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Two full-blown expansions for the epic RPG.




The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is almost here. That means the game is pretty much finished, and the devs are about to take a deep breath while CD-presses and hype machines slowly wind up to take things through the home stretch. It's not gold yet, but now that development is coming to an end, the CD PROJEKT RED team is ready to start their work on two new, ambitious monster-hunting expansions.

The expansions will be called <span class="bold">Hearts of Stone</span>, and <span class="bold">Blood and Wine</span>. Combined, they'll offer over 30 hours of new adventures for Geralt, and the latter introduces a whole new major area to roam. More items, gear, and characters (including a few familiar faces) will all be crafted with the same attention to detail as the game itself.
<span class="bold">Hearts of Stone</span> is a 10-hour adventure across the wilds of No Man's Land and the nooks of Oxenfurt. The secretive Man of Glass has a contract for you - you'll need all your smarts and cunning to untangle a thick web of deceit, investigate the mystery, and emerge in one piece.
<span class="bold"><span class="bold">Blood and Wine</span></span> is the big one, introducing an all-new, playable in-game region to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It will take you about 20 hours to discover all of Toussaint, a land of wine, untainted by war. And to uncover the dark, bloody secret behind an atmosphere of carefree indulgence.







There used to be a time when buying an add-on disk or expansion for your game really meant something. That's what CD PROJEKT RED are going for, it's about bringing that old feeling back. You can take it from our very own iWi, (that's Marcin Iwinski, co-founder of CD PROJEKT RED):

"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 the money. Both of our expansions offer more hours of gameplay than quite a few standalone games out there.”

Hearts of Stone is expected to premiere this October, while Blood and Wine is slated for release in the first quarter of 2016, so there's still plenty of time ahead. We're offering you the <span class="bold">Expansion Pass</span> now - it's a chance to pre-order the two expansions and even show your support for the devs. But we can't stress Marcin Iwinski's words enough:

“Don’t buy it if you have any doubts. Wait for reviews or play The Witcher and see if you like it first. As always, it’s your call."







The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is just over a month away, and you can pre-order the game right now - it's a particularly great deal if you own the previous Witcher games and take advantage of the additional fan discount (both The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings are 80% off right now!). You can also take a rather unique refresher course on the universe with The Witcher Adventure Game at a 40% discount, all until Thursday, 4:59 PM GMT.
Post edited April 07, 2015 by Chamb
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Hello Everyone,

First of all let me thank you for your feedback. Although a bit harsh at times, it is always very passionate, emotional and we really do appreciate it.

I wanted to add a few words to the original press release, which will hopefully shed some more light on the Expansions and the timing of the announcement.

Let me start with the Expansions themselves. The work on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is almost done and we are waiting for the final certifications. Thanks to it we were able to allocate part of the team onto the expansions. Yes, we have been thinking about it for some time, as with over 250 people on the Witcher team good planning is essential.

Rest assured, there is no hidden agenda or cutting out any content from the game. Both Expansions are being built at this very moment, from the ground up – hence the release dates long after the launch of Wild Hunt. We develop them in-house by the same team, which was working on Wild Hunt. This is the best guarantee we can give you that our goal is to deliver both the story and production values on par with the main game.

Now, on the timing of the announcement - in other words “why now” and not - let’s say – “a few months after the release of Wild Hunt”. The reason is very simple: we want to get the word out about the Expansions to as many gamers as possible out there. There is no better time for it than during the apex of the Marketing & PR campaign of the game. Doing it sometime after the release would mean that our reach would be much smaller.

Yes, we are a business, and yes, we would love to see both the game and the Expansions selling well. Having said that, we always put gamers first and are actually quite paranoid about the fact that whatever we offer is honest, of highest quality, and represents good value for your hard earn buck.

Yes, these are just my words. So let me repeat myself from the original release: if you still have any doubts -- don’t buy the Expansions. Wait for reviews or play The Witcher and see if you like it first. As always, it’s your call.

Cheers,

Marcin
Post edited April 09, 2015 by Destro
Huge fan of TW1 and TW2, books and lore, but to be honest, my hype for TW3 has been drowned with multiple delays, downgraded graphics and now, finally and for good by DLC expansion announcements before the base game is even released or seen.

