CD PROJEKT RED announced today that worldwide pre-orders for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have exceeded 1 million. The game is scheduled to launch on May 19th and promises to be one of the best RPGs to date (yes, despite all this controversy surrounding its visuals).
Marcin Iwi?ski, co-founder of CD PROJEKT RED, said:
“We’ve crossed the 1 million pre-order milestone and it’s all thanks to you guys! We would like to thank all the gamers for their trust and support. This is the last stretch and we’re pushing hard – over the last two weeks, we’ve increased performance on all platforms and started working full speed on the expansions, Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine.”
Set within a truly open world, the game puts you in the role of a wandering bounty hunter and monster slayer, Geralt of Rivia. In The Witcher, you take on the greatest contract of your life – tracking down the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
The game will receive 16 entirely free DLCs that will be available for every gamer owning a copy of Wild Hunt. The DLCs will be released in pairs on a weekly basis, starting from May 20th.
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I like CDProject but i stand by my decision to never pre-order games. I would like to say good for them but man, pre-ordering games is a disease that needs to be exterminated.
you are doing the right thing. although i totally support those that pre-order CDPR games as well but if we don’t stop the pre-ordering even on games that are garanteed to be good, then this practice won’t go away. sadly though, it is out of our hands probably. console gamers have a say in it too. they are not united as much as PC gamers.
How is preordering a game from a reputable company a disease?
Reputable until the downgrade talk. Better to wait and see.
because its reputable until its not. pre ordering is a gamble with no possible benefit, its all risk
GTA V says hi
not the same budget or time is spent on it. not a fair comparison.
how old r u ?
12 ?
What’s your point?
He’s just some fanboy (his avatar makes that clear) that spams every article that can be related to his 1-year-old game.
The review embargo ends in 21 hours.
Conan’s reviews are more accurate than most other reviews ironically and his review is out:
“Best thing that happened”
also preload is avaliable on GOG and Steam. steam version is 21.3GB
Good for them. Hopefully this doesn’t mean more false advertising in the future.
I fear for their Cyberpunk game
good choice!
I can’t believe people are actually cancelling their pre-orders because of the downgrade.
Imagine your S.O cheated on you, Are gonna Break Up? or get married? lol
I got it for free, So I’ll get it from my GOG account, would’ve bought a retail copy just to support them but I guess they’re more worried about their marketing deals and that to care and think about and admit downgrades were done in order to appease console manufacturers and owners.
i dont even like RPGs but good for them
Wow. A million fools…
One milion deceived souls :).
Pre order FTW. Turn down for what.lmao
STEAM dayONE 4k FTW.
“released in pairs on a weekly basis, starting from May 20th.”
Hmm… Maybe it would be best to wait a few weeks before purchasing.. And 16 of them, so that’s a full 2 more months until everything they’ve basically created, up till this point, will be included in the download.
Not to mention who knows how many patches which would include stability fixes…
Hmmm….
My pre order is cancelled, this CDPR downgrade console parity with the PC is bullsheit, and you should see the damage controll in effect going on at their official forums and at gamespot.
At their official forums they are deleting posts non stop and banning people left and right. At gamespot in 2 days they’ve spammed news on the witcher 3 like yay million pre orders! then yay leaked Xbox One video looks great, and that first article shows a 1080p 60 fps PC VIDEO, not an Xbox One video… Gamespot Bullsheitspot… then they proceed to create yet another article showing an Xbox Video, presumably a real one, where the game still looks like crap compared to the 2013 videos, and today they spam that same exact video yet again… Disgusting “journalism”.