Critical reaction to bad port is of course normal and it should be, but this was not about people being critical, but hateful, vitriol spilling beasts.

Selling like hotcakes? Haha, the PC version of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings sold probably like only 30,000 copies on Linux.

It was terrible, but only at launch. After the necessary fixes and adjustments it worked (and works) pretty smoothly.


Well, I don't have the actual figures, but I'd daresay it has sold like hot cakes.


No. The problem was that there were a bunch of terrible human beings who went too far with their criticism, and that cannot be justified by any means. Just read Jaycee's (the ex-Virtual Programming dev) comments on reddit, or on the GamingOnLinux article itself.
On the other hand, and as I've already said before in this thread, using this as an excuse to punish the huge innocent majority of Linux users with no further releases is extremely lame.

What the OP and Jaycee fail to grasp is that this is an *internet* phenomenon, NOT a linux phenomenon, and one that has existed for quite a long time, so if it did influence CDPR's decision, that is both immature and unprofessional.

Yeah, I know, it's what I said in the part of my quote I've left.

However, I think both reactions (Jaycee's and the OP's) are utterly human and understandable: the former probably has an skewed perception after what he suffered, and the latter comes across as one of those idealistic types that wish these things didn't happen (at all, or at least within their community).

Sounds about right.

:(

That would be the first company not selling products to customers because they are dicks.

I haven't really tried the linux port of Witcher 2, because I had already finished the game - on Linux, using wine - before it showed up. I don't recall having had issues worth complaining about. If the port provides a worse experience, maybe it really wasn't money well spent?

I highly doubt the decision not to port Witcher 3 has anything to do with Linux users being mean to the companies, and is all about economics. It's far more likely they decided the potential sales to Linux users wasn't worth the time and money to port it.

No, it doesn't. The timing doesn't fit at all. I explained it here.


The problem were personal attacks on developers and death threats. How stupid is that? However I don't agree that any such backlash was the reason for cancellation of TW3 for Linux. See above.

I'm all for making this world fit for human habitation, but hand-wringing and lamentation aren't going to get it done.

Re Jaycee, I learned to protect my PI before the WWW showed up, but that runs contrary to the interests of those who see PI as a commodity that should be exploited like any other commodity is; consequently, there continues to be a great deal of confusion re "safe surfing".

I was speaking about different thing, but interesting insight!