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<span class="bold">[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_witcher_2]The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, the RPG Game of the Year 2011, gets a free update to Enhanced Edition, that packs a bigger punch than any DLC you’ll never have to pay for.

In case you’ve been living under a rock and have never heard about The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, it is “One of the best role-playing games in years”, “One of the most memorable and best written fantasy video games you'll ever play”, an RPG “You can't afford to miss”, because it “Redefines expectations for an entire genre”. Today, the final definitive version of the game is made available as a free update jam-packed with new features, upgrades, and extras.

To celebrate The Witcher 2’s glorious return we’re offering the game with a 15% discount off the full Enhanced Edition price of $49.99, so it’s $42.49 for the next three weeks. This special promo lasts until 7 May 2012 23:59 Central European Summer Time. Additionally, The first game in the series, The Witcher Enhanced Edition, will be available for 50% off (that’s just $4.99!) until 23 April 2012 at 23.59 Central European Summer Time.

The Enhanced Edition of The Witcher 2 features new locations, like the underground system of chambers beneath Loc Muine and a temperate forest in the Loc Muine mountains. A batch of new characters is introduced to the Witcher storyline. All new cinematics and cut scenes expand upon the story, including a new three and a half minute pre-rendered cinematic depicting the assassination of King Demavend of Aedirn, created by BAFTA Award winner and Academy Award nominee Tomasz Baginski.

In additon to more than 4 hours of extra gameplay, improved graphics, new characters, locations, quests, 36 minutes of new cinematics, GOG.com has added the Witcher comic book, new game map, game guide, manual, and soundtrack to your free goodies list, simply because we love you.

Note: This upgrade is available to everyone who has bought The Witcher 2, not just folks who bought it from GOG.com. The upgrade will be free to download from now until a few days after the apocalypse, and is available through the in-game launcher. Note that for faster connections and better error checking, we strongly recommend that you download your new copy of the Enhanced Edition through the GOG.com downloader

In addition to all of this great stuff, we're also running a contest here on GOG.com! It's been a long time since our last fun contest, so we thought we'd challenge you to make a cool, clever, or humorous poster or t-shirt design about The Witcher, Geralt, or anything related to the setting that you think would look great on your wall or your self. This contest will be open all week (until 23.59 Central European Summer Time--which 17.59 Eastern Daylight Time) for you to come up with something clever and amaze us all. Attach your entry to your post--or else post it on an image sharing service and link to it in your post. Once the contest is over, the GOG.com team will look at your entries and pick our favorites to receive a free game of the artists' choice from our catalog!

Spread the word around and show us what you've got in a post on this thread! Happy 'Shooping!
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tfishell: I am disappoint. :(
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wormholewizards: Give credit where it's due, this game was released at midnight Poland time, around 10 - 11 PM (if i'm not mistaken). That still not included the amount of time they spent to fixed the backup function and server afterward. They worked overtime just because of this grand release, i'm sure Enigmatic still in his bed.
That I did not know. Good job guys! (Still, there's no way around the fact that personally I was looking forward to another old release. It's one of the reasons I bother living on Tues. and Thurs. ;)
well, it didnt like the part that i DL'd last night and have to start from scratch apparently.

with an update that size a pausable downloader would have been nice (i didnt see anything about 1) Cause of that I have wasted 5GB of a limited DL allowance.

Disclaimer: If there was an official way (not torrented files) of doing it in parts or a pausable thing like the GOG downloader (which didnt seem to want to do anything even after I updated it) the my bad
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marcusmaximus: I find it off putting that they raised the price of the game and trying to make it sound like it is a deal even if it comes with a bunch of extras and more hours of gameplay.
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theadam: If you pay them early you get the free update. They have added new content (it must have been a lot of work) and all the early adopters get it for free. New customers have to pay