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.

    • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

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

      • DrDystopia
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        1 month ago

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