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.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    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

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      4 months ago

      It is asking me where to install it. What would you suggest?

      This is what I’m seeing (sorry for the potato quality)

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      4 months ago

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

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        I’ve ran non-Steam games through Steam for the joypad features, I seem to remember it tracked playtime but I might be wrong.