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With all the hoo-ha about The Witcher 3 and the replies GOG have given (first being it was never planned, second being they don't know), I finally have an answer from the actual developer of The Witcher 3.

Yeah, I know, I'm writing about this again after saying I probably wouldn't, "please make it stop" and all that.

This is the first time CDPR have ever actually communicated with me directly.

QuoteHey Liam,

Thanks for getting in touch.

I'm afraid we have nothing to communicate about this at this point in time.

Best,
Robert

I replied right after this, and immediately got an out of the office auto-reply. Hmmm.

There you go, an official comment from the developer of The Witcher 3. It clears up nothing, it's a flat-out denial to answer my basic and easy to understand questions.

It does raise the question though: why reply at all when you're essentially saying nothing?

I don't think we will ever truly know what happened, I expect no one to talk about it as I imagine both Valve and CDPR want this snafu buried.

I will just leave this here again for posterity, to remind myself and you to never pre-order based on developer promises, not even a big banner on Steam itself:
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Shmerl Sep 8, 2016
Quoting: sbolokanovI saw you in the W3 wine bug thread some time ago, what is the state currently?

Thanks to some helpful folks, I got a GOG key to test it in Wine. It's unplayable now. If you overcome the 32GB virtual heap limit bug, the most you can get to is the initial menu:




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Yvonneka Sep 8, 2016
I don't understand why this is so difficult to decipher. Basically they're saying.. Maybe well get around to it and maybe not. They don't want to say yes in case they don't and don't want to say no... Just in case they will. By not saying anything they don't commit themselves to anything and leave their options open. This seems to be the way they're operating with everything... Not saying when games will be released... What they will be about.. what the specs will be..etc. Think they learned their lesson early on.
Spud13y Sep 8, 2016
At least the developer replied. I would rather a reply that gives no definite answer than nothing at all.
wojtek88 Sep 8, 2016
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: sbolokanovI saw you in the W3 wine bug thread some time ago, what is the state currently?

Thanks to some helpful folks, I got a GOG key to test it in Wine. It's unplayable now. If you overcome the 32GB virtual heap limit bug, the most you can get to is the initial menu:

Is it correctly animated?
Shmerl Sep 8, 2016
Quoting: wojtek88Is it correctly animated?

I'm not sure what is considered correct there (since I have nothing to compare to), but it is animated, yes. You can see sparks flying from the fire, branches moved by the wind and etc. There are no intro videos however or anything like that when you open the game, and some suggested they should be before the main menu screen.


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Shmerl Sep 9, 2016
Quoting: Guestbut somehow I feel the chances of that are extremely slim since we've heard them say before that they have no plans to support linux in witcher 3)

They said exactly the opposite actually (that they planned to make it for Linux), but they never managed to fulfill those plans so far.


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TheGZeus Sep 9, 2016
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: TheGZeusMaybe VP wrote a cheque they couldn't cash.

I doubt it. They got tons of money from TW3 sales.
it's a metaphor, and I said VP.
I'm saying maybe VP said the could handle it for them, and couldn't.
TheGZeus Sep 9, 2016
Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerOkay... can we have eON-port of at least The Witcher 1?
GOG. PlayOnLinux. Works. Sigh in resignation and move on.
TheGZeus Sep 9, 2016
Considering this and all versions of the game for PS4 (digital, physical, GOTY etc) have incompatible save data to each other, I get the distinct impression that they are very hasty when planning out technical issues.

I feel cheated because GOTY is cheaper than both DLCs on their own, and all my progress is moot.
Sold the game. Might eventually grab it again.
Zelox Sep 9, 2016
Atlest you got an answer, its been a week and no answer from GoG or CDPR.
Guess I have to give it another go next week :P.
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