Why not port the Witcher 3 to Linux?

For the game's Next-Gen patch, CD Projekt Red have apparently updated the game with a new quest. I don't know if that is really the case, for I have not been able to get the game running on Ubuntu since the update dropped.

Come to think of it, adding another quest to the game is not THAT simple. For one, they need to make sure that the new quest does not break the game. Two, they would have probably needed to re-hire the original voice actors... for all the dozen or so languages that they did a dubbed version of back in 2015. That could potentially be a LOT of money.

So, I am thinking, like, why not port the game to Linux? It seems like they don't mind throwing a lot of money on a 7 year old game. Why not port it to the greatest family of operating systems?

Like, I am sure that a team of 20 guys with $50.000 at their disposal could easily port the game over to Linux. But instead, they spend that money on a silly sidequest?

I do not get it.

I second this. I'd like to run it on my Steam Deck. The game though just crashes when I try to get it working.

That works out to two and a half thousand dollars per person. At best you are looking at a fortnight's pay. After that they are volunteers.

If you mean each, that comes to $1,000,000 and I don't think they spent that much on voice acting for that one new quest.

Adding a quest and porting a game to another OS are two complete different tasks.. the second is way more difficult and time-consuming than the first one.

Anyway, if AIs continue to improve, maybe in the future we'll get one that could port games to Linux lol.
(if companies are lazy with it tho, there will be a bunch of issues)
Now that I think of it, they probably already used something similar for some "remasters", like GTA.. it didn't go well.

Because that would go against their plans for pushing Galaxy use in every imaginable way.