Witcher 2 Surpasses 250,000 Paid Digital Downloads
Witcher 2 Surpasses 250,000 Paid Digital Downloads
Posted 11/11/2011 at 11:21am
| by Brad Chacos
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Skyrim may be the big budget game on everyone’s minds today, but it isn’t the only kick-ass RPG that was released this year. We found a lot of things to like in The Witcher 2 when we reviewed it back in June, and hey, it’s even DRM free! (Unless you buy it on Steam, of course.) While other publishers would have you believe that ditching digital protection is akin to asking for pirates to pillage games, CD Projekt has announced that The Witcher 2 has sold over a quarter million digital copies.
The bulk of those sales are over Steam, Softpedia reports, with 195,000 sales racked up on Valve’s distribution service. CD Projekt’s own Good Old Games service accounted for another 35,000 sales, while other digital stores contributed another 10,000 downloads.
“The digital sales of The Witcher 2 have exceeded our expectations,” CD Projekt’s Marcin Iwiński says. “We are even more pleased that our own platform GOG.com had such a great share in the Witcher’s success.”
The company announced at the end of August that The Witcher 2 was about to pass 1 million sales, a milestone that has surely fallen by now. Not too shabby for a PC-exclusive RPG. Of course, CD Projekt is now hard at work developing an Xbox 360 port of the title, so the “PC-exclusive” disclaimer will have to be retired before long -- but PC gamers will continue to have access to totally free DLC, something console gamers can't claim.
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RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS
December 14, 2011 at 4:22pm
I remember the first game would have been amazing, if not for the bugs and clunky interface. Reviews kinda kept me away, but I thought they nearly remade it some time after the initial release. Or maybe it was a community patch of some sort?
Is this one buggy?
Ghok
December 15, 2011 at 12:26am
I just recently bought the first one, and I'm playing the Director's Cut Enhanced Version. So yeah, it was remade. It's supposed to have improved the game a lot.
I'm really enjoying it. It was obviously made only with the PC in mind, and you can't say that about most games these days. It is missing a lot the things I dislike about ports and modern games (such as heavy reliance on autosave, "safe" subject matter, and simple controls).
TsunamiZ
November 11, 2011 at 1:45pm
Witcher 2 2.0: Keyboard input lag! Example, moving with WASD has a 1 second lag with every input. Also, mouse lag in menus even when playing! I'm getting smooth frame rate performance, so this must be a game bug. I don't have these problems with other games on my system. Any fix for these?
BTW: I'm playing on "high" settings but same problem even if I set on "low".
Brad Chacos
November 11, 2011 at 11:48am
True, very true, but I meant it more along the lines of "Supplying DRM-free games doesn't completely kill off all sales". Sales from GOG.com and retail copies don't have DRM, and it hasn't kept the game from selling. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough
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