There are some who still believe its been confirmed for linux.
It wasn't.
I assume the ad was a mistake made somewhere at Steam.
There are some who still believe its been confirmed for linux.
Is there anymore on that mysterious steam ad? There are some who still believe its been confirmed for linux.
I went though the thread and didn't seem to find any mention of this, unless I accidently went over it.
Witcher 3 on Linux and Mac OSX is waste of money imo, possible sales are very small
Witcher 3 on Linux and Mac OSX is waste of money imo, possible sales are very small
GOG has a potential to sell 2000 copies to linux users; http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/t...itcher_3_and_your_other_games_to_linux_please
It's probably just too much workload to try to do it in parallel with the main development, and have to test and support on so many environments. Just speculating, but I would expect it to be a repeat of what happened with the other two games - that when it's been released, and patched as necessary, on the Windows platforms, they'll bring out the Mac and Linux versions.
Mac OSX.
A version of Witcher and Witcher 2 both exist for Mac OSX.
Witcher was released simply with a cider wrapper, [could have been wine], and released via Steam.
[There was much conversation about this on the forums back in the day, due to obvious reasons.]
Witcher 2, I do not recall if they actually did a port or a wrapper like previous.
It stands that one could apply a cider/wine wrapper to a legally purchased version of Witcher 3.
Though, there are obvious drawbacks to this, and a native port would be desired.
CDPR are hiring a network programmer for Cyberpunk 2077 with experience in Linux: http://en.cdprojektred.com/jobs/senior-network-programmer/
Not really an indicator of their Linux efforts since it can mean just server side, but still something interesting.
If they are serious about it, they'll hire people and make it native. And they said in the past they are interested but wait for SteamOS. Steam Machines are supposed to become available this year (announced on GDC2015 in March), so there will be some serious movement.
Valve is also going to be presenting glNext at GDC, the successor to OpenGL, which will compete with Directx12.
http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/80414-valve-present-glnext-high-performance-graphics-gdc/
http://www.pcgamer.com/opengl-successor-to-be-unveiled-at-gdc-session/