The Witcher 2 on sale!

[DanglingPointer]

Just a friendly heads up that the witcher 2 is 4 bucks on Steam at the moment! Get it while it lasts!

[oldrocker99]

While The Witcher 2 got a raftful of complaints about the not-yet-quite-ready eON wrapper that it used, the developers worked on it, and now the game runs very well indeed. I've spent several hours just in the first town after the prologue with no crashes. In other words, it's 100% playable, and, if it's on sale, and you don't have it yet, grab it!

[sffvba[e0rt]

I actually bought the it on DVD and not on Steam so I am not sure how and if I can get a Linux version?! Any suggestions or do I have to repurchase in Steam? :/

[CharlesA]

I actually bought the it on DVD and not on Steam so I am not sure how and if I can get a Linux version?! Any suggestions or do I have to repurchase in Steam? :/

You should be able to redeem the key you got with the dvd on GOG. Not sure if they have Linux builds tho.

http://www.gog.com/witcher/backup

[sffvba[e0rt]

You should be able to redeem the key you got with the dvd on GOG. Not sure if they have Linux builds tho.

http://www.gog.com/witcher/backup

I actually have it on GoG too but last I checked no Linux version...

[CharlesA]

I actually have it on GoG too but last I checked no Linux version...

Says 14.04 and Mint on the store page =/
http://www.gog.com/game/the_witcher_2

I also see a Linux installer that's ~20GB in my library there.

[sffvba[e0rt]

Says 14.04 and Mint on the store page =/
http://www.gog.com/game/the_witcher_2

I also see a Linux installer that's ~20GB in my library there.

[oldrocker99]

That GOG installer includes the latest eON wrapper. When GOG first released The Witcher 2 for Linux, it came zipped with an older version of the wrapper. Virtual a Programming, who developed the wrapper (yeah, I know it's not a wrapper the way wine is a wrapper, but it's the common term) posted publically that they had the latest vesion on their website. GOG did incorporate the updated wrapper since then.

The interesting thing to me is that GOG.com is a subsidiary division of RedProjekt, who gave us Witcher 1 and 2, and 3 sometime soon. They had discovered that when W1 was released on disk, it was very heavily pirated. They sold it for $10 on GOG, and sales skyrocketed, even though there was zero DRM. This is a big reason that GOG eschews DRM.

[sffvba[e0rt]

Well got the GoG game to finally run, had lots of unmet dependencies I had to hunt down and install... and the game crashes on exit :/ At least it works