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Posted April 16, 2012
<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!
Posted April 16, 2012
I have! Gog, you're awesome :)
Posted April 16, 2012
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Tormentfan: Silly rant
lol.
Posted April 16, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: Note to anyone who claimed their backup copy of TW2 and didn't see it on your shelf: you should have your game now.
Some of us (well, me at least), can't see the option to backup our copies.

It's this URL, yes? => http://www.gog.com/en/page/witcherbackup
Post edited April 16, 2012 by Fifeldor
Posted April 16, 2012
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Senteria: What about the people (like me) who downloaded the pre-download patch from the witcher official website? How do I upgrade that?
There's apparently a hiccup there for some folks with pack0.dzip; the guys at RED are trying to fix this, but at the moment I don't have any help I can offer you. Sorry. :(
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TheEnigmaticT: Note to anyone who claimed their backup copy of TW2 and didn't see it on your shelf: you should have your game now.
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Fifeldor: Some of us (well, me at least), can't see the option to backup our copies.

It's this URL, yes? => http://www.gog.com/en/page/witcherbackup
That's not the URL, which explains your problem.

http://www.gog.com/witcherbackup

should work just fine.
Post edited April 16, 2012 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted April 16, 2012
You're right, I saw it afterwards. Redeemed. :-D

Now gonna launch the game in a couple of days. :-P
Posted April 16, 2012
yep, backup works now, thank you for your sleepless nights, gog support:)
it would be nice, by the way, if CDPR would finally add steam cloud support for saves. for both the first game and the second one. I mean - the series use save game transfer and the next title would probably do the same. It's just much simpler and safer to know that your savegame is safe and ready to be transfered into the next game in the series even if something terrible happens to your PC (or your memory, heh, and you forget where you've put the backup save or accidentaly deleted it).
P.S. Nice to see that there are all languages in the gog version now. it's simply so much better to play the game with polish VA and russian or english text, as it was in the original game. Love hearing polish swear words as they sound so close to the ukrainian or russian ones :3
Posted April 16, 2012
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Tormentfan: Seriously! A 'playboy shoot'?!?

Who the fuck is this crap being aimed at?

I can see the point, however tenuous, of the card thing in the first one, and I understand the scenes in W2 'setting the stage' in as far as the feel of the world goes, although nudity in a game certainly isn't necessary to portray it.. but doing a mocked up porn shoot, it's just tacky and pandering, not to mention time being wasted making it.

So who is it supposed to impress? It's an 18 game, so, in a perfect world, it's only adults that would be playing the game and I don't know many adults who are hanging out waiting for this kind of thing, so it basically being aimed at younger teens who are still at the giggly stage with this kind of thing, and they shouldn't be playing it anyway.

I'm rapidly becoming less and less impressed with CDP.. Yes, the new content is nice, but the mistakes and bad decisions they are making along the way, from the BS that the game's priority was the PC, to the stupid comments in interviews and now this?

Where the hell is CDP's head at?
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boskee: You do realize that the Playboy Shoot in question was done a year ago and that another company (Agora S.A.) was in charge of marketing the game in Poland, where it was done?

I couldn't care less about those photos and I too find them questionable, but GOG.com provides the richest version of the game, and if they can add this as bonus material, then I have no problem with it.
When it was made is irrelevent, in my opinion, as well as who was marketing it.. It was still considered by CDP 'worthwhile' wasting time making it and appropriate subject matter to be expanded upon.. as for it being an addition to a rich version.. again I'd hardly call it a worthwhile addition for a game aimed at adults, this kind of material doesn't make it a 'mature' game, in fact I'd argue the exact opposite, it screams of immaturity, and is certainly aimed at luring an audience inappropriate to it's rating.

I'm no prude by any stretch of the imagination, I just feel that it undermines any 'artistic endevour' and also points at a company who have no faith in the abilty of their product to stand on it's own merits, instead of 'desperately' falling back on the tried and tacky. It's schoolyard stuff and certainly not meritous of a serious and mature experience or of the audience it's supposedly aimed at. The obviousness of it, I feel, does it's audience a disservice.
Post edited April 16, 2012 by Tormentfan
Posted April 16, 2012
This is why i love GOG and CD Projekt, These days you normally have to buy DLC or worse, buy the game a second time to get the extra content.

