I see. I would suggest looking up other environment variables the Steam Deck sets on boot, but since this doesn’t look to be the case, my second suggestion would be hardware spoofing.

But even then, it just doesn’t make any sense. Why support only the Steam Deck specifically when it’s well known that Valve is updating SteamOS to make it work with other handheld devices like the Legion Go? Assuming they put some kind of hardware checking in the game initialization phase, why go through all this effort just to lose potential players?

Might be unrelated, but Marvel Rivals has a similar problem. If you just download it and play straight away, it won’t open; you have to set an initialization flag SteamDeck=1 to make it open (source)

Maybe it’s the same situation and this flag solves the problem, or maybe it’s something similar

Sorry if it sounded rude (and yeah, it was kind of a rant, sorry). What I’m trying to say is: these people do much worse things and don’t bother to say “sorry” publicly. The only way to make them behave is to fine them by a huge amount, just like Norway did.

I’m against the trained models being used for profit with no credit or cut given to the humans who trained it.

Sorry mate, hell’s gonna get cold before this happens. We’re talking about the biggest moth******ers on earth since always. Do you think Meta/[insert big tech company name here] will start to behave all of the sudden? These people literally KILL people everyday for a profit (looking at you Instagram).

The only way to get something from these scumbags is fining them something like 100k per hour, until they start respecting people’s privacy