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So, it looks like The Witcher 3 will really be coming to Linux thanks to SteamOS, but will you be buying it?

This is the image that showed up on Steam's home-page:
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I am really hoping it will be a native port since the eON technology isn't for me up to scratch at all, but maybe in future it will be who knows. They have until February 2015 to sort out the Linux version, so one would hope it will be a decent port regardless of the tech used to bring it to our platform.

If it is a real port it will blow pretty much any other action+rpg type game we have right now away.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game, set in a graphically stunning fantasy universe, full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher, you play as Geralt of Rivia, one of a dying caste of monster hunters, and embark on an epic journey in a war-ravaged world that will inevitably lead you to confront a foe darker than anything humanity has faced so far—the Wild Hunt.

This is great news to see CD PROJEKT RED take notice of Linux. This news follows on from the fact that GOG.com's new game client will eventually support Linux too.

UPDATE: It seems someone flipped a switch too early and it may not even happen. That's quite a big derp someone did. See our comments for more info. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Anonymous 7 Jun 2014
I bought the 2nd, got terrible performance (I can run Metro LL in 1080p 60FPS). So yeah, eON can suck my sticky balls. Will never, ever buy anything eON shit wreck again.
Anonymous 7 Jun 2014
Liam, could you please contact them and try to get them to clarify whether this will be a native port? I don't think many of us are in a hurry to preorder after the Witcher 2 debacle.
GoCorinthians 7 Jun 2014
Pre-ordered it! Dont care if it will be a wrapper.

Buy a decent PC, Im running at maxsettings(ubber of).
DrMcCoy 7 Jun 2014
Buy a decent PC

Yes, yes, I'm sure you'd like to give us each $3000 for a system with an i7-5960X and a Titan.
Lapinopl 7 Jun 2014
I think its gonna be native since witcher 3 is coning to ps4 ad well. Second one was only on win and x360 , so they wrapped it for small Mac/Linux crowd who won't make too much noise among gaming community. But they had to actually get it running on ps4 API so might as well get opengl version. Only speculation tho, time will show.
Anonymous 7 Jun 2014
Pre-ordered it! Dont care if it will be a wrapper.

Buy a decent PC, Im running at maxsettings(ubber of).

Exactly what didnt you understand? I can run Metro LL in full HD at maximum settings with 60FPS, yet the Witcher 2 piece of crap runs at like 10 FPS on Lowest. Its not really a matter of having a decent computer, its a matter of having a quantum super-computer or not. Either you get a quantum computer OR they buy a book on OpenGL programming.
SXX 7 Jun 2014
Also the eON wrapper is still under development for Linux, if you want to help improve it for future eON ports, then help the devs.
No, thanks. I better go pray their company go bankrupt.

I doubt there is something worse than closed source proprietary Wine that not likely will share their codebase with mainline. More of proprietary wrappers it's not something Linux need for sure.
Anonymous 7 Jun 2014
Pre-ordered it! Dont care if it will be a wrapper.

Buy a decent PC, Im running at maxsettings(ubber of).

that unfortunately doesn't fly in w2 case. i read how people with much beefier machines can't pass 10fps.

i'm running it on 9800gt at 720p (my tv) without single problem and no frame drops whatsoever. and to make it even worse, friend is running it without problems on old amd and nvidia 520. then 3rd friend has 780gtx and i7, while his game is completely unplayable even at same settings as me. go figure

it can help if you try reading the git issues users posted, but if you're unlucky probably all you can do is wait for update. still, at least developers are pretty active in communication in that git
FutureSuture 7 Jun 2014
This "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is sooooo old so it made sense to use a wrapper lol" mantra needs to die post haste. Trine and Limbo, both games that already exist on Linux (the former natively, the latter wrapped through Wine), are much older than The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and are getting new, native Linux clients this year, and the developer teams behind them are much, much smaller and therefore much less financially capable.
Berillions 7 Jun 2014
@FutureSuture : Trine and TW2 are not the same thing ...
It's more difficult to port natively TW2 than Trine. TW2 = AAA, Trine = Indies.
FutureSuture 7 Jun 2014
Strange thing. People hope to get on Linux better port, than on Mac.
Nobody don`t want to know about Mac ports. But Linux get port from Metro last ligth of same quality as Mac port. Witcher 2 get equal ports for Mac and Linux.
So if game get bad port on Mac, don`t expect to get good port on Linux because games get Mac os port first.
Metro: Last Light Redux, however, is only coming out for Linux and Windows so the Linux version will not be held back by the Mac OS version this time. Metro 2033 Redux is only coming out for Linux and Windows as well.
GoCorinthians 7 Jun 2014
Pre-ordered it! Dont care if it will be a wrapper.

Buy a decent PC, Im running at maxsettings(ubber of).
that unfortunately doesn't fly in w2 case. i read how people with much beefier machines can't pass 10fps.

i'm running it on 9800gt at 720p (my tv) without single problem and no frame drops whatsoever. and to make it even worse, friend is running it without problems on old amd and nvidia 520. then 3rd friend has 780gtx and i7, while his game is completely unplayable even at same settings as me. go figure

it can help if you try reading the git issues users posted, but if you're unlucky probably all you can do is wait for update. still, at least developers are pretty active in communication in that git
beefier machines = GT 210 lol. pff

"3rd friend has 780gtx and i7" pff, GTX 770 4GB(Windforce) can run it at 40FPS maxsettings/1080p under Eon. In windows I can even surpass 51FPS(ubber on)

Kubuntu User!
FutureSuture 7 Jun 2014
@FutureSuture : Trine and TW2 are not the same thing ...
It's more difficult to port natively TW2 than Trine. TW2 = AAA, Trine = Indies.
I already tackled that.
omer666 7 Jun 2014
The fact is, I'm going to be a damn stupid consumer on this one, and as I fear that it may run like the 2nd instalment on my Linux rig, I won't buy it until problems are actually fixed.

Oh and the "buy a decent PC" is the very reason why I'm upset about this : I've actually got one. And performance is definitely horrible.
Anonymous 8 Jun 2014
Pre-ordered it! Dont care if it will be a wrapper.

Buy a decent PC, Im running at maxsettings(ubber of).
that unfortunately doesn't fly in w2 case. i read how people with much beefier machines can't pass 10fps.

i'm running it on 9800gt at 720p (my tv) without single problem and no frame drops whatsoever. and to make it even worse, friend is running it without problems on old amd and nvidia 520. then 3rd friend has 780gtx and i7, while his game is completely unplayable even at same settings as me. go figure

it can help if you try reading the git issues users posted, but if you're unlucky probably all you can do is wait for update. still, at least developers are pretty active in communication in that git
beefier machines = GT 210 lol. pff

"3rd friend has 780gtx and i7" pff, GTX 770 4GB(Windforce) can run it at 40FPS maxsettings/1080p under Eon. In windows I can even surpass 51FPS(ubber on)

Kubuntu User!

wonder what the point of your comment was, since it makes 0 sense. there is no "this hw runs and this one doesn't" in w2 case, it is just "if you're lucky it will run nice, if not... you're screwed"

doesn't matter if you went into the future with McCoys time machine and use i9 with 880GTX.
Shmerl 8 Jun 2014
These are really breaking news. I'll buy it on GOG as soon as CD Projekt Red will confirm the news officially.
Shmerl 8 Jun 2014
No way this is going to be a proper port. And, like I said, I'm willing to bet 10€.

In either case, I'm not really that much into the Witcher series. I just can't stand Geralt. Cyberpunk 2077, however...

I'm not aware of any wrappers which can translate DX11 into OpenGL 4 at the moment. Unless it's some WIP which wasn't published yet. So chances are high that it's a native port of their engine. Also, don't forget that unlike with the engine from the Witcher 2, CD Projekt Red plan to release their newest engine for other developers to use, so making an inferior support for Linux is not in their interest at all.
SirBubbles 8 Jun 2014
Lots of hyperbole coming from a lot of people on this. :( Makes me sad. I don't really understand why Witcher 2 runs well on my machine and not others, but the fact is that it does, aside from slow level loading due to running on only one cpu core. I do wish that people could perhaps restrain their emotions just a tad where Eon is concerned and wait and see if things improve.
At lease CDProjekt did a better job with porting Witcher 2 to linux than From Software did of porting Dark Souls to PC. Give them some credit.
Just another Penguin 8 Jun 2014
Well, if they do a proper port then yes.

But I doubt that very much after all the crap they have fed us about Linux Support on GOG and this W2 Wrapping Disaster. CDPR has no experience or much knowledge about supporting Linux.
earthmover 8 Jun 2014
W3 comes out on PS4 so they already have OpenGL version.
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