Xbox One Surprises Witcher Dev, Skips Poland At Launch

[grimallq]

They're doing it again. X360 was available for years here in Poland before Microsoft benevolently gave us full LIVE support. Before that we had a multiplayer oriented console with no online support,yeah.

PC multiplayer games that relied on Games for Windows LIVE (like Dawn of War II or Gears of War) came out here with detailed instruction in their manuals on how to set up LIVE accounts in supported countries to circumvent LIVE's regional IP blockade.

The funny thing about it? GFWL had a fully working polish GUI, it detected that you were playing from Poland and worked fine (for a given definition of "fine"). You just couldn't create a working polish account on PC.

And now history repeats itself. At least they won't be trying to sell us an incomplete console from the start.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

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Get your **** together Microbone, FFS. Stop embarrassing yourself for 5 seconds. Holy crap, this is painful to read.

 

[Caiphus]

I (a Pole, so I'm "out of luck" as well) play online on both PC and console, and believe me when I say there's a lot of gamers out there, who actually do have money for that stuff.

Absolutely. Back when I played WoW in England, about a quarter of our guild was Polish.
They were usually insane, granted, but they definitely played video games.

Edit: Vaerna, if you're out there, I'm talking about you. You psychopath.

 

[Killclaw Kilrathi]

I think Polish gamers will speak out loud. From my perspective, it's a sad situation.

They probably won't care. That's my prediction.

Considering PC is way bigger in europe, you are probably right.

The weird thing about that is most PC gaming rigs use Windows, another Microsoft product. I know that won't sway them in any way, it just gives everything a weird, ironic ring to it when Microsoft wouldn't cater to countries with primarily PC gamers.

 

[SecondPrize]

Is this the same situation or has the next generation become more restricted?

There won't be any on-line play for you and your countrymen. At all. (But you are still to connect to the Xbox Live, but no multi-player stuff and all that jazz)

Wait... So, the offline content won't check my location, but the online will ?

Damn Microsoft, you are making piracy a little too compelling.

You won't get to play, at all, it seems like. It's not a question of having access to Live so you can play multiplayer, it's a question of your machine having access so it can perform it's daily check-in and reset the timer on disabling the playing games function entirely. The xbone's natural state is to not allow the playing of games, but the daily connection holds this off for 24 hours. If they're saying you won't have Live support, I would prepare for the likelihood that you wouldn't be able to play games at all, online or offline.

 

[wearesoneutralthatithurts]

xbone-department by microsoft is led by idiotic people and dickheads?

surprise, surprise.

I dont get it-they limit their income. why sell a console which doesnt work? duh. and-well y<ou NEED gold to user that console? it doenst work with silver?

what.the funk?

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I would say that CD Projekt should pull Witcher from Xbone just because of this, but I'm sure that they and Microsoft have some legally binding contract bullshit that would prevent them from screwing over Microsoft just because Microsoft screwed over their home country.

Still, this is pretty depressing. I can't imagine CD Projekt cooperating further with Microsoft unless Microsoft practically gives them a tanker full of money.

 

[The White Hunter]

I think Polish gamers will speak out loud. From my perspective, it's a sad situation.

They probably won't care. That's my prediction.

Considering PC is way bigger in europe, you are probably right.

....Really?

This is a serious question. How do you know this?

PC gaming and PlayStation are pretty big on the European mainland compared to Xbox. Couldn't tell you why, they just kind of are. I'll drag up some figures later on when I can be bothered to find them.

OT: I imagine polish gamers will be buying PS4's or using their PC then. In fact every polish person I know has gamed on PC...

 

[Seracen]

Wow...really M$...really? I almost don't want to believe that they can be to careless and callous...but they've proven me wrong again and again.

 

[Norrdicus]

Still, this is pretty depressing. I can't imagine CD Projekt cooperating further with Microsoft unless Microsoft practically gives them a tanker full of money.

Yeah, it's too late to do anything with the Witcher 3, but Cyberpunk 2077 being a 2015 title, CDProjekt could (not "will", but "could") be less inclined to make an Xbone version of it because from the looks of things, the market for that console won't be super big even in the US.

CDProjekt's initial decision to make a 360 version of TW2 might have been influenced by their desire to really reach the US market, which was largely 360 territory this gen, plus the ease of development compared to PS3, of course

 

[Hazy]

My prediction is that 99% of the Witcher community will be playing The Witcher 3 on a PC, just like the others.

 

[Wolf Hagen]

Poland cannot into X Bone? D:

Well. I somehow see the year 2012 - 2013 becoming the dark ages of M$.

Have fun pissing of 2/3 of your userbase worldwide, and now excluding regions within Europe, that might have a better infrastructure then some US Countys (in case of Telecommunications it probably would work for Poland).

So yeah. I think only the core demographic of Spunkgargleweewee players and such will be heading towards the stores to get their overprized TV extention.

Have fun sinking M$!^^

Maybe Balmer gets a hearth attack by the end of the year, because of all the fail.

 

[Owlslayer]

Well, that´s not very nice at all. A heads-up would have been lovely for the devs, indeed.
Also, I´m really looking forward to the Witcher 3. On the PC. Since, well, I´m more of a PC gamer. And even if I´d be more of a console guy, I´m guessing my country would be pretty back on the list of countries that should have Xbox Live.

 

[sageoftruth]

To quote Team Four Star,
"Microsoft, are you good at digging holes....? I mean aside from the one you just dug yourself into?