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Please don't spread misinformation Valve does not put in effort, they paid people to make Proton, it's the community that makes the code NOT VALVE. A simple github chart can tell you everything.
They directly hired people to work on it... how else would you describe "putting efforts into" when a company does it?
Please don't credit me for writing this comment. It was my hands I employed that did the typing
You can't say Mcdonald's CEO put effort in his work because he hired people to make the food. See how dumb that sounds.
It sounds dumb because no one's saying that, you just made it up. That would be like if someone was directly crediting Gabe Newell with, idk, CS:GO battlepass sales or something. That's not what anyone's saying.
A better comparison would be crediting McDonalds as a company for their work in the handheld apple pie space. Did they outsource the work? Maybe. Did they come up with the recipe themselves? Probably not. But without McDonald's involvement, we wouldn't be able to enjoy hot, fresh, fruit-filled pastries with our Big Macs, and our fast food dessert choices are better for it. See? Much less dumb.
No it still sounds dumb, we know they were built by machines and were sold in packs. You lack basic understand in how certain things work. Game development also applies, Github is still the number one source for the information on Proton Contributors, GitHub data doesn't lie, Valve employees do nothing.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/graphs/contributors
So paying someone to do something doesnt give you any credit? How does companies work then. Please don't credit any company for anything, they just paid people who put in the work? Who are you kidding?