Notices by Lyrenhex (lyrenhex@social.lyrenhex.com)

@gamingonlinux @RiQuY thinking about it, though, this would make it simpler for 'normies', I think?

right now, we have inconsistency between whether 'Playable' means the entire game is playable or just a single mode of it. whichever of those is 'correct' is irrelevant for as long as the specification is ambiguous enough to allow it to happen. instead, you have to refer to 3rd-party testing - a la ProtonDB - to work out if GTA V supports Online...

(aside: saying that Playable requires both modes to be functional is also not ideal rn: some people won't want to play Online, so it's giving them more work to identify if it's actually non-functional or if it's good enough for them to play.)

A 'Partially Playable' (or equiv. wording) category would solve the ambiguity ('Playable' must hence be completely functional), and make this simpler: GTA V is Partially Playable (which part should be noted in the support modal).

Because some people will not want to play GTA Online and would be fine with that. For others, no GTA Online is a dealbreaker and being advertised as 'Playable' would feel like a scam.

@gamingonlinux I still don't understand why Valve doesn't have a 'Partially Playable' rating for stuff like this.

the gulf between "doesn't work at all" (implied by 'Unsupported') and "all modes of the game work" is vast.

that and their docs don't actually specify 'fully functional' for Playable (it's implied by the definition of Verified and their examples of 'Playable' issues), tbf, which would lead to this kind of inconsistency from interpretation.