Shouldn’t be a problem to add or remove it
It is asking me where to install it. What would you suggest?
This is what I’m seeing (sorry for the potato quality)
Thank you
It’s a local only change specific to that install of steam, not your account. It essentially just lets you use steam services on non steam executables. It doesn’t even check the executable. You can be online with Microsoft word through steam if you want. You can run pirated windows games through proton via steam and I can guarantee you steam does not give one iota of a fuck.
Beyond usage tracking? Not much AFAIK.
Thank you
I don’t think steam tracks usage of non-steam games. Maybe playtime but iirc it doesn’t even do that.
I’ve ran non-Steam games through Steam for the joypad features, I seem to remember it tracked playtime but I might be wrong.
