If someone wants to publish on Steam, yeah, probably. But if Lepton works like Proton, the game doesn’t actually need to be distributed through Steam. For Proton, you can run basically any Windows executable file through Proton, even if you downloaded the file from somewhere other than Steam. I assume the plan is for Lepton to be able run basically any APK you throw at it regardless of where the APK came from. I just doubt that Lepton will bypass the Oculus DRM.
Cracked quest games exist already, there are side load redistributables which allow you to bypass meta authentication.
So sailing the high seas sounds like an option.
But ideally, publishers who want the additional distribution but can’t the arsed to make a new x86-64 version of their game for PCVR, could at least squirt out a new build that leaves off the Oculus DRM.
For the Steam Frame, x86-64 is run through a compatibility layer already anyway, so who’s to say that would be any better than the Lepton compatibility layer? At least for Frame users, obv.
If someone wants to publish on Steam, yeah, probably. But if Lepton works like Proton, the game doesn’t actually need to be distributed through Steam. For Proton, you can run basically any Windows executable file through Proton, even if you downloaded the file from somewhere other than Steam. I assume the plan is for Lepton to be able run basically any APK you throw at it regardless of where the APK came from. I just doubt that Lepton will bypass the Oculus DRM.
Cracked quest games exist already, there are side load redistributables which allow you to bypass meta authentication.
So sailing the high seas sounds like an option. But ideally, publishers who want the additional distribution but can’t the arsed to make a new x86-64 version of their game for PCVR, could at least squirt out a new build that leaves off the Oculus DRM.
For the Steam Frame, x86-64 is run through a compatibility layer already anyway, so who’s to say that would be any better than the Lepton compatibility layer? At least for Frame users, obv.