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Quoting: ShmerlI'd say damage to their reputation for not keeping their word is worse, than damage from some angry jerks who attacked initially poor Linux port.

I still want to see Witcher 1 & 3 on Linux, so if anyone from CDProjekt is watching, ignore the morons & sort out the ports so WE can buy them.

I'm somewhat surprised, this wishlist [External Link] only got 10,400+ votes. There should be way more interested Linux gamers. Then you can show to CDPR - "See? A lot of people want it.".

And this one [External Link] needs a big boost too.

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Quoting: MaCroX95So we get a great promise of a game and than because of a few personal insults from our trolls make them cancel them? How is that not treting our community as garbage...

No, I'm not saying any of this is a valid reason for cancelling their Linux efforts. All I'm saying that such attacks are unacceptable.

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Quoting: MohandevirI always wondered why VP didn't released TW2 Linux as an open beta? Wouldn't it have "lessened" the backlash?

I think after VP realized there is a lot more work to do, they started releasing it as beta before major milestones.

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Quoting: MaCroX95And there is nothing wrong in attacking a bad product. If we're 2% of the market it still doesn't mean that we need to be treated like gatbage and yet be blamed for not accepting the poor port that we paid money for. It's really childish of them how they try to actually make us feel bad about ourselves.

First of all, we weren't treated like garbage. Developers actually worked on fixing bugs. And secondly, no way it justifies any attacks. Provide constructive criticism, not hatred.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkIf they're going to turn tail & run because of a few small minded people then they might as well shut up shop altogether as it's only going to get much worse now thanks to this.

I'd say damage to their reputation for not keeping their word is worse, than damage from some angry jerks who attacked initially poor Linux port.

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Quoting: rkfgLack of communication is what kills any trust and respect, not bugs and other issues. Sadly, still many don't get it, they ignore people instead of at least saying them "we're aware of that/working on it/looking for a fix/getting better with your platform of choice/well, at least weather is nice and you're alive/oh come on gtfo already". Anything would do better than ignorance and silence. Literally anything.

Lack of communication is the primary approach of legacy publishers. I feel CDPR fell into that trap, and adopted same approach to communication.

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Quoting: GuestI wasn't lead on Witcher 2... can't take that credit :)
I provide a lot of in house Linux support, did some of the initial work to bring eON over from the Mac to Linux, established the tools used etc etc.

As was seen at the time, I offered my own time to help people who were having problems with the port, with every intention of feeding back help into patches at VP. Instead I was roasted alive and got sent (to my work and personal email accounts, and my personal Facebook account, Steam account etc) tons of very hateful mail, telling me/my family to go and die, and such like.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm sorry to hear that you got targeted by angry Linux users.

However I find that story about falling stock value from initially bad release of the TW2 Linux version quite weird. I doubt that was the reason behind CDPR's abandonment of their Linux efforts. Did they actually work with VP in regards to TW3? Or just considered it?

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Quoting: OLucasZanellaIn some not much older article it was said a developer would stop with the Linux support of his game because of the lots of bug reports Linux users where sending. If we collectively stopped sending in bug reports he wouldn't have cancelled, but should we have done that? Of course no.

There is a difference between bug reports, and attacks on developers. The former help fixing issues, the later don't, and do quite the opposite.

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Quoting: EhvisThis is a pretty lame excuse. Are they now not going to make a new Windows game because of the backlash from the Windows users at release of TW3? That was orders of magnitude worse. It's the internet. If you can't stand foul language, better move into a cave.

They did react, and I think quite badly. They stopped all communication with the community. Remember what happened with that "downgrade"? During some early E3 presentations, they showed a great looking demo of TW3, and then the final version was changed quite a bit visually (lighting and aesthetics wise). A lot viewed that as a "downgrade" (even though it's somewhat moot), and lashed out angrily at developers.

In result, CDPR stopped communicating anything altogether. I.e. consider zero information they released about their work in progress on Cyberpunk 2077. I personally don't view it as a good strategy (better communicate early and explain reasons like crowdfunded projects do), but I can understand at least why the did that.

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Quoting: liamdaweI'm sure plenty of others saw the type of shit they had to deal with too.

May be try contacting CDPR for any comment on this topic. But I suspect they'll just decline to comment.

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