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

[CthuluIsSpy]

Pretty much. The bottom bit says "Geralt's going through his rebel phase". As for the top, since "chędożyć" is an old-timey word, I'd go for "Fornicate the system"

Bitch, please. "Plough the system."

Does the system have a poon and bubs? Because, you know, I totally would...

Song related

 

[MicoSelva]

Million or bust? (Roguey)

https://twitter.com/witchergame/status/597759587765346304

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt exceeds 1 MILLION pre-orders worldwide! THANK YOU! #TheWitcher #WildHunt

So, does that mean it is profitable already, 9 days before official release? I forget what the game's budget was.

 

[Echo Mirage]

15 million I think.

 

[WhiteGuts]

More like 35.

 

[Tytus]

Shut up about the downgrade already. The discussion was valid when it was fresh, months ago, now if you fucking don't like how the game looks like, just don't buy it.

Never forgive, never forget.

Million or bust? (Roguey)

https://twitter.com/witchergame/status/597759587765346304

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt exceeds 1 MILLION pre-orders worldwide! THANK YOU! #TheWitcher #WildHunt

So, does that mean it is profitable already, 9 days before official release? I forget what the game's budget was.

110 mln pln, so yeah around 35 mln petrodollars.

 

[prodigydancer]

CDPR has a great track record so far of course. But the hype pressure is off the charts this time around, reactor rectum explosion imminent.

My crystal ball is hazy but from what I can see, we're heading towards either:
a) The Witcher Scrolls 3 (best case)
or
b) Witcher Age 3 (worst case)

In any case May 19 is

 

[Makabb]

Meanwhile at CDP red

 

[Rahdulan]

CDPR has a great track record so far of course. But the hype pressure is off the charts this time around, reactor rectum explosion imminent.

My crystal ball is hazy but from what I can see, we're heading towards either:
a) The Witcher Scrolls 3 (best case)
or
b) Witcher Age 3 (worst case)

In any case May 19 is

Really, hype will kill Witcher 3 more than any actual failings made by CDPR. I just hope we're not looking at six months to a year of patches before the game is made playable with EE of some kind, especially considering they already have expansions in mind. Don't screw this up, potatoes.

 

[Outlander]

Grats Escapist and Ulminati on last week's news.

GameSpot updated its article (looks like Escapist didn't notice)

Basically Green Man Gaming CEO says CDPR outright refused to do business with them, and were forced to source their W3 keys from other CDPR approved retailers. Keys are obviously legit, CDPR are being stupid (which is not surprising of course)

Link to original article at GameSpot

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Whats the marketing budget for this game? It's really everywhere

 

[Beowulf]

Even in women magazines (not that I read any, I just ... err... know, ok?).

 

[MasPingon]

Whats the marketing budget for this game? It's really everywhere

It's about 10-12 milion $.

 

[Immortal]

Grats Escapist and Ulminati on last week's news.

GameSpot updated its article (looks like Escapist didn't notice)

Basically Green Man Gaming CEO says CDPR outright refused to do business with them, and were forced to source their W3 keys from other CDPR approved retailers. Keys are obviously legit, CDPR are being stupid (which is not surprising of course)

Link to original article at GameSpot

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.

EDIT:
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.

 

[dragonul09]

Whats the marketing budget for this game? It's really everywhere

It's about 10-12 milion $.

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.

 

[ArchAngel]

Whats the marketing budget for this game? It's really everywhere

It's about 10-12 milion $.

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.

Betsheda don't pay their developers with potatoes.

 

[PhantasmaNL]

CDPR has a great track record so far of course. But the hype pressure is off the charts this time around, reactor rectum explosion imminent.

My crystal ball is hazy but from what I can see, we're heading towards either:
a) The Witcher Scrolls 3 (best case)
or
b) Witcher Age 3 (worst case)

In any case May 19 is

Agreed, my money is on option B.

 

[Alfons]

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.

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.

 

[MasPingon]

Whats the marketing budget for this game? It's really everywhere

It's about 10-12 milion $.

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.

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 $.

 

[Perkel]

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.

 

[dragonul09]

Whats the marketing budget for this game? It's really everywhere

It's about 10-12 milion $.

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.

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".

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

This marketing bullshit eats way too much dollah

 

[made]

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

 

[Atomkilla]

Speaking of money, what a fucking waste...

 

[Clockwork Knight]

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.

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.

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.

 

[Outlander]

EDIT:
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.

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'

 

[Echo Mirage]

How much was GMG selling those keys for?