The fact that people can play a pirated version before I can play my gog version is a dead issue for me...Firstly most things that people get free or 'handed to them' are more likely to take it for granted and thus get bored with it quickly, but the people on here who bought the game will more likely have an appreciation of the witcher frachise, CDProjekt and their values - meaning a more fulfilling experience in the game and knowing you supported a company the does not trample on their customers loyalty just to mildly annoy the pirates for couple of days.

sorry to rant

May i add that console games are also pirated, sometimes 2 weeks in advance! And now with the ps3 wide open, the piracy rate is pretty high. I mean you just need a usb stick!

Yeah, xbox games are released really really fast, weeks before official date

Yeh your right i never understood the whole PC Pirating go on usenet NZBMATRIX there are miles more console game copies than PC.

Seen a skidrow release, supposedly. I know it is to happen but man is it annoying to be "taunted" by someone I know.

As if I really care he's got a day head start. I had to remind him how I unlocked Shogun 2 earlier than him and how much of a hissy fit he made. Some people eh?

I know what you mean. Almost all of my friends pirate like everything. Good thing is they know my views on the matter and don't tend to gloat and act like assholes.

I started playing The Witcher 1 again and if Geralt were in this world,

this is what Geralt would do to those pirates. =p

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Well ya could be wrong if Geralt was in this world then the pirates would be the scoia tael and he could well take there side :P.

Unless the pirates were part of the Salamandra organisation. ;)

yeah that shit fucks me up
i buy the game and cant play it because i must go to work tomorow when the download will be finished

Mmmm the plot thickens then that means your Dandelion lol.

This is one of those threads that really doesn't need to exist but here's my take on the whole situation. I am by no means innocent of pirating a slew of games, like most of my friends, that said the primary reason myelf and teh large majority of my firneds have done so is becaue the Gaming market has been labotomized adn nerfed into oblivion, where a "long lasting" game has maybe 40 hours of real game play, and is often a bad port from a console or soemthign designed for both simultaneously and thuse been designed for the lowest common denomintor, that being the console.

The primary reason piracy is so blatantly commonplaceis that because PC games are targeted at the same audience as cosnole gamers that games are pieces substandard fecal matter and not worth the $70 shelf prices. Once a title comes along that is worth the sticker price we as a group usually purchase iten masse. If a game has easily 100+ hours of gameplay, good humour, in depth gameplay and varied yet smooth control schemes then it will sell in numbers that truly make the piracy irrelivent.

Lesson make a game worthwhile paying for and it will sell, but don't waste time making dumbed down games that are easily played on consoles.

Very sad, but true. Let's hope the pirated don't get the fist patch that will be released shortly. But somhow I doubt that. :-(

bring back the days of games made on pcs with the pc in mind and the large cardboard game box with jewel cd case inside and a manual so think it had a secondary use as self defence weapon....are the 90s

i remember games being more challenging then too..but heard that w2 is catching people out so great.

Indeed sad. Crack is out and people are already playing it :(