I was looking at the protondb for Battlefield V and it has a gold medal despite the fact that it has been literally unplayable (the game won’t even start) fpr 6 months now.
Are medals impossible to lose? Or do they run on some sort of manual verification? Is there some way to request a game to have it’s grade changed.
For reference, the change in this case was the addition of EA Anti-cheat, which breaks linux compatibility and borked a considerable number of games, even older ones.
I figured as much, but I’m a bit at a loss since there’s 6 months worth of reports that’s borked and it still is reported as having a Gold medal
Short answer: Not enough bad reports, compared to older good ones.
Long answer: ProtonDB only takes the latest report of each reporter into the rating. Which means if old reporters come back with a negative report, it will shift the rating quicker, as if only new negative appear.
This game is in a situation where it got a lot of good reports, and in the last 6 months there were less than 80 negative. But the trending tier is already bronze. Probably needs just a few more reports to give it the last push. You can also see in API answer, that the confidence of the good rating is strong due to the many good reports.
There’s contact info right there. There’s also the GitHub pages to report back to the actual project.
ProtonDB is more about people finding fixes to problems. If you haven’t tried all combinations of stuff, it’s probably not worth registering a bug in GitHub because the project is more about generalized compatibility versus specific games. It’s an open source project, so not based on specific games or game engines.
Maybe work through all the different proton engines first and get back to a working version before registering a complaint. Meaning: don’t run on the bleeding edge, go back a few versions to when it worked for you.
The problem here is that about 6 months ago the game implemented an anti-cheat that blocks linux. Despite 6 months of reports that it flat out does not work, the game still has a gold medal.
Well if there anti-cheat blocks Linux…I’m not sure what you expect the proton devs to do?
I’m not expecting a fix, I am just trying to understand what needs to happen for the game’s grade to reflect the actual status of the title.
The game’s functional state in Proton is one thing: does it start, support controls, and render without crashing.
That’s “Gold” on ProtonDB.
This does not guarantee online play and anti-cheat bans by platform, because that’s not what the project is about.
The project is simply about making games RUN. Online play is a separate thing.