CD Projekt: "Let's Treat Gamers as Grown-ups"

[ZephrC]

On the one hand WOOO! Intelligent business practices yay!

On the other hand I kinda despise most things described as "realistic and brutal". That's not a good combination, in my opinion. And even if it were, most of the time they're lying about the first point anyway. Plus holy crap collectible cards for sexing? That's a bit much, isn't it?

So yeah, I certainly wouldn't pirate the games, even I were still into that, but I haven't brought myself to purchase them yet, either. I don't know if I will.

Still, props for the consumer respect thing.

 

[johnnnny guitar]

Ok that's it CD projekt your my Favourite videogame company I can't deny it any longer, your games are great and polished your stance on DRM,DLC and International Game pricing are the best in the business and you treat gamers like fellow gamers.

Thank You CD projekt and to show my gratitude Cyberpunk will be a day one purchase for me and I have so little money that very few games get day one purchase but I will save up my pennies and buy it.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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I have no problem playing games with a male lead (If I did I would miss out on quite a lot) My issue is with the pandering at play in The Witcher. It was just nasty and I'm worried that if they have another male only protagonist it will be the same problem.

I don't have a problem with sex in games but that game treated women like they were achievements to be collected or something and of course they all wanted to sleep with him. It was like some sort of terrible Gary Stu fanfiction.

I have no idea if The Witcher 2 was any better as I haven't played it.

 

[Amaror]

As the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than with draconian DRM.

With honey, you say?

They sure do lure in horny men and women with shameless objectification (literally) "treat us like adults."

Oh come on. On every single news about cd project there's at least one person going
"But... But .... SEXISTS!"
And showing the collectable The Witcher Sex cards.
Ok, we all agree that the collectable sex cards were a stupid idea, hell, CD Project Red knows that the collectable Sex cards were a stupid idea.
But can't we just let that one thing in an otherwise great game go?
Yes you always play Geralt in the Witcher games, but you can't really change the main character gender when your in a fixed story. And both the Witcher games always had strong females, who were just as capable and in most cases, even more capable than the male ones.

Examples?

And of course:

 

[Meight08]

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I fully respect their sentiment about the DLC but if they have a similarly sexist setting in Lords of the Fallen I will be dis be appoint.

Yeah because in medieval times woman were treated with respect /sarcasm

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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I fully respect their sentiment about the DLC but if they have a similarly sexist setting in Lords of the Fallen I will be dis be appoint.

Yeah because in medieval times woman were treated with respect /sarcasm

Yeah because in medieval times magic and monsters existed....but sexism is necessary for realism!!! -.-

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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You are getting the wrong idea of what we said.

No one said it was sexist because you can only play a guy. (Hell I love Half Life, Metro 2033, Deus Ex, Bioshock, The Zelda Series, Mario etc to infinitum) It's sexist because it objectifies women and reads like some sort of male fantasy fanfiction. I think whoever wrote The Witcher books must not have had many lady friends...or must have been locked in the attic for a year or something.

I'd say the same about Stephanie Meyer

 

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I have no idea if The Witcher 2 was any better as I haven't played it.

It is. The sex scenes are more gratuitous, but also much better handled and less numerous. They also abandoned that silly card collecting nonsense.

 

[Amaror]

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Ok, first of all show me one advertisement of the Witcher games, advertising the game with boobs and sex. Please, just one.
I didn't find any, not on the cover or the back of any of the two boxes.
It was in the game sure, but they did NOT advertise the game with it.
And no in the Witcher world the woman are not all whores. They all seem really willing to sleep with Geralt, but that's because he's a Witcher. Witchers are sterile, therefore the only way a woman can have sex in the Witcher world, without the fear of becoming pregnant is having sex with a witcher.
And have you even played the games? Or just read about them?
Because, yes, there were some situations which could be counted down to "Wanna have sex?" "Sure".
Then there were the romances with triss or shani, which were more deep and had a good story.
And then there's The Witcher 2. It has the same brutal world but much less "card collecting". When you get to have sex (It's not very often) it completely fits the situation.
So please play the goddamn games before you scream "Sexists!" aroundit'

 

[Meight08]

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I fully respect their sentiment about the DLC but if they have a similarly sexist setting in Lords of the Fallen I will be dis be appoint.

Yeah because in medieval times woman were treated with respect /sarcasm

Yeah because in medieval times magic and monsters existed....but sexism is necessary for realism!!! -.-

It's not necessary for realism it's part of the world the author created so stop being such a feminazi.

 

[DementedSheep]

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I fully respect their sentiment about the DLC but if they have a similarly sexist setting in Lords of the Fallen I will be dis be appoint.

Yeah because in medieval times woman were treated with respect /sarcasm

And alchemy totally gives you magical powers. And people can heal over night from swords to the face. And magic exists.

But hey, it's okay to be totally unrealistic, just not when it comes to offering women an equally enjoyable experience to men, then you have to put your foot down.

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I fully respect their sentiment about the DLC but if they have a similarly sexist setting in Lords of the Fallen I will be dis be appoint.

Yeah because in medieval times woman were treated with respect /sarcasm

Yeah because in medieval times magic and monsters existed....but sexism is necessary for realism!!! -.-

It also has tons of racism, superstition, classism, people dying of things like consumption (tuberculosis) and other nasty things you don?t find in the typical nice sword and sorcery fantasy setting. The more magical elements playing off the more "realistic" elements is a major point in the Witcher series.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'm not getting the wrong idea, you said a bunch of shit that just reinforces the notion that you played 2 minutes of The Witcher and never touched a CDProjekt game again.

Err yes you are because you said that what we were saying was that having a male protagonist makes a game sexist... thats not what we were saying at all. I played up to the part with the naked green woman then gave up in disgust as yet another character tried to hump Geralts leg.

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I fully respect their sentiment about the DLC but if they have a similarly sexist setting in Lords of the Fallen I will be dis be appoint.

Yeah because in medieval times woman were treated with respect /sarcasm

Yeah because in medieval times magic and monsters existed....but sexism is necessary for realism!!! -.-

It's not necessary for realism it's part of the world the author created so stop being such a feminazi.

Yeah but if they do it again in their new RPG I won't be buying it as they no longer have the excuse of source material. I'm not stopping you from buying it am I.

 

[gibboss28]

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You are getting the wrong idea of what we said.

No one said it was sexist because you can only play a guy. (Hell I love Half Life, Metro 2033, Deus Ex, Bioshock, The Zelda Series, Mario etc to infinitum) It's sexist because it objectifies women and reads like some sort of male fantasy fanfiction. I think whoever wrote The Witcher books must not have had many lady friends...or must have been locked in the attic for a year or something.

I'd say the same about Stephanie Meyer

...you've not actually read any of the books the Witcher is based on, have you?

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

And thus, the messiahs of games were born...

OT: Personally I didn't enjoy The Witcher 2, but since they released the remastered version, I think I'm more than willing to pick that up when I have some spare cash. These guys... They just get it, don't they? They perfectly understand exactly what the community wants, and needs. And the comment about DLC and expansion packs damn near had me applauding to my monitor.