Idea of exclusives is dead. No one is going to make games only for one OS.

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Quoting: Boogiepop_PhantomIn all seriousness after your post, especially third part, I want to buy copy of Windows and support all corporations and capitalists around the world.

This is going way off-topic, but how did you come to such conclusion? Power of corporations is a grim alternative to power of dictators.

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Quoting: appetrosyanI don't care anymore. Steam doesn't care about Linux, no surprise that the statistics drop.

They do care, but unfortunately they can't do magic.

I'd say they failed pretty badly at pushing supported gaming consoles with Linux. Their effort of Steam machines was underwhelming. However their major contributions to Vulkan, Mesa and etc. are more than welcome.

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Quoting: ShmerlTheir upcoming game Chuchel [External Link] doesn't list Linux :(

There will be none. Amanita uses Adobe Air and Air for Linux is dead for long time.

From what I've red, they aren't using Adobe Air anymore. It's really junk. Not sure what they are using, but as I wrote above, Haxe could be a good option for them.

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Quoting: subSo they got finally rid of the awful Adobe AIR backend that dropped Linux support a long time ago?

From what I've heard, they are using their own engine now. Really, they can as well have picked Haxe, if they liked ActionScript.

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I'm more surprised that Linux is not widely used in China.

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Their upcoming game Chuchel [External Link] doesn't list Linux :(

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Quoting: linuxvangog

• GOG does not participate in process of developing CDPR games

Sure, but how is it worse than you not participating in development of other games, yet you might wrap them in Wine potentially? In this case CDPR are your sister company, so if CDPR wanted, they could provide you with more than your regular partners, i.e. for instance simply with sources of CDPR games.

And on a side note, for example Humble Bundle while being primarily a distributor, actually hired developers to make Linux ports. Something that GOG can ponder as well.

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You are seriously overestimating our resources here - Linux version of Witcher 3 would require literally hundreds, if not thousands of QA hours

Yeah, that may be. I'm not saying GOG should just do it randomly. It's something CDPR should help with I suppose, and allocate some resources to it. After all it was their promise which they blew, it's only fair for them to do something about it :)

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Even if we went for it, the end result would most likely offer significantly worse experience than the Windows version, and I am pretty sure nobody from Linux community wants that :)

It's not uncommon for wrappers to perform worse than native versions. That doesn't stop Feral and even CDPR themselves from using them no? TW2 itself is a wrapper using eON after all. So with some effort, Wine wrapped TW3 can have acceptable performance.

Quoting: linuxvangogIn the future, please direct CDPR games-related inquires to the studio directly

I did that already naturally, but they lately aren't communicating anything, let alone answering proposals :) I thought GOG team are just in a unique position to move this forward, but as you said, without some backing by CDPR, it's of course a resource draining task. But you can at least pass this idea around ;)

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Quoting: linuxvangogThis could be of course re-evaluated, if there was a huge demand for Wine-wrapped titles.

Though I agree with adamhm above as well, that when some game requires a lot of effort to run in Wine (too many tweaks), easy wrapper can be really welcome, especially by Linux newcomers.

Speaking of such wrapping. May be you can ponder this idea, or circulate it around. GOG team can help Wine developers with some remaining issues in The Witcher 3 (graphics and performance), and then wrap TW3 in Wine to make an official release, or may be even use Winelib (since you have access to the sources)? It wouldn't be any worse than how Feral are wrapping games. I'd consider it even better since you'll help a FOSS project in the process. And in addition it will redeem CDPR from the failure of TW3 Linux release and will uphold the failed promise.

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they meet, sadly, with poor reception, aka "meh, I could easily just run it with Wine myself"

This could be of course re-evaluated, if there was a huge demand for Wine-wrapped titles.

The upside can be convenience, but downside of Wine wrappers is that it would take you effort to keep Wine updated in it, since otherwise it will be fixed to certain version which you picked to wrap with. The benefit of decoupling Wine from the game are improvements in the Wine itself which will appear over time. Of course regressions can appear too, so it's a trade-off.

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