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posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 16 2014, @11:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the linux-gamers-need-love-too dept.

ticho writes:

"Followers of the Penguin, Marcin Iwiński, one of the founders of CD Projekt RED, has spoken out about why the developer of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077 has not yet shown any support towards Linux.

Marcin says: "You know, one of the reasons we have not released The Witcher on Linux is that we most probably have to address five different versions of Linux and this is always terrible to support the quality of the games afterwards. The patches, the updates, and everything. If Steam will deliver a constant Linux environment, call it SteamOS or anything like that, we would love to have our games there because, you know, the more people play our games, the better for us."

Entire podcast (in MP3 form) here."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by combatserver on Monday February 17 2014, @12:55AM

    by combatserver (38) on Monday February 17 2014, @12:55AM (#359)

    "That really doesnt sound like an interest in supporting linux to me."

    To me, it sounds more like an attempt to drive interest in Steam-on-Linux. Article title should read "CD Projekt RED Considered The Witcher 3 For Linux--Requires Steam Integration".

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  • (Score: 1) by Jameso_ on Monday February 17 2014, @08:53AM

    by Jameso_ (252) on Monday February 17 2014, @08:53AM (#511)

    And what's so bad about that?

    Full disclosure: I like Steam. I understand if people don't, but I think it's beside the point here. Valve's push for Linux support is really getting the attention of hardware vendors, and compelling them to get their driver story together. This can only benefit Linux in the long term, and thereby everyone who uses it, regardless of their opinion of steam.

    I desperately want to excise Microsoft from my life, and anything that increases the volume and variety of software I can choose to run (or not run) on Linux is a good thing. Windows 8 was the final straw, and I'm done. The more attention Linux receives, the more people will use it, and the more people use it, the more attention it will receive. Would it be better if there were a Steam-independent version as well? Absolutely. But at least Steam versions will allow people to run it on Linux at all, and that's a huge win as far as I'm concerned.

    • (Score: 1) by CoolHand on Monday February 17 2014, @01:09PM

      by CoolHand (438) on Monday February 17 2014, @01:09PM (#655) Journal
      I'm not keen on all aspects of Steam. But, thus far at least, Valve does not seem to be uber-evil, as far as corporate overlords go, so for now I'm content to use them (let them use me), to advance gaming on Linux, so that I can have the games I'd like. Also, if their little plan comes to fruition, it will also kill off nasty Sony and MS console gaming, which doesn't suck.

      Oh, yeah, sometimes they also have some really nice sales... :)

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