New Witcher 2 Patch Brings Free DLC
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Which, again, is better than reducing them to giblets and spare coins. Most of the women in the game could kick Geralt's shiny white ass, but they choose to seduce him and leave him with a card they can track him with.Scrumpmonkey said:
It all depends on where you stand.
Meh, still waiting for the patch that completely fix the mousesmoothness problem. Messing with the ini. file doesn't solve every menu like it should. Seriously it keeps me from playing the fucking game since it feels like I'm playing a bad console port instead of a game that's still a PC-exclusive.
I herald CD project for focusing on the PC in times like these but when I can play multiplattform-games that happens to be ports, that both plays and feels better with a mouse and keyboard then Witcher 2, then all the free dlc in the world won't save them from the fact that they made a crappy game for those who like to use the M & K combination when playing on their PC's.
I herald CD project for focusing on the PC in times like these but when I can play multiplattform-games that happens to be ports, that both plays and feels better with a mouse and keyboard then Witcher 2, then all the free dlc in the world won't save them from the fact that they made a crappy game for those who like to use the M & K combination when playing on their PC's.
Very neat, so rare to find good community support.
I'll probably go back to it again now... but god damn the bloody controls.
I'll probably go back to it again now... but god damn the bloody controls.
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it is stupidity but its stupidity on the gamers part not activision's, they sold a fuck ton of that game so its rather predictable they would make some money even if only 15% of the player base bought it, the real stupidity comes from other games doing it like homefront, its multi sounds interesting but it doest have the player base to really shoulder a map pack, at best they split a good sized community, at worst they just make an already barren multi game more soArBeater said:
Wow, this was a ***** to patch. I have the Gog version, and none of the patches worked. Seems for Gog you first need to download the 1.1 patch from the Gog website and apply it manually, then let the launcher update 1.1 to 1.2, and THEN use the 1.2->1.3 patch from thewitcher.com to finally update it.
I freakin' love Good Old Games, but patching is not something they have figured out well yet.
I freakin' love Good Old Games, but patching is not something they have figured out well yet.
WTF? CDProjekt are actually fixing issues in their game based on feedback? And throwing in free DLC to sweeten the deal? Don't they know they need to charge $15 dollars for map packs and have David Gaider defend their design mistakes on the forums? If they keep giving out nice things, their customers might get ideas!
Why the fuck do gamers feel so bloody entitled to free post-release content?[/quote]
Because often developers now (at least seem to) cut content out of the main game, or release a very poor main game and try to push DLC out. It's especially annoying when it's release day DLC, like with Dragon Age 2.. which was horrible enough without cutting content.
Because often developers now (at least seem to) cut content out of the main game, or release a very poor main game and try to push DLC out. It's especially annoying when it's release day DLC, like with Dragon Age 2.. which was horrible enough without cutting content.
Some of us remember when extra maps, gameplay modes, and things of that nature were free add-ons that developers released as goodwill gestures to their fans, and $15 could buy you a full-on expansion pack. And there was a good reason for that: Those were games released on PCs, where fans could create and release just all sorts of free content, total conversions, weapon packs, skins, balance mods, you name it - charging for content that could be freely replicated only made sense if you were making it fairly substantial and with a higher production quality than what the fans were making, hence expansion packs. The idea that you could charge $15 just for a package of 4 or so maps was unthinkably ludicrous.ArBeater said:
But then consoles got internet connections and became exponentially more popular, while notably lacking support for user-created content, and thus the practice of charging for the inconsequential things that used to be free was born! Activision took that further by charging just way too much for map packs, and the overwhelming popularity of the Call of Duty franchise combined with the overwhelming gullibilty/disposable income of the audience has solidified that truly absurd price point in the mind of consumers now.
It's not about developers wanting to make money for their work, I don't think anyone is going to argue that they shouldn't, it's that they're charging for stuff that would absolutely be free if the artificial restrictions of the platform were not walling them off from their competition; thanks to the walled off nature of consoles, our notions of what content is worth are all skewed out of whack.
CD Project RED gets this, and we're happy because we see them taking the decidedly old-school approach of using DLC as public relations overtures instead of money trees, not because we're overly entitled jackasses who demand they slave away making new stuff for us for free.
Yeah, I don't know what they were thinking. This is clearly madness!Kahunaburger said:
Good god, they might just make another one! And then maybe an expansion pack as well!Kahunaburger said: