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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!
meh still downloading and i need sleep i dont trust the computer to DL overnight as it has stopped a few times and needed me to hit "retry" im only on patch-21 and judging by the time left im less than half way through the download.

If i shut the computer down will it pick up from where it left off or from scratch?

Edit: to prove im tired there is a progress bar, 40% ish
Post edited April 16, 2012 by reaver894
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Destro: snip
Ahh, thanks for the quick reply. Guess my connection to the servers is just terrible then. D: (comparatively-speaking, what with somebody posting a screengrab at 11000KB/s!)

Good to hear parallel downloads are possibly on their way in the future!
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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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hedwards: On a slightly related note, will our shelves be updated to reflect the change? I'm still showing the regular TW2, but clearly from both this post and clicking on the shelf it's really the updated version.
Yeah, the box art should update sometime soon. It's changed on our end so I'm guessing it's a caching issue or something? The dev guys would know better.
Mine has the updated copy on the shelf (the picture is updated)
The box art on my shelf was updated 2 hours ago, it's like this
Crap. I thought I had to wait until the 17th. I've missed a whole day of TW2EE goodness. Thanks to CDPR and GOG for all of their tireless work. Their passion and principles have made me a loyal customer for life. It is a great time to love RPG's.
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Pheace: ...
Well, now that I looked at it... 39.99 EUR is currently 52 US dollars. So if anything, it's actually a bit cheaper :D
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Fenixp: Well, now that I looked at it... 39.99 EUR is currently 52 US dollars. So if anything, it's actually a bit cheaper :D
Ow right, forgot it was regionally priced. Well, I was talking about the US price here on GOG before and after the EE change :)
Post edited April 16, 2012 by Pheace
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hedwards: On a slightly related note, will our shelves be updated to reflect the change? I'm still showing the regular TW2, but clearly from both this post and clicking on the shelf it's really the updated version.
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TheEnigmaticT: Yeah, the box art should update sometime soon. It's changed on our end so I'm guessing it's a caching issue or something? The dev guys would know better.
I wasn't sure because the name of the item hadn't been changed to reflect that it's now the enhanced edition.
spose ill have to risk it as no one has said either way, will be a bit grumpy if it doesnt keep the progress
Ooooh and someone FINALLY thought of removing 'the' from 'The Witcher 2,' so I finally have both games in the same place (I don't use shelf and only use alphabetical order. Previously, games were named 'Witcher' and 'The Witcher 2,' or maybe the other way around.)
I just got done registering my CE retail edition that I got from Amazon. Painless and easy. Now I got a super duper over 9000 gog.com version of witcher 2 enhanced edition :D Thanks for all the love, support, and awesomeness you give to your gog.com customers!!!
No offense, but some people might consider that a streaming video on a website's front page which plays and uses bandwidth without asking the user, is against GOG's policy of "no hassle".
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Crosmando: No offense, but some people might consider that a streaming video on a website's front page which plays and uses bandwidth without asking the user, is against GOG's policy of "no hassle".
Nothing happened on my side until I clicked 'play'
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Crosmando: No offense, but some people might consider that a streaming video on a website's front page which plays and uses bandwidth without asking the user, is against GOG's policy of "no hassle".
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Fenixp: Nothing happened on my side until I clicked 'play'
There's a video that plays until you click play to play the big video.

EDIT: here's a link to the video that plays on page load:
http://files.gog.com/tw2_trailer/small.webm
Post edited April 16, 2012 by adambiser