Also, i'm really impressed with the download speed i get from gog. (over 11000KB/s)
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Post edited April 16, 2012 by SimonForsman
Posted April 16, 2012
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Senteria: What about the people (like me) who downloaded the pre-download patch from the witcher official website? How do I upgrade that?
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TheEnigmaticT: There's apparently a hiccup there for some folks with pack0.dzip; the guys at RED are trying to fix this, but at the moment I don't have any help I can offer you. Sorry. :(
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Fifeldor: Some of us (well, me at least), can't see the option to backup our copies.

It's this URL, yes? => http://www.gog.com/en/page/witcherbackup
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TheEnigmaticT: That's not the URL, which explains your problem.

http://www.gog.com/witcherbackup

should work just fine.
Well that's okay. I'm going to bed and download ALL the files from the witcher 2 game in my shelf overnight.
Posted April 16, 2012
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marcusmaximus: Come to think of it, maybe it isn't as bad as I thought. It is like how Spiderweb software charges more for their games on their official site than they do on Steam.
And that's a good thing how?
Posted April 16, 2012
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marcusmaximus: Come to think of it, maybe it isn't as bad as I thought. It is like how Spiderweb software charges more for their games on their official site than they do on Steam.
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kavazovangel: And that's a good thing how?
I can't really argue it if is good but it isn't necessarily as bad ad I thought as long as they allow people who bought the original version upgrade it to the enhanced edition as free. I'm guessing that buy buying it from gog one is giving more money to the developers rather than just buying it from someplace else. Does seem a bit odd though.
Posted April 16, 2012
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jordguitar: Steam did not raise the price. GOG did. Get your facts straight.
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Pheace: I think he was aware of that and simply said that he hates it when Steam does it as well and that it worries him that GoG would be doing it now too. I could be wrong though ^^
Yes, this.

Get your facts straight, jordguitar. :P
Posted April 16, 2012
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Tormentfan: Seriously! A 'playboy shoot'?!?

Who the fuck is this crap being aimed at?

I can see the point, however tenuous, of the card thing in the first one, and I understand the scenes in W2 'setting the stage' in as far as the feel of the world goes, although nudity in a game certainly isn't necessary to portray it.. but doing a mocked up porn shoot, it's just tacky and pandering, not to mention time being wasted making it.

So who is it supposed to impress? It's an 18 game, so, in a perfect world, it's only adults that would be playing the game and I don't know many adults who are hanging out waiting for this kind of thing, so it basically being aimed at younger teens who are still at the giggly stage with this kind of thing, and they shouldn't be playing it anyway.

I'm rapidly becoming less and less impressed with CDP.. Yes, the new content is nice, but the mistakes and bad decisions they are making along the way, from the BS that the game's priority was the PC, to the stupid comments in interviews and now this?

Where the hell is CDP's head at?
You are free NOT to download such content if you do not desire it and not to purchase the game at all if you are "less and less impressed with CDP" as you put it. Heck, you are free to remove yourself from this site, not post any further comments and don't buy a single game anymore if that is what it takes to get your message across to CDP.

As to how letting this content made available to others to download at their own free will, I don't see how this affects you on a personal level or why should it cause you such grief.
Posted April 16, 2012
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Tormentfan: Silly rant
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Fuzzyfireball: lol.
The sheer ammount of extras, polish, and detail make this game too good to miss. Ranting at some good quality 'extra fanservice' is just.... silly;)

Thanks to CdprojectRed for the massive ugrade!
Posted April 16, 2012
The EE versions of the map and the artbook are lower quality than the originals. Either lower resolution or higher compression was used in the images for the PDF. Granted, the EE artbook is 56MB instead of 200MB which is a win for those with slower connections, but as a graphics whore I much prefer the higher quality versions :). Maybe GOG could offer a low-res option and a high-res option for things like artbooks and maps?

The much larger EE soundtrack is nice surprise!
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