The Witcher 3 - May 19, 2015 - PS4, XBO, PC
 

Oy, witcha'!

Date just announced. Four versions.

Standard edition:
Game manual
Witcher recap
Game map
Soundtrack
Stickers

Collectors edition:
Standard edition content
Statue
Steelcase
Awesome badge
Hard copy 200 page artbook

Digital edition (base edition):
Drm free-game + pre -download
Digital artbook (200 pages)
Bonus videos in HD
Detailed map

Digital edition (GOG.com edition):
Base edition content
Extended game soundtrack
Dark horse comic
concept artworks
special pre-order price + loyalty discount

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's February 2015 Release Date Confirmed With New Trailer

CD Projekt RED has just announced from its Summer Conference livestream that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC on February 24th 2015, putting an end to the watching, wondering and waiting as to when the game will be arriving at long last.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be available as a standard edition in a stylish sleeve with various bonus bits like the soundtrack, a Witcher Compendium booklet, stickers and game map, as well as a Collector's Edition with the following content:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Collector's Edition contains:

All the contents from the standard edition of the game
A giant, 33x24x26 cm (10”), 100% hand painted, Polystone figure of Geralt of Rivia battling a Griffin
An exquisite, collector-grade Witcher medallion
A one-of-a-kind SteelBook box
A two-hundred-page artbook, containing breathtaking art from the game
Huge outer and inner Collector’s Boxes you can store your Witcher merchandise in!

Check out The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's pre-E3 trailer below, then start getting excited for the game's release on February 24th, 2015.

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http://www.xboxachievements.com/news...h-New-Trailer-[Updated].html

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That E3 trailer is flat out impressive...this one will be on my radar.

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I have the first two and I've yet to play them.

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Can't wait. Never played the first but absolutely loved the second. Please tell me we aren't do for another Titanfall like $250 collectors edition.

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Please to excuse my 9 month long boner.

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I still haven't finished the second one.

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as long as you excuse my 9 inch long boner...


love these games...

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I'll get the digital edition that nets me the expanded score. I love the music for these games but refuse to pay $150 for the collector's edition.

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This game can't possibly be as awesome as it looks.

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That's me too; although I just installed the first one today. We'll see if my HP can handle it.

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"Wild Hunt" from Gamescom 2014...

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Free for Everyone: CD Projekt Red Unveils Ambitious 16 Part DLC Plan For 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'

A statement being made with DLC.

One of the biggest trends in the game industry today is the DLC, pre-order, season pass trade. More and more publishers are coming up with slices of content meant to secure either extra revenue or compel players to pre-order or else miss out on content. Quite famously, one game that is bucking this is 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.' CD Projeckt Red has been very vocal about this slicing and dicing of content. Today, the developer announced that no less than 16 DLC packs will be coming to 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,' and that is after the February release date.

The big catch here is that there is no catch, the content packs will free for all players of the game regardless of purchase scheme and date.

And the reason for this generosity? From Marcin Iwiński, co-founder and Joint CEO of CD PROJEKT RED:

We love games. We love collecting them, playing them, and everything connected to that experience. Every time we reach out for a new release, we expect to be taken care of. We expect support if we encounter any problems, we love updates constantly improving the experience, and we feel really special when we receive free content that gives us more than we initially paid for. It doesn't have to be huge, it can be an awesome skin for a character, or an extra sword, or armor.

Unfortunately this treatment is quite rare these days. As gamers, we nowadays have to hold on tight to our wallets, as surprisingly right after release, lots of tiny pieces of tempting content materialize with a steep price tag attached. Haven’t we just paid a lot of cash for a brand new game?

As CD PROJEKT RED, we strongly believe this is not the way it should work and, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we have decided to do it differently. Cutting to the chase, everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform. You don’t have to pre-order, you don’t have to buy any special edition to get them -- if you own a copy of Wild Hunt, they’re yours. This is our way of saying thank you for buying our game.

The first four DLC packs have been detailed, and are very DLC-ish. Details on the remaining 12 are still to come.

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That's awesome news.

Not to be outdone, EA just announced that they will discount their Team Madden card packs by 1% for a whole day.

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If you purchased The Witcher and The Witcher 2 from GOG, you can pre-order The Witcher 3 for $35.99. If you got the first two games elsewhere (like retail stores or Steam or Amazon), you can use your registration key to get a free backup of the first two games and also qualify for the special discount.

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May 19, 2015


http://www.joystiq.com/2014/12/08/th...ed-to-may-2015


The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been delayed to May 19, 2015, CD Projekt RED announced. The game was previously expected to launch in February 2015, but the studio said it sees "many details that need to be corrected" as the game nears the end of its development. "When we release the most important game in our studio's history, we must be absolutely sure that we did everything we could to limit any bugs to a level that will allow you to enjoy the game thoroughly," the developer added.

CD Projekt said it "set the release date too hastily," and that it owes its fans an apology for the delay. "It's a hard lesson, one to take to heart for the future. We know what we want to do to make Wild Hunt one of the best RPGs you will ever play. And we continue to work hard to achieve just that," the developer said. The Witcher 3 is in development for PC, Xbox One and PS4.

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Needs more Polish.

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And less French and German.

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On the one hand, I am pissed about the delay. On the other, I am glad they are taking the time to get the game right before it's released. No sense in pulling an Ubisoft.

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Shouldn't the thread title have the release date updated?

