Digital delivery? I want a very low price, end of the story. I could spend such a high amount of money for something I can hold in my hands, NOT for digital bits. You think this is insane? Well, conversely I think it's a pretty common opinion about this so called "revolution" of digital goods. Digital goods don't cost money to be "manufactured", so considering the cost involved in the production of a high-class game I think 20 Euros are fair enough.

The game is technically drm free........even if the game with dlc isn't. The original game would still be drm free and thus their assertion and claim stands.
We're hoping that this will lead MORE game makers to ship games as little to no drm on release, to make games easy to install and enjoy for people overall, not just piraters.

But go ahead and think as you do, but don't blame me when......the Spanish(anti-drm) Inquisition comes a knocking!
You're forgetting that it does cost to produce the games.....employee's salaries, devlelopment hardware and software, utilities to run the buildings the stuff is made in, servers to host the download files, etc. You're paying for a AAA title made by an awesome game making team who should be paid equally and want to give them peanuts. Why not fully stab them in the heart and buy a gamestop used version then.

I think you worry too much. No-DRM is No-DRM. CD projekt sells The Witcher 2 without DRM. They can do exactly same thing with DLCs. They trust you will pay because if you were a pirate you would be able to get a cracked version anyway.
I don't believe you will ever need an active internet connection to play The Witcher 2 with DLCs.

You should read at least one license agreement before installing new commercial software then. You don't own any of it basically. You just pay for the right to use it. Whether you have a disk, or downloaded it, it's still the same license, so you're using a digital good, a code, pay for a service it provides, but you do not own it. But you still pay for it, don't you?

Just because it's cheaper to deliver (and not that much, servers are costly) doesn't mean it's any less worth, and with more of the profits going to those who did manufacture the CORE THING itself, the code (much more important than just the box, and disc, and manual) you ensure that more of what you chosen will be produced.

Of course you are free to say "this price is to high for me" and not to buy it. That's a consumer decision, that's how the market works. Just be aware not to confuse "digital goods" with "effortlessly produced" and don't think of them as any less real.

fyi, the original Witcher ( enhanced) is available from Amazon downloads for 6 bucks ...

Is is uncut as well?

And do you need to create an account to download the game or what?

I'm pretty sure the latest patch (or even before that) adds back all content to the cut versions.

Yep. Director's Cut patch, which I believe is 1.5 and the last the game received.

I'm not really making a statement - in a way RPGs are more alive than ever before; there's hardly a game without RPG elements out, and it actually feels odd when playing an exception. I just figured it was a nice pun on my favourite NPC name from Planescape: Torment. :)

Yeah, I saw what you did there :D

I think there is a reading comprehension problem in this thread. I want the same thing...

Can I get a quote on this somewhere? Also, how does amazon download work? Do you need an account there like with gog? Thanks in advance.

If you pre-order, you get free stuff, without having to buy the game, ever, that's pretty neat.If you do decide to buy it when it comes out, it'll only be 45 bucks, and that's a very good deal, as well.When you have complete cookie cutter sequels like Black Ops coming out for a full 60 bones, even on the PC, you really have to ask how anybody could be complaining about this.Really.

Okay, there's ONE thing holding me back from pre-ordering: there's no option to pay now and get the $16 and free game right away. Surely it would be a great incentive to make people pre-order here?

Then people would be taking the 16 bucks and game and cancelling their orders over and over...not gonna happen,