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<span class="bold">[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_witcher_2]The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, the RPG Game of the Year 2011, gets a free update to Enhanced Edition, that packs a bigger punch than any DLC you’ll never have to pay for.

In case you’ve been living under a rock and have never heard about The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, it is “One of the best role-playing games in years”, “One of the most memorable and best written fantasy video games you'll ever play”, an RPG “You can't afford to miss”, because it “Redefines expectations for an entire genre”. Today, the final definitive version of the game is made available as a free update jam-packed with new features, upgrades, and extras.

To celebrate The Witcher 2’s glorious return we’re offering the game with a 15% discount off the full Enhanced Edition price of $49.99, so it’s $42.49 for the next three weeks. This special promo lasts until 7 May 2012 23:59 Central European Summer Time. Additionally, The first game in the series, The Witcher Enhanced Edition, will be available for 50% off (that’s just $4.99!) until 23 April 2012 at 23.59 Central European Summer Time.

The Enhanced Edition of The Witcher 2 features new locations, like the underground system of chambers beneath Loc Muine and a temperate forest in the Loc Muine mountains. A batch of new characters is introduced to the Witcher storyline. All new cinematics and cut scenes expand upon the story, including a new three and a half minute pre-rendered cinematic depicting the assassination of King Demavend of Aedirn, created by BAFTA Award winner and Academy Award nominee Tomasz Baginski.

In additon to more than 4 hours of extra gameplay, improved graphics, new characters, locations, quests, 36 minutes of new cinematics, GOG.com has added the Witcher comic book, new game map, game guide, manual, and soundtrack to your free goodies list, simply because we love you.

Note: This upgrade is available to everyone who has bought The Witcher 2, not just folks who bought it from GOG.com. The upgrade will be free to download from now until a few days after the apocalypse, and is available through the in-game launcher. Note that for faster connections and better error checking, we strongly recommend that you download your new copy of the Enhanced Edition through the GOG.com downloader

In addition to all of this great stuff, we're also running a contest here on GOG.com! It's been a long time since our last fun contest, so we thought we'd challenge you to make a cool, clever, or humorous poster or t-shirt design about The Witcher, Geralt, or anything related to the setting that you think would look great on your wall or your self. This contest will be open all week (until 23.59 Central European Summer Time--which 17.59 Eastern Daylight Time) for you to come up with something clever and amaze us all. Attach your entry to your post--or else post it on an image sharing service and link to it in your post. Once the contest is over, the GOG.com team will look at your entries and pick our favorites to receive a free game of the artists' choice from our catalog!

Spread the word around and show us what you've got in a post on this thread! Happy 'Shooping!
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KainKlarden: Hm, registered a backup copy, it registered the key (definitely as i can't do it again), bu the game is not yet found on my account and is not redownloadable from the game page. Did i try it to early?
Edit: Fixed now, thanks guys.

Same thing happened to me.
Post edited April 16, 2012 by Paschunke
I find it off putting that they raised the price of the game and trying to make it sound like it is a deal even if it comes with a bunch of extras and more hours of gameplay. If you just bought the game before today you could have gotten the same exact thing for 40 dollars on GOG with a free download update today. This does seem a bit shifty and disappoints me that CDprojekt would do that. But at the same time, almost any other company if they did the same thing I wouldn't care. Though, it doesn't directly affect me since I'm going to be buying the xbox 360 version tomorrow.

EDIT: this may bother me less now that I think of it like how Spiderweb Software charges more for their games than steam does. I guess, it depends on whether one wants to give more money to the company or buy it from steam, another store, or site and get the gog version free anyway.
Post edited April 16, 2012 by marcusmaximus
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TheEnigmaticT: I've let Venom know about the problem with the free backups of The Witcher 2 for you guys who bought it elsewhere; they're investigating and will try to fix this ASAP.
Thanks. No need to contact support by ourselves?
Whoa? Midnight release? Neato!:)
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TheEnigmaticT: I've let Venom know about the problem with the free backups of The Witcher 2 for you guys who bought it elsewhere; they're investigating and will try to fix this ASAP.
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mattqu: Thanks. No need to contact support by ourselves?
Nah. We're investigating ourselves at the moment. If you don't see your game on your shelf in a day or so and there's no new update from me, then I'd go ahead and let Support know.
When is the free backup process of Witcher 2 going to finish? I haven't play my copy yet and I don't want to open the box yet!
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Arteveld: Whoa? Midnight release? Neato!:)
Yeah, we're all working late tonight. :)
This "Triss Playboy thingie thingie" better be good to compensate for the fact that I downloaded 22GB for nothing :D

I actually downloaded the usual 2.1 version yesterday and then the EE preload from the official website. Then I realized there is a GOG version weighting nothing less than 15,6GB plus the bonus material of about 2,8GB. Now I am stuck again at downloading 18,4GB of material with my 6Mbps connection.

Either way I really do hope they fixed the stuff I hated about this game.
Post edited April 16, 2012 by holodoc
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Javatzis: When is the free backup process of Witcher 2 going to finish? I haven't play my copy yet and I don't want to open the box yet!
As long as you have an actual product key, the backup process is designed to remain open forever.
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Arteveld: Whoa? Midnight release? Neato!:)
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TheEnigmaticT: Yeah, we're all working late tonight. :)
And there is an idea... Midnight release every monday night :D
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Ghildrean: I'm pretty sure the game was $39.99 BEFORE the update. What, did you have to increase the price for the EE? Or is there something I'm missing?
Well now it's 42 DOLLARS, so I'd say that's about right, no?
I was wondering about the enhanced edition upgrade. I have downloaded most of the files from the predownloader on the official witcher 2 website and now I have to download the remaining files. However I have no clue how to do this. I heard someone say to do the last remaining file via the launcher but all it says is: Patch 2.1 is ready to be installed.
Post edited April 16, 2012 by Senteria
BTW did somebody redeem W2 successfully?
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TheEnigmaticT: Yeah, we're all working late tonight. :)
Rockin' to the dawn!:D
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mattqu: BTW did somebody redeem W2 successfully?
Yes (polish retail version)