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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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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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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?
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Fenixp: Well now it's 42 DOLLARS, so I'd say that's about right, no?
$50 actually, but it has a discount for the coming few weeks:
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
So yeah, they raised the price with the EE re-release.
I have the Enhanced Edition in my library. Just wondering, does the enhanced edition with patch download or is it just the original 'Witcher 2' and I have to get the enhanced edition patch elsewhere? Thanks.
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mattqu: BTW did somebody redeem W2 successfully?
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Sashh: Yes (polish retail version)
Same version here and didn't work, so it seems the version doesn't matter.
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Pheace: ...
That... Yeah, that quite sucks. Good thing I already have it :D

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Tormentfan: Seriously! A 'playboy shoot'?!?

Who the fuck is this crap being aimed at?
Umm... Is there someone aiming at your head with a gun, forcing you to download those? CDP's already had their hands on the material, so why not realease it. Besides, I'm hardly a teen and I'll surely check it out.
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TheEnigmaticT: Yeah, we're all working late tonight. :)
I hope it's rare for you to work nights
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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?
They've been doing this since the first game. The first Witcher included a calender which featured those semi nude pose. I don't like it either but i can't speak for others. Maybe they like it, i don't know.
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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 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.
Post edited April 16, 2012 by boskee
Thanks, GOG! My amazon purchase redeemed successfully. I understand why CDP opened up to consoles, but make sure your big brother doesn't forget us pc users ;)
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jaju123: I have the Enhanced Edition in my library. Just wondering, does the enhanced edition with patch download or is it just the original 'Witcher 2' and I have to get the enhanced edition patch elsewhere? Thanks.
I am quite sure that the game prepatched already.

The 'old' ver2.0 was about 12 gig where the new installation files is just over 16 gig in size.
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jaju123: I have the Enhanced Edition in my library. Just wondering, does the enhanced edition with patch download or is it just the original 'Witcher 2' and I have to get the enhanced edition patch elsewhere? Thanks.
It's the Enhanced Edition. Actually, given our high-speed download rates through the GOG.com downloader, you're probably best off downloading it from us instead of through the Witcher 2 launcher.
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Pheace: ...
First time seeing a price increase (at least for a game I'm partially interested in).

Really don't see the point of this price increase, a person can buy it somewhere else for a lower price and just activate the game here.
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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Pheace: ...
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kavazovangel: First time seeing a price increase (at least for a game I'm partially interested in).

Really don't see the point of this price increase, a person can buy it somewhere else for a lower price and just activate the game here.
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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jaju123: I have the Enhanced Edition in my library. Just wondering, does the enhanced edition with patch download or is it just the original 'Witcher 2' and I have to get the enhanced edition patch elsewhere? Thanks.
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TheEnigmaticT: It's the Enhanced Edition. Actually, given our high-speed download rates through the GOG.com downloader, you're probably best off downloading it from us instead of through the Witcher 2 launcher.
What about the people (like me) who downloaded the pre-download patch from the witcher official website? How do I upgrade that?