They will sell Linux games on GOG soon, they have to port their biggest game to Linux then. Same thing Valve did with Dota 2.
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A Linux port of The Witcher 2 is in the works
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They will sell Linux games on GOG soon, they have to port their biggest game to Linux then. Same thing Valve did with Dota 2.
unapersson
Member
Bit late for that, Linux gaming has been around for two decades.
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
Interestingly, the SDL devs are working on SDL12_compat which will allow code written for SDL 1.2 to use the features present in SDL 2 (I'm assuming that the NWN linux version uses SDL as that is the norm). It might not be as simple as just dropping in an SDL2 shared lib but I imagine it will ease the pain a bit.
cookie-monster
Member
exactly what part of the GNU environment does a video game need?
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Doesn't matter. It's a profit to effort ratio.
OSX and Linux is a pretty small effort for a pretty small profit. Low risk, low time investment. No dealings with other companies, no additional physical products. Supporting Linux after the OSX port is already done? No brainer.
PS3 is a pretty huge effort for a potentially large profit. They'd have to ship a new physical product, they'd have to deal with Sony, it's be a long project with a substantially larger development cost and time. Could it pay off? Maybe. But they've got a lot on their plate already.
The two situations cannot be compared. A company cannot blindly chase after everything that might accrue a lot of sales.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
The kernal repository vi editor file system.
unapersson
Member
I would have thought most games are compiled against glibc and built with the gnu toolchain. Not that it means you have to stick gnu in front of the name of your game.
Now this is fantastic news. The Witcher 2 was the only reason I installed Windows on another partition (and removed after finishing it twice). I'm glad I won't have to do it again if I want to replay it + if they port REDengine to Linux, it will enable them to launch TW3 and C2077 on it too!
Maybe he's a BSD fanboy
Would be a silly BSD fanboy for not knowing about the Linux Compatibility layer, which tends to work amazingly well.
cookie-monster
Member
I'd hope they use the Intel compiler for performance.
MutonCommander
Banned
Sweet!
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
I was actually about to make a thread on this, it shouldn't be too hard to port the Mac version over.
This is most likely a port of the Mac version.
This is most likely a port of the Mac version.
Technosteve
Banned
Why don't they port this to PS4, it has a BSD kernel
BSD isn't linux(Though BSD has a Linux emulation layer, assuming Sony didn't remove or tamper with it.)
Sentenza
Member
I would gladly do without you, instead,
I still think it would make a lot of sense to port Witcher 2 to PS4 and Xbox One, especially with the TW3 delay. The Xbox 360 port was a miracle from what I heard but its visuals are probably significantly inferior to those of the PC original. I imagine PS4 and Xbox One should be able to handle TW2's maxed-out graphics settings, or close enough (excluding ubersampling obviously).
Moon_frogger
Member
Good news for you Linux gamers out there. Nice to see the platform slowly getting proper support
ahah, damn
I actually want Ms gaming to go away too...
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Really happy that Linux is getting solid support. I'll have another serving, thankyouverymuch!
As the < 1% that plays games on linux i'm very excited for more developers targeting the platform. I want to see bigger engines get ported though, what other games have used TW2 tech? Just CDProjectRED's games I think.
Still, yay linux.
Still, yay linux.
Boo AMD's new 14.14 drivers and flgrx XORG display issues
jim-jam bongs
Member
Can anyone here confirm? I noticed that the Linux depot was added to the app but it's flagged as "unused" which means it isn't live yet, however it's not entirely unheard of for SteamDB to lag behind every now and then (e.g. the app and sub pages for Bulletstorm and Cart Life are, as far as SteamDB is concerned, still up on the store).
Edit: And just as I say that:
Perhaps it did go public briefly but for now it's locked behind the vp_beta branch that was just added.
Edit edit:
Can anyone here confirm? I noticed that the Linux depot was added to the app but it's flagged as "unused" which means it isn't live yet, however it's not entirely unheard of for SteamDB to lag behind every now and then (e.g. the app and sub pages for Bulletstorm and Cart Life are, as far as SteamDB is concerned, still up on the store).
Edit: And just as I say that:
Perhaps it did go public briefly but for now it's locked behind the vp_beta branch that was just added.
Edit edit: And now the beta branch is gone. CDPR is in ihavenoideawhatimdoing.jpg mode at the moment.
Oh well
At least we know Beta isn't far away.
MutonCommander
Banned
Man, I can't wait to ditch Windows forever. As soon as Linux adoption reaches critical mass it's bye bye Microsoft.
UnrealEck
Member
Same here. I'm particularly looking forward to Steam OS though. I want a barebones gaming OS with a web browser. If I ever want to try anything else not on Linux I can always fire up Windows.
Linux probably has everything you need.
UnrealEck
Member
Compatibility with a games library is the only real issue stopping me. I really hope developers pick up on OpenGL for their games but with this DX12 announcement the future's unclear.
NekoFever
Member
Porting to Mac and Linux has value to them beyond sales, as it builds experience with OpenGL and gets the engine running on it, which is important now that everything that isn't Windows or Xbox uses it. Plus there are no costs associated with selling those versions.
Meanwhile a PS3 port would require porting to an esoteric architecture that isn't used anywhere else and would have the costs of publishing a console game and getting it through Sony's certification on top of that.
Mantle is supposed to be platform agnostic and it was also picked by Cryengine right now. Not sure of Unreal 3 picked it up, but they also promised Linux support (So, OpenGL).
RED also promised Linux support in their new engine.
The future looks bright. Source 2 will of course also be Linux native.
Maybe he's a BSD fanboy
OS/2 Warp 4 Lyfe!
Frank Jaeger
Member
Good excuse to keep my linux boot running more than usual!
That's correct. CD Projekt RED plans to licence the REDengine so it makes more sense to give it a proper multiplatform support for the future and skip previous console generations.
FrozenCell
Member
great news
Turin Turambar
Member
Because Linux is still a pc with a x86 cpu and PS3 isn't and has a weird as hell Cell.
Sentenza
Member
Also, a Linux port makes the game essentially Android-ready few years down the line, while a PS3 port doesn't.
That, plus Steam Machines, I guess.
FrozenCell
Member
CurlySaysX
Banned
The game just popped up in my list of Linux games.
If you own the game you can download it, but apparently there is no executable so you can't actually launch it.
If you own the game you can download it, but apparently there is no executable so you can't actually launch it.
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
Yeah its in my list as well.
rockmanjoe
Member
Ooh, I only have the game on GOG. I guess I'll have to wait until they officially launch Linux support in a few months.