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Good, that'll give me time to finish Witcher 2. I hope 3's a little easier - I'm getting my ass handed to me.

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2 "MASSIVE" EXPANSIONS ANNOUNCED FOR THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT

Two story-driven instalments have been announced for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Unlike the already announced DLC, which CD Projekt is giving away for free, these expansion due to their size and scope will come with a price tag and will represent "real value for money", according to CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwiński.

The first, Hearts of Stone, boasts a "10-hour-plus adventure" and ventures into "the wilds of No Man's Land and the nooks and alleys of Oxenfurt, where he'll [Geralt] try to complete a contract from the mysterious Man of Glass. Caught in a thick tangle of deceit, Geralt will need all his cunning and strength to solve the mystery and emerge unscathed."

The First 15 Minutes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - IGN First
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Furthermore, a second expansion entitled Blood and Wine will offer a "20-hour-plus tale" which will introduce an entirely new region known as Toussaint. CD Projekt Red describes the land as "untainted by war, where an atmosphere of carefree indulgence and knightly ritual masks an ancient, bloody secret."

Speaking to IGN, Iwiński said the new area of Toussaint will look, "extremely cheerful and normal, perhaps even too normal during the day. However, there will be a big secret there."

Hearts of Stone is expected sometime in October, while Blood and Wine is currently slated for release sometime in the first quarter of 2016. Both expansions will, of course, be available on all three platforms – Xbox One, PC, PlayStation 4 – with no mention currently of platform exclusivity.

That's a significant amount of gameplay, especially following on from the game's senior designer, Damien Monnier, revealing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will take players over 200 hours to finish if they "do everything".

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Iwiński compares the expansions above to add-on discs, significant expanded upon The Wild Hunt. "With the development of Wild Hunt coming to an end, the team has embarked upon the creation of two new really big adventures set in The Witcher universe.

"We remember the time when add-on disks truly expanded games by delivering meaningful content. As gamers, we'd like to bring that back. We've said in the past that if we ever decide to release paid content, it will be vast in size and represent real value for money."

Some of Iwiński's comments indirectly refer to the 16 pieces of free DLC that have already been announced for the game. When they were announced Iwiński has spoke openly about the landscape “steeply priced” paid DLC, and how these small pieces of content where being offered for free to people who will have just picked up the game.

The expansions announced today clearly offer something much more substantial, a point emphasised by Iwiński: "Both our expansions offer more hours of gameplay than quite a few standalone games out there."

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is this month's IGN First. Be sure to watch the first 15 minutes of the game above, and check out this roundup page throughout April for all of the updates.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/...er-3-wild-hunt

Lot of gamers angry at CDPR saying how they feel betrayed and they lied saying it was gonna be free.

I think it's great we're getting a good sizeable Expansion like old school games did. The base game already sounds huge enough.

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I think 10-hour and 20-hour DLC is unheard of. So I wouldn't mind paying for that.

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Last time that happened was Skyrim. But I would consider both games Expansion Packs rather than DLC.

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So what is the pace on the Witcher games anyway? Is it Bethesda style where a majority of the game is vast openness with nothing happening or is it a little more tightly confined so it's actually fun?

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Tightly contained. There are oodles of sidequest, sure, but oftentimes the locations of those coincide with the locations of narrative missions. So you feel like you've accomplished a lot whilst still propelling the story forward.

Combat in the first game is a tad frustrating, however, since it consists of rhythmically tapping the mouse button to swing your sword. Combat in the sequel is much improved (and even ads 360 controller support).

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didn't like the voice over but I did like the gameplay. I have never played a Witcher game before but it looks like a more dark/violent Dragon Age. I'm in.

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The novels are also great. I just started reading them and they are a blast.

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http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/...minent-release


:banana: no more delays
:sad: need to play part 2 [never played series]

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Never finished part one (I hated using the mouse for combat) and sucked so bad at part 2 that even Easy kicked my ass at time. :lol:

Still looking forward to this.

Supposedly the guys at CD Projekt Red want to make a Witcher movie after this game. I hope it's awesome because Andrzej Sapkowski hated the last attempt at adapting his work to live action.

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No dong, no sale!

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I heard the books are great. Netflix would be the perfect place to do a Witcher series. It would be their own Game Of Thrones.

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I've been reading the books and they are great. However, I've often read comparisons to Game of Thrones and other than dark fantasy, neither really resembles the other. Sure there's political intrigue in both but the Witcher series focuses on one protagonist (rather than the multiple POV characters of GoT) and has a more tongue in cheek sense of humor (particularly from Jaskier/Buttercup/Dandelion and a lot of the winking references to popular fairy tales sprinkled throughout the books). That said, a Netflix series would be a wonderful medium to adapt the books. Especially the first two books (The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny) which are a loosely connected series of short stories. It's by the third book, Blood of Elves, when everything truly becomes serialized.

Oh and watching a bit of the TV series, I can see why Andrzej Sapkowski hated it. They didn't even get Geralt's backstory right. It's as if they read the back cover summaries of the books and decided they knew enough to adapt them into a TV series.

At least the games wisely set themselves up as a sort of fanfiction sequel to the books. Though, last I read, Andrzej Sapkowski was finally writing another book in the Witcher series and, when asked, he confirmed he will be ignoring the games completely, despite fans clamoring for the contrary. Not that I blame him in the slightest.