Blair Witch releases on August 30th and while it was meant to be released on GOG, it appears that it won’t be coming to CD Projekt’s store at launch. While the game was available for pre-order, GOG has disabled pre-order for this particular title and is now offering refunds to those that have pre-purchased it.
As GOG has officially stated:
“We regret to inform you that the DRM-free version of Blair Witch won’t be released on GOG.COM on the global release day. We expect it to be available later in 2019. As such, we’re refunding your pre-order purchase of the game. The refund will be issued within the next couple of days to the original payment method.”
This could mean two things: a) the DRM-free version of Blair Witch will be released later in 2019 in order to somehow protect the game’s sales during its first months or b) the game may turn into another Epic Games Store timed-exclusive title.
My guess is that the former is more likely to happen than the latter. As such, the Steam version should not be affected by this decision, though it remains to be seen whether Bloober Team will implement any additional DRM – like Denuvo – in order to protect the game from hackers/crackers.
For what it’s worth, the game is still listed for an August 30th release on its official Steam store page.
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this freaking industry man.
why do always online games flop then?
i did they flop
Apparently bethesda released the original doom games on consoles…with drm, that requires you to log in…and it has log in issues.
i repeat THIS…FREAKING…INDUSTRY.
If one plays 20 year old PC FPS game (modded as hell through years) on console, he deserves this.
And it’s f_cking stupid Man 🙁 , I really hope my game will be huge and I am going to make a point to release all the info that shows that not adding DRM increases game sales and that some companies are still living in the stone age.
For those that will pirate my game all I can say is enjoy the game and when you have the money or want to show respect then buy the game legit. It’s that simple I have no beef toward pirates and won’t jack up my game with DRM or punish all the legit customers who bought it.
Anyways rant out, I really dislike DRM it’s pointless in my opinion.
Hey peasant, just go away play with your 15fps box and leave The Master Race™ alone!
good, playing a walking simulator is sad, buying it is rytarded and if you pre-order it, you deserve to die.
@John Papadopulos
Ey john i actually wanted to ask you something , could you compare how much better the RTX 2080 Super vs Non-Super is FOR RAY TRACING??? no one has compared this in YouTube for what i’ve seen and im really interested , specially in Metro Exodus i’d like to see , difference in FPS with RTGI in ultra between the two , with dlss OFF obviously.
look up rt cores of 2080ti and 2080 then watch a video comparison then look up rt cores of 2080 super, you should be able to tell yourself.
Been a while since i have seen you posting here.
hi <3
No faith in their game, I’ll just have to wait for the surprise investment copy from cpy/codex
Will buy this if it makes its way to EGS.
stfu you pathetic EGS shill.
They should release the game on every store but instead of the full game they should make us download 20% of it from Steam, 20% from GOG, 20% from Epic Store, 20% from UPlay and 20% from Origin.
The only thing these companies are doing lately for me as a costumer, is not wanting to go and buy their games anymore. Either they release minimal viable products (lack of content at release to see if then they’ll release more half a year later, like those EA “games as service” bs games), unfinished ones (Early Access needs to die already), full of micro-transactions in a paid game (messing around with progression systems/adding grind mechanics where is not needed), buggy games, copy & paste uninspired games (BattleRoyale, Looter shooters are the new “Zombie games”), etc.
What a mess of an industry…then you see people “complaining” but once these companies announce something “new” they are going to pre-order and commit the same mistake again, then complain and the cycle of stupidity continues non stop while companies keep making money.
Much Love Brother, 100%.
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Apparently bethesda released the original doom games on consoles…with drm, that requires you to log in…and it has log in issues.
i repeat THIS…FREAKING..INDUSTRY.
because they still won’t admit that there is way more piracy on console than there is on PC. which infuriates me. Just go search any console game torrent and you will see way more seeds and leeches than any PC game ever. And Bethesda has always been a CUCKLORD 9000. They especially have been so disrecpectful to the pc community. yet the PC community treat them like gods with that Dumbazz AZZrym.
Like you said ‘THIS…FREAKING…INDUSTRY.
ps4/xbone games are cracked?
Bruh, how come you don’t know this my dude? They’ve been cracked many years now. A.k.a Jail Broken.
for real so you can play new games with it or old ones?
Dont care either way but i thought the new consoles were not cracked.
They SHOULD refund the money PLUS taxes MINIMUM.
where are my steam slaves? https://media0.giphy.com/media/U8bDgsXcnIEFy/giphy.gif
This is just retarded at this point.
We’re seeing pubs left and right, as well as devs, simply pulling games from a good store, and instead slapping them on a bad one or delaying them from releasing on the good store.
All for what could possibly be a few weeks sales, which won’t matter in 20 years down the road, or an exclusive deal with Epic, which again, will not matter 20 years down the road, besides ruining your long-term rep and credibility within this industry.
Just stop trying to hinder a DRM free store and release the damn game you spineless greedy cowards.
/applaud
Exactly, because they forget that 20 years down the road games are still selling hot as hell on PC, but there will be 4-7 different consoles iterations. PC is a universal platform and it is where games go to be immortalized. They seem to be forgetting this SCHITT! But my wallet sure as hell doesn’t forget that’s for sure.
Not to worry. The DRM-free version will still come out day 1, it just won’t be on GoG, or by their own doing.
Just when i think the DRM-Free squad is gaining, nope… The problem with all of this is that, look at a game like Vampyr that hit the GOG store recently. All the so called pre-order stuff is not a viable and i own a version on steam as well, the Gog version even plays more inferior than the one on steam and i can’t figure out why this is. So if you’re one of those people that like to have the stuff the game was released with, you are out of luck if you want a DRM-FREE version. By the time the game gets to you, you pay the same price for less stuff. I
wasn’t even interested in the Blair witch, but when i saw it on Gog i said, sure i’ll support. Now i will never buy that garbage. Same for Sinking City, it finally popped up on Gog for a 2020 release. That game was pirated day 1 on the epic store, so i fail to see the point of “protecting the first initial sales”. That’s become the new buzz phrase and it’s FALSE AS FUQ. The Blair witch will be pirated day 1 regardless, so all they are doing is alienating people.
100% this, it’s f_cking stupid Man I just don’t understand the thinking at all? If your game is pirated then you should really think of it as a Denuvo case when it gets cracked. In other words you should 100% release it on GOG DRM free and watch the money come in.
If more companies would be relevant and in tune to what is cracked(especially their own products) then they could make way more sales on GOG and even Steam by removing their DRM. To me the whole thing is insane and just shows how out of touch these companies are. I also double dipped with Vampyr, sucks about the state of some of the releases on GOG though.
Ok np, I’ll save my money then. 🙂 The publisher should have released a statement weeks ago, but they chose to do it in SECRET and had CDPG notify people. Smells like EGS.
Like when Hello Games gave GoG users the middle finger with that highly anticipated multiplayer patch for NMS – which still didnt make that scam fun – so they just quietly ignored a press release until there was backlash. GoG (CDPG) had to write something up and gave out mass refunds.
This is not “just business”. This is dirty, to railroad consumers into control by a lack of choice, and it’s easy to see who the sleazy con artists are if you take a look at their little schemes.
With that said I don’t understand why Gog didn’t ban that game from their store after all that mess. Because I renewed the debacle and Gog issued a refund months down the line to people closer to a year almost I think. I’m surprise they didn’t just right out ban hello games. Because what hell games did was fraud.
Oh I’ll raise you one. I got Resident Evil 2 Remake & Devil May Cry 5 for “free” with my GPU and I still haven’t even installed/played them Denuvov infested filth.
Well said, BINGO!
LOL to all the people b*ching for the sake of b*ching in the comments. If you are actually buying the game then what is the damn problem? the game will work even with DRM. such entitlement
For what is worth, this is just a hide and seek game. I’ll be surprised if it sells any good.