It changes when people add reviews. The more people add reviews, quicker the medals change. Battlefield V ran great until EA decided to add kernel-level anticheat.
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Is 6 months of reviews not enough?
To be fair, ProtonDB needs to add something like "last 3 months status". Would not work for every game since some games barely have any reviews but would work for popular or relatively popular games. Otherwise, the medals are an overview from all time reviews, which can be misleading in this constantly changing situations.
User reports and automated regression testing. Go report it. The less people contrir, the more inaccurate it becomes. Keep in mind, ProtonDB, is not run by Valve.
Read the site notes: https://www.protondb.com/contribute
I figured as much, but I'm a bit at a loss since there's 6 months worth of reports that's borked and it still is reported as having a Gold medal
Short answer: Not enough bad reports, compared to older good ones.
Long answer: ProtonDB only takes the latest report of each reporter into the rating. Which means if old reporters come back with a negative report, it will shift the rating quicker, as if only new negative appear.
This game is in a situation where it got a lot of good reports, and in the last 6 months there were less than 80 negative. But the trending tier is already bronze. Probably needs just a few more reports to give it the last push. You can also see in API answer, that the confidence of the good rating is strong due to the many good reports.
There's contact info right there. There's also the GitHub pages to report back to the actual project.
ProtonDB is more about people finding fixes to problems. If you haven't tried all combinations of stuff, it's probably not worth registering a bug in GitHub because the project is more about generalized compatibility versus specific games. It's an open source project, so not based on specific games or game engines.
Maybe work through all the different proton engines first and get back to a working version before registering a complaint. Meaning: don't run on the bleeding edge, go back a few versions to when it worked for you.
The problem here is that about 6 months ago the game implemented an anti-cheat that blocks linux. Despite 6 months of reports that it flat out does not work, the game still has a gold medal.
Well if theie anti-cheat blocks Linux...I'm not sure what you expect the proton devs to do?
I'm not expecting a fix, I am just trying to understand what needs to happen for the game's grade to reflect the actual status of the title.
The game's functional state in Proton is one thing: does it start, support controls, and render without crashing.
That's "Gold" on ProtonDB.
This does not guarantee online play and anti-cheat bans by platform, because that's not what the project is about.
The project is simply about making games RUN. Online play is a separate thing.
The game works fine if you use a cracked version
Ok for the campaign but not really an option considering this is a primarily multiplayer game
But the game is playable, its just the anticheat that is broken, thats why it has a gold rating.