Today, further addressing questions of PC piracy, sales and the impetus to recreate The Witcher for consoles, GameCyte received what could practically be considered a letter from CD Projekt CEO and co-founder Michal Kicinski himself.
Did you know the Enhanced Edition cost US $1 million to produce? That it has shipped 300,000 copies? That CD Projekt has sworn not to use internet-activated DRM? All that, some valuable opinions and several shameless plugs for GOG await you in Kicinski's email.
Bungie and CDPR on the creative process behind new Destiny 2: Season of the Wish gear, launching today.
CD Projekt RED's franchises, The Witcher and Cyberpunk, have sold a combined 80 million copies across all PC and console platforms in worldwide regions.
You can grab a free copy of The Witcher Enhanced Edition for a limited time.
They should enhance it again to get rid of the many many remaining bugs and add gamepad support.
GoG rocks, just got Fallout myself.
Consumer-facing philosophies like these, not just sales prowess, are what made Michal and Marcin entrepreneurs of the year in Poland.
TBH these days I'm looking more and more towards little guys (compared to western powerhouses like EA) for the really great original IP games and the after release support.
They tend to be far more worried about the customer and are willing to fix problems and communicate with the community. I could never see EA or someone reworking and re-releasing a game like CDProjekt did. Valve is another company that seems to follow this customer centered strategy.
All the issues with GTA4 on PC and the R* devs blaming the customer and adding all the junk DRM just backs up this belief for me.
Also GoG.com is wicked. Picked up Fallout 1 and 2 right away and and played em... would never of gotten to do that unless I spent a ton of money on Ebay.