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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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gibbeynator: Can anyone confirm if the Witcher 2 installer has been updated to the Enhanced Edition version yet? I figure it's probably faster in the long run to just get the new installer and back that up, instead of just extra patches.
It has.
I already have Witcher 1 (EE) on Steam (I didn't know GOG back then but Valve isn't bad either), but I'll, no doubt, buy Witcher 2 (EE) here on GOG.
CDP needs to know that they are doing a awesome service for the PC community as a whole and for that they have my support.

Just keep up the good work CDP/GOG. I'm with you. =D
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Immoli: So I went to check out the standalone download on The Witcher 2 site...

"Make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive. The patch consists of several installation files which depending on how many voiceovers you want to download it will weigh in total from around 11 gigabytes to around 15 gigabytes."

Is that correct? 11 GBs minimum? That doesn't seem to make sense.
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Coelocanth: That's correct. What do you find doesn't make sense?
Well the game on GOG is 15.6 GBs to download and my current vanilla download is 9.5 GBs. How is the patch larger than the base game?
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mrkgnao: And some are already on GOG, so it shouldn't be too hard to guess which one will be tomorrow's. GUESS AWAY!
Probably Dune, because http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_witcher_backup/post26 . :p
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mrkgnao: snip
Don't forget that GOG may want to leverage its new partnership with Zeus Software, the makers of the Glide wrapper nGlide, thus resulting in Thursday's game being a Glide-based game. As such, according to MobyGames, there are approximately...

188 <span class="bold">Windows</span> games from 1998 which support Glide...

11 <span class="bold">MS-DOS</span> games from 1998 which support Glide...
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mrkgnao: And some are already on GOG, so it shouldn't be too hard to guess which one will be tomorrow's. GUESS AWAY!
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Grilledfish: Probably Dune, because http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_witcher_backup/post26 . :p
But I believe Dune is a 1992 game, not a 1998 game.
I'm assuming it's "Wing Commander: Prophecy", then :)
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Grilledfish: Probably Dune, because http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_witcher_backup/post26 . :p
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mrkgnao: But Dune 2000 is 1998 game.

But I believe Westwood's licence to name "Dune" is already expired.

But I believe Dune is a 1992 game, not a 1998 game.
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mrkgnao: snip
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Expack: Don't forget that GOG may want to leverage its new partnership with Zeus Software, the makers of the Glide wrapper nGlide, thus resulting in Thursday's game being a Glide-based game. As such, according to MobyGames, there are approximately...

188 <span class="bold">Windows</span> games from 1998 which support Glide...

11 <span class="bold">MS-DOS</span> games from 1998 which support Glide...
I thought that that was only a recent partnership, Has GOG had the time to arrange a glide based game to run on modern OS's?
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marcusmaximus: That does make sense BUT I think they should have told people they were going to raise the price for new comers for the PC version if they didn't buy it before today.
I don't remember exactly how things went down so I apologize if I am completely wrong but I think that when they first announced that an enhanced edition was to be released it was stated that the price would go up when it came out. I don't remember if there was an actual sale going on at that time or if they just were pushing for you to buy it then so you could get the update for free when it was update was released.

Perhaps there should of been another reminder that the price would change.
Post edited April 17, 2012 by madcartoonist
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Protoss: You want to know what I think of supporting GOG?
[url=http://gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Protoss]http://gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Protoss[/url]
There is the answer.
Wow, that IS impressive. But still - GOG wouldn't sell steam keys. On the other hand, GOG is the owner of CDPR as far as I know and developers can give out keys for their games on Steam...
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Protoss: You want to know what I think of supporting GOG?
[url=http://gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Protoss]http://gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Protoss[/url]
There is the answer.
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theadam: Wow, that IS impressive. But still - GOG wouldn't sell steam keys. On the other hand, GOG is the owner of CDPR as far as I know and developers can give out keys for their games on Steam...
It is the other way :) CDPR is the owner of GOG ;)
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theadam: Wow, that IS impressive. But still - GOG wouldn't sell steam keys. On the other hand, GOG is the owner of CDPR as far as I know and developers can give out keys for their games on Steam...
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spinefarm: It is the other way :) CDPR is the owner of GOG ;)
Correcting the correction, both are sister companies under CD Projekt... neither CDPR nor GOG.com own one another.
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spinefarm: It is the other way :) CDPR is the owner of GOG ;)
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Garugo: Correcting the correction, both are sister companies under CD Projekt... neither CDPR nor GOG.com own one another.
You got me :D (walking in the corner with head down )
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spinefarm: snip
No need for the head down, just felt the need straighten up the facts :D (unless, of course, I'm wrong as well xD)