It all depends on the interest really. VP said, CDPR hired them explicitly to port The Witcher 2 for example. Same with Flying Wild Hog and Shadow Warrior. And if the porting company proposes it first, and gaming studio agrees, it's good all the same. So we'll have to wait and see what IO Interactive will do about this. I'm more interested in whether they'll consider not to be Steam exclusive anymore.

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Quoting: liamdaweIt can, but that won't happen often for Linux.

From the previous interview on GOL:

Q: When you want to get porting, do you reach out to developers, or do they reach out to you?
A: Both. I mostly get referrals, but I will reach out to developers of a game I'm a big fan of. That's one of the reasons I decided to start this thing, freedom to chose my work.

It's not so clear though what happens with HB first, and whether they reach out to developers as well, or the other way around. Are they even still doing it? In the early days HB were pushing this work. No idea what's going on today with it.

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We can ask Knockout Games (Aaron Melcher) if he is more often hired, or reaches out to developers with such proposals. I think the former.

Which reminds me. I wonder what happened to the Shadow Warrior 2. It was still supposedly coming, but there are no news.

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Quoting: liamdaweI don't think anybody hires Feral, Aspyr & VP directly. I think they reach out to developers and publishers to port their games.

Not necessarily. It can go in both directions.

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I'm interested in whether they'll start releasing their games DRM-free.

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I'm waiting for Vulkan update. Current version is barely playable (except on min settings).

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLSure, but GRACE engine from Two Worlds 2 is not a new engine - it's legacy.

The original one is, but didn't they make an enhanced edition or something? I'm sure though, they would have used 64-bit if they could do it easily.

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Only legacy engines might be locked into 32-bit. When making new engines today, there is absolutely no reason not to make it for 64-bit.

For example Beamdog for a long time were using 32-bit engine, inheriting various bits all the way from Infinity one. Only now they finished reworking their games to be 64-bit.

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Quoting: lucinosI can not understand why so many developers do that elementary mistake on linux. On linux developers should only support 64bit.

They made that mistake on Windows, and at the time when 32-bit Windows XP was still quite widespread. I suppose that's the reason. So I guess they just didn't rewrite the engine to support 64-bit proper.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWhen I try to install Wine-Staging or WineHQ-staging, the program ask me to delete
VLC
Libva-drm1
Libva-X11-1
va-driver-all

Why?

That can be your distro's mess. Try installing them from WineHQ repos.

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