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PayPalFeral Interactive are wanting to know what games you want ported to Linux, hopefully taking your requests into real consideration.
See their Tweet below:
Denizens of Linux! Feed #THEREQUESTINATOR so our engineers can see all your requests in one place. Use the tag and you will be processed! pic.twitter.com/OHM6UWHPNN
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) August 11, 2017
They also asked on Facebook and Reddit.
It will be interesting to see if any of the user requests actually get ported. I am always sceptical of things like this, as it's essentially a hype machine for Feral and it doesn't necessarily mean anything will get ported as a result of requests there. Just keep that in mind when wildly requesting ports. Even so, it's a bit of fun and I am excited to see what Feral bring out over the rest of the year and beyond.
I've seen people constantly ask Feral about porting BioShock Remastered to Linux previous to this, but each request is met with the usual "we have nothing to share" type of reply. Considering it's a popular pick, I hope they look into that one. I would certainly appreciate BioShock Remastered on Linux!
So far it seems Doom, Bioshock and The Witcher 3 are popular choices.
What would you like to see?
Would have written this up four hours ago when I replied to their tweet, but updating some of the site code seemed to make time vanish!
Quoting: GuestQuoting: peta77and after Witcher 2 was ported I thought they give it a chance, though the quality of the port wasn't very well (and what makes it actually bad: the promised optimization/fixes never arrived! so for me the bad response by some users is understandable, though the form may sometimes be questionable);
Um, exactly what optimizations did VP promise and not deliver ?
mainly performance improvements as even on decent hardware it was always very slow and had terrible framerates... that anouncement was that they would first finish the 2 or 3 other ports they had in the queue at that time and then start optimizing their wrapper framework and do update first the new ports and later the others including witcher 2... but that actually never happened (at least for witcher 2)
Quoting: Whitewolfe80Quoting: GuestQuoting: Whitewolfe80Quoting: GuestQuoting: Avehicle7887Despite this game's 2 years old now, I bet many Linux users would buy it if it was ported.
No. That's the problem - the Linux users who want to play Witcher 3 have already bought it, and would want the Linux port "for free".
But that brings up another question, why should the end user be punished for paying for a game on a different platform if CD projeckt had kept their word. No linux user would of had to buy it on another platform
Why should the porting house be "punished" by not getting paid for their work?
Well perhaps they should take that up with steam ie its not the end users responsibility who gets what. I do indeed have every sympathy for feral or whoever ports a game however I work damn hard for my money and if i own a game already am not going to buy it again just so i can go rah rah linux.
exactly, as much as you want to get paid for you work, so do others for theirs... and what you have paid for is the ms windows binaries and the data... so i'd agree with you if you'd say you don't want to pay the full price again, as the data should be platform independent... but the binaries & libraries can't be platform independent and from my point of view it would be totally OK if you pay for the binaries for each platform independently... then we'd also get rid of the discussion 'do porters get their share' that comes up every now and then...
Doom ( 2016 )
Quake Champions ( assuming id's new overlords don't bother doing one )
Quoting: GuestUpdates were released which resolved all of that... true we never got it on par with Windows mainly due to the issues with GL and streaming data, but it was good and very playable.
It works well on overpowered GPUs. I never got a good experience with my previous one. Even though it was above recommended specs. I'd say the biggest problems where VP dropped the ball was releasing this without a testing/beta period. Also the "whiny" style of communication did not really help. Like the "GL has issues" nonsense when the game was still running way better in Wine. Didn't really encourage sympathy. Both might have helped a lot against disgusting behaviour displayed by some. Luckily, VP stuck with it because the newer stuff hasn't given me many issues.
Quoting: Guestthe Linux users who want to play Witcher 3 have already bought it
Have we?
Quoting: GuestTW2 is quite happily playable for me now (actually I should go back to it soon), is natively supported, and works nicely with Mesa.That's true. It was released in a sorry state, but VP did later put out several new builds. The current version ran just fine on my old GTX 760. Whether it would have been faster on Windows or not is irrelevant to me.
So perhaps it didn't have the best launch in the world, but it's fine now.
Quoting: Duncwell, I didn't... but as soon as it's available, I'll buy it; no matter if it's on sale or not...Quoting: Guestthe Linux users who want to play Witcher 3 have already bought it
Have we?
elbuglione Aug 22, 2017
Quoting: GuestQuoting: Avehicle7887Despite this game's 2 years old now, I bet many Linux users would buy it if it was ported.
No. That's the problem - the Linux users who want to play Witcher 3 have already bought it, and would want the Linux port "for free".
Nop...still waiting.
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