Sure will be getting this, but only when it goes GOTY ed later in 2016.
Don`t like DLC i supported Witcher II with pre-order(still have no played it), wanted to support witcher 3 but got 2 child's so no extra money for that, bad commercial if you ask me. Hope you not to become new EA hate them, really hate, so much i don`t buy their product because of DLC buleshit and exclusive origin tittle.
So for now dont like annunciation ,hope to not hate in near future
best luck guys
They should've announced this a month after the release of the main game with the following line "[...]Thanks to the great success of Witcher 3 we are happy to announce an upcoming Expansion Pack, which will blablabla[...]". Would've worked without much drama and you wouldn't have changed a thing about the development, just the timing of the announcement. You could argue "there is no bad PR" but I say there is and we see it right here.
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Trilarion: Actually if TW3 flops financially then GOG might be in danger to be sold to Origin or Steam or whoever... Let's better pray it's going to be good. :)
I don't know if this is true, but I would think the GOG and CDPR are two separate companies. The success or failure of one should not affect the other.
Day one DLC?
No...
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After months of prolonged release dates it would be "selfshot in the head" to write something different in public at this moment. :) That's why I was saying - let me see the game and/or read independent reviews first, then I will think about expansions...
No disrespect CD Projekts but I still don't have the main game yet. I preorder The Witcher 3 last year. I find it strange that now an expansion are preorder from the preorder. Am I just loosing my mind or does this sound strange?

I'll wait on this expansion till I try out the main game. ATM I don't feel that $20 is worth extra for the main game just for a few more hours of play time. Maybe I'll change my mind after I sample some Witcher 3 game play.
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jalister: The success or failure of one should not affect the other.
Sure it can. If CDPR fails massively it'll affect its parent company CDP's business, which may have some effect on sister company GOG. Is it likely to happen? Quite doubtful, but in theory it could. That said, I have absolutely no idea how big CDP is itself without its videogame branch. Seeing how they do a lot of movie distribution and similar (especially when you consider they have deals with the likes of Disney), I doubt it'd kill them, but I'd imagine it would be painful nonetheless.
Post edited April 08, 2015 by mistermumbles
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Trilarion: If they would have released last year and announced an expansion shortly after/before release you might have said the same.
Not, if everything was done "as planned". In the meantime, I've read too many information / comments to let me think about CDPR's credibility as game developer. I'm not saying all of these are truth, but I think I have right to judge it myself and hold my horses before any excitement.
Post edited April 08, 2015 by Lexor
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ThermioN: Day one DLC?
No...
It's not day one dlc.
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ThermioN: Day one DLC?
No...
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nascent: It's not day one dlc.
You're right, it's even worse. The game isn't even out yet.
Not always post-poned release dates are bad.
Sometimes can hide the will to make things the way they are meant to be, and it's good, especially when you live from what you sell.

That said, I see more and more software houses (not only in the game industry) falling under the weight of their own promises, so sky high that implementation complexity is just a no-no (let alone project managment/marketing idiocy).
I'm also of the belief that pre-orders are nothing more than money wasters.
Even if the witcher 3 will be a failure, probably the company will have one other game to rise from ashes.

I don't understand how we reached a point how a company can move human resources from developing the main program to cook "expansion".

If the main engine/storyline/characters is not finished and stable, the whole expansion will need some reworking again and again.

DFB
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Very bad move GOG. I preordered and don't like this at all.

Having 300+ titles purchased here (pre-unbundled age) I will consider harshly your policies before making another purchase.

Thanks for your consideration.
Post edited April 08, 2015 by Lobuno
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Davane: Still, that said, kudos to CDPR for announcing this now, rather than waiting and announcing it at release. That would really have upset those who pre-ordered hoping for a complete game...
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d2t: Except many if not most of complainers here argue, that this is bad that they dared to announce it this early, before the game is out.

Lets consider.
option A - CDPR is transparent and announces expansions as they start working on them => bad CDPR, how do you dare to announce them this early, it is surely a money grab to fool people into buying DLCs!!!!!
option B - CDPR hides their plans for expansions until few months after release => bad CDPR, I would never buy this game if I knew it is not a complete edition, it was surely some money grab to sell more standalone copies!!!!!
I have to agree with you about this. Many people..(you know who you are) are judging them without knowing all of the facts.

They are almost Gold with their game now. No reason for them to have writers and such sitting on their asses and getting paid. So what do you do with your assets? Of course, you guys can guess.

Now they have announced that they are going to publish Expansions (two!) for the game before the game is out? SO WHAT!

This is not like EA/Bioware that made DAY ONE (PAY for cut content) DLC (Javik I'm looking at your Four Eyes).

Geesus you guys are so fucking full of ENTITLEMENT. You Are Not Entitled To This Shit.

Why did I have to be born in this Age again......? Oh, yeah. I supposedly chose it beforehand.
I'm so "entitled" to a better life than I have now...ooooh boohoo...

Grow a fucking spine, develop your fucking brain and see it for what it really is.
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GZulu: Why did I have to be born in this Age again......?
So you can play Videogames.
Otherwise you couldn't enlight us with your wisdom.