Game News The Witcher :: Super-Mega Fucking Awesome Edition

[Shannow]

And: The hype for the EE version was bad. Nobody really disputed that.

Uhh... Yeah they did.

K, I'm not going through that again
I might have been too egocentric there. I criticised the hype before and up to my post nobody in this thread excused it.
Until:

This is getting ridiculous.

Indeed, a developer still supporting their game almost two years after the release is indeed ridiculous

You people are all fucking crazy , you're bitching about free updates

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Some people don't realise there is a middleground between "not patching a game" and "re-releasing a game with a minor patch and lots of hype" and there is a difference between criticising patches and hype.
"Seriously", I don't see Bioware, Blizzard or others hyping every single patch and re-re-re-releasing the game.

Definitely not a matter of trying to milk the audience more -- I would love to announce our next game, but we're just not at that stage yet.

But anyway, I'm not really sure what we're expected to do when we have a patch coming that does something a lot of fans have been asking for (as the Director's Cut does)... not tell anyone? Don't worry -- we're not doing a teaser trailer, a press tour and a wicked-awesome viral campaign. It's this "it's coming" announcement and the patch. Not exactly "hype"

Now before I appologise () you need to clear some things up first: Could you simply have provided the patch online, informed everyone through a press-release (of the patch and its contents without going for "hype"-phrases like "Director's Cut") on your homepage and through the "check for updates" function of the TW loader, keep the game in the stores as it was and not need a re-rating because you weren't re-releasing...

 

[MetalCraze]

I don't see Bioware, Blizzard or others [...] re-re-re-releasing the game.

In Bioware's case that is pretty debatable.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

I don't see Bioware, Blizzard or others [...] re-re-re-releasing the game.

In Bioware's case that is pretty debatable.

 

[made]

I'm replaying the game right now and some dialogues in the Polish version are simply superb, they read perfectly and are usually voiced very well. Also, only now did I realise that in fact the Abigail situation is not clear - maybe she did

Spoiler

make Odo kill his brother by using the doll

[PENIS LOLOLOL]

? The game's miles above most other proposals by "big" studios from recent years.

I'm currently replaying it myself, just finished chapter I. I remember I sided with Abigail on my first playthrough because the villagers were the obvious "evil" choice, but when you think about it, Abigail is for from innocent herself. There is no clear evidence one way or another in the case of Odo and his brother. Abigail exploited the misery of the villagers for her business - like with the girl who killed herself - that probably makes her even worse than them from a moral standpoint.

Also, Wyzima (especially at night) is probably the most atmospheric and immersive medieval town in a computer game to date. They really nailed the mood there imo.

 

[Vandal]

Now before I appologise () you need to clear some things up first: Could you simply have provided the patch online, informed everyone through a press-release (of the patch and its contents without going for "hype"-phrases like "Director's Cut") on your homepage and through the "check for updates" function of the TW loader, keep the game in the stores as it was and not need a re-rating because you weren't re-releasing...

Nah, we wouldn't be able to release the Director's Cut content without getting that content re-rated, as it alters the game that the ESRB originally provided with an M rating. Certainly we could have just said, "here's the patch!" but especially after the release of 1.5 (which I would have rather just wrapped into a blanket Director's Cut patch or vice versa, rather than releasing them both two weeks apart) there were a lot of people going, "hey I'm going to finally reinstall this and play it"... for those people I think it's important that we at least tell them that something else is coming.

It's not an ideal situation, and in an ideal world I would have liked to see the Director's Cut content in the original Enhanced Edition release... but that didn't happen, so we're still doing what we can to support players who are either re-installing because of recent updates or just buying it for the first time.

Trust me... I can't friggin wait to announce our next game so I don't have to keep justifying another re-release

 

[MetalCraze]

Well nice job hyping the patch that you just needed to re-rate. Especially considering that everything you were hyping is a nude patch which community already made themselves. You should've also thrown the line like "perfect reaches mature" for that special extra punch.

original Enhanced Edition release

Original Enhanced Edition

 

[Gerrard]

I'm replaying the game right now and some dialogues in the Polish version are simply superb, they read perfectly and are usually voiced very well.

And when playing with English subtitles you can see that they still have at least 1/3rd of the text missing.

 

[Jasede]

It's this "it's coming" announcement and the patch.

It's this "it's coming"

it's coming

ITZ

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

I don't see Bioware, Blizzard or others [...] re-re-re-releasing the game.

In Bioware's case that is pretty debatable.

Fucking golden burn.

 

[Wyrmlord]

It's totally OK to say you are delivering the version you intended to give if you had not made the same tag to a previous attempt already.

I mean, after an Enhanced Edition that takes the Best To Perfection, a Director's Cut comes out to tell people that this was the version they intended.

Videogame developers are really really bad marketers, and know no better than to do silly stunts like doing a Star Wars cosplay at E3, use a Marilyn Manson song, and promote "tasteful sexual encounters". It's no wonder that even the best selling games are only bought by two million people; normal people don't find their intelligence respected by people as juvenile as game developers.