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CD Projekt RED Considering The Witcher 3 For Linux

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: 4, Funny) by similar_name on Monday February 17 2014, @05:36AM

    by similar_name (71) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:36AM (#409)

    "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"

    There are 5 standards, but if there were a 6th one, we'd use it. xkcd [xkcd.com]

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  • (Score: 1) by githaron on Monday February 17 2014, @02:29PM

    by githaron (581) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:29PM (#731)

    I know this sounds oddly like the XKCD situation but I really do think that if Steam is successful, it would really start unifying some of the distros behind more common standards. Users will follow gaming. Even if game developers only officially support one Linux distro, it will encourage other distros make their environments compatible in order to attract more users (and the contributors those users bring). In the end, if Steam wins, we all win.