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I am just wondering when that will be happening? Waiting to see!
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Sarxis: I am just wondering when that will be happening? Waiting to see!
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As soon as full version was available i bought it. Unfortunately there's no Linux download available.
I bought it because demo was available on Linux, and full version's description says Linux is supported.
Is it just because it's new and not all download options were setup yet, or is there an error on description page?
Post edited September 25, 2023 by qyzz
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qyzz: As soon as full version was available i bought it. Unfortunately there's no Linux download available.
I bought it because demo was available on Linux, and full version's description says Linux is supported.
Is it just because it's new and not all download options were setup yet, or is there an error on description page?
I loved the demo and I too bought the game upon seeing that it would be available for Debian-based Linux systems.

This is not uncommon for games on GOG to not have their Linux build available while it is on Steam. This is due to the fact that when selling a game on GOG, publishers only expect to get a fraction of the revenue generated from Steam, hence have a lot less incentive to support multiple versions for less-known platforms. From the point of view of the dev, there are more urgent matters in their to-do list than fixing the niche Linux version (compared to Windows) from the niche GOG store (compared to Steam).

In this particular case, I think this is only a matter of time before the Linux version is made public :) And I'm really looking for it !
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qyzz: As soon as full version was available i bought it. Unfortunately there's no Linux download available.
I bought it because demo was available on Linux, and full version's description says Linux is supported.
Is it just because it's new and not all download options were setup yet, or is there an error on description page?
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Thi4FF: I loved the demo and I too bought the game upon seeing that it would be available for Debian-based Linux systems.

This is not uncommon for games on GOG to not have their Linux build available while it is on Steam. This is due to the fact that when selling a game on GOG, publishers only expect to get a fraction of the revenue generated from Steam, hence have a lot less incentive to support multiple versions for less-known platforms. From the point of view of the dev, there are more urgent matters in their to-do list than fixing the niche Linux version (compared to Windows) from the niche GOG store (compared to Steam).

In this particular case, I think this is only a matter of time before the Linux version is made public :) And I'm really looking for it !
You're probably right, but that does not look good for developer and/or GOG, because at the moment game's page is lying :(.

While revenue from GOG sells might be a lot smaller, developer still takes my money and i still don't receive what i was promised.
I see two things we can do right now :

1. Take advantage of the GOG refundable policy : you can ask for a refund for any game up to 30 days after purchase, as long as this is in good faith (and in this case it is, as you point out) and buy the game again when/if the Linux build is made available here. See : GOG Support Center - How do I refund a game?


2. Reach out to the dev (Andriy Bychkovskyi) on Twitter (theundervault) or on Discord (UZe49G33Ys). I use neither of those but I might give it a go in the coming days. Please mind that this mistake was most likely made in good faith from the dev part too. Now that I think about it, the Steam Community page for the game might also be a good place to reach him directly

Let's keep us updated here about what we do, okay ?
And now the Linux version is here. Strangely, the date on it (from the .xml file or the CDN server's time) is actually earlier than the Windows version that gogdb shows was added a week ago. The Nayuta (Windows) builds have also been super slow, I wonder if there is a common cause (I didn't check the date on those yet).
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joveian: And now the Linux version is here. Strangely, the date on it (from the .xml file or the CDN server's time) is actually earlier than the Windows version that gogdb shows was added a week ago. The Nayuta (Windows) builds have also been super slow, I wonder if there is a common cause (I didn't check the date on those yet).
All for the best then ! Thank you for the heads up
Good call using gogdb to check.

I wonder, could this be related in any way to the new patch release of Cyberpunk 2077 and the veteran players overwhelming GOG servers ? (before the DLC was made available a few days ago). This happened before, when a big game is released, servers have trouble keeping up and downloads crash a lot, browsing the store becomes tedious, etc...

Maybe the dev had troubles to upload or update the game and chose to wait for a bit ?
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Hafnium_:
Downloads being slow or failing could easily be related to the DLC but uploading seems less likely since the installer builds will be happening on different servers than we use. Even if there isn't any auto retry if the completed build isn't uploaded correctly I would hope it wouldn't take them a week to notice.

Although somehow a build seems to not be getting uploaded for a week so I guess that's as good of an explanation as any that I could think of. Another might be that the build time might be defined at the beginning of the build so if they have to fix something and rerun most of it but don't need to start the process from the very beginning, although that still doesn't explain why it takes a week to fix the issue. Unless they need something else from the developer and don't reset the date on the build after they get it, but I checked Nayuta and that build that took almost a week to be available was also dated the 20th and in that case appeared on the 26th. It seems unlikely that they would just happen to need something from the developer for two completely different games on the same day. gogdb isn't showing anything changing for the cyberpunk DLC until the 26th, though I don't have that one to check what date it claims.
Thanks, Linux version is now available for me too and i was able to download and play it without problem :).