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The Witcher 3 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Discussion in 'CD Projekt Red' started by Bruticis, Feb 5, 2013.

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  1. Immortal Arcane

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    I might believe that.. if this wasn't the Bajillionth time this happened on GMG.. Hey look the game costs 12.99 and the default locale is Russian, seems legit!
    I know they aren't a true reseller of keys (so not completely shady) but I am pretty sure they do locale swaps of games to get cheaper prices.

    https://forums.playfire.com/gmg/thread/116728
    http://www.gamegrin.com/news/green-man-gaming-faulty-steam-keys-for-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare/

    If you want to save shekals and risk it with their customer support, go for it. I can't be fucked to deal with the run around.

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    CRPojektRED is being pretty smart.. They won't cut out Origin (lol) or Steam, those sources are too lucrative. If they could have it their way though, every single copy would be bought at full price off GoG.

    Why would they enable a company like GmG to buy 50 000 reduced price copies and sell them? Fuck that lol.
     
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  2. dragonul09 Arcane Edgy

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    Amazing what this studio has accomplished with such a ''small'' budget for a AAA gaem,then you have bethseda who spends 50-60 milions on their games and they can't even afford more than 4-5 voice actors for their game or a proper engine,fucking pathetic if you ask me.
     
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  3. ArchAngel Arcane

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    Betsheda don't pay their developers with potatoes.
     
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  4. PhantasmaNL Arcane Patron

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    Agreed, my money is on option B.
     
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  5. Alfons Prophet

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    Bethesda is the retard of the development world. You can give a retard a billion dollars, but he's still a retard and that's the way he spends his money...like a fucking retard.
     
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  6. MasPingon Arcane

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    Dude, 10-12 mln $ of MARKETING budget. I don't know what overal game budget is, but it's about 5 times bigger. It's not GTA5 budget but it's definitely not "small". CDP is not eastern europe underdogs anymore, soo please stop with this "OMG, it's amazing what they did with such a small amount of cash". Even Witcher 1 budget was about 10 mln $.
     
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  7. Perkel Arcane

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    Yeah looks like game will sell 6mln+ in its lifetime or more. There are only few games that managed to do preorders at this level. Though i think they count GPU bundles as well.
     
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  8. dragonul09 Arcane Edgy

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    Seems like the total budget is 40 mils,15 mils for dev and 25m for marketing.

    This marketing bullshit eats way too much dollah:argh:
     
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  9. made Arcane

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    Budget prolly breaks down like this:
    75% - Charles Dance
    20% - marketing & PR
    5% - salary for CDP suits and imported foreign designers
    <0.00001% - poor polaks who actually built the game in cdpr's dungeons
     
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  10. Atomkilla Arcane

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    Speaking of money, what a fucking waste...

     
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  11. Clockwork Knight Arcane

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    More like the idiot savant of the dev world. They will turn that billion dollars into a trillion but if you asked, they have no idea how it happened.
     
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  12. Outlander Custom Tags Are For Fags. Patron

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    That's all fine and dandy and within their rights, but they shouldn't go on record saying 'lol don't but from GMG those keys are illegal lol'
     
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  13. Echo Mirage Arcane

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    How much was GMG selling those keys for?
     
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  14. Infinitron I post news Patron

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    #6714
    Bethesda is a relatively small developer, and the budgets of their games are actually known to be relatively low for an American developer (although they spend a shitton on marketing which compensates for that).

    But of course they can't compete with Polish salaries.
     
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  15. DeepOcean Arcane

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    2D graphics still win downgraded 3D next gen, even on a shitty game.
     
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  16. Gerrard Arcane

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    CDPR already pretty much reached the western budgets and spending money on stupid shit (famous voice actors) so I think we can safely assume that it will be all downhill from now.
     
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  17. Mrowak Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    You haven't even played the game yet. It's a hype train all over again.
     
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  18. Ang Novice

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  19. Nithrakis Novice

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  20. Makabb Arcane Shitposter Bethestard

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    but where is pc gameplay, wanna see those ultra graphix
     
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  21. ArchAngel Arcane

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    No ultra graphics. They got one same build for all 3 platforms.
     
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  22. vonAchdorf Prestigious Gentleman Arcane

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    Modders will have to bring tha graphics back on par with TW2.
     
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  23. ZagorTeNej Arcane

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    Predicting it will be much better than (unmodded) Skyrim is hardly embracing the hype, it's just common sense.
     
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  24. dragonul09 Arcane Edgy

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    I'm talking in general,they always had a ''small'' budget and what they accomplished with those money is quite impressive for a no name studio that came from the potato land.It's pretty pathetic when you compare them with Bethesda,EA that pours up to 100 mil on their games and the results are mediocre as fuck.
     
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  25. odrzut Arbiter

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    Average yearly gamedev salary in Poland: 20 000 USD. Outside Warsaw you can hire decent people with fresh M.A. in CS for 10 000 USD per year.

    Average yearly gamedev salary in USA: 60 000 USD.


    TBH I'm wondering why people still make games in USA.
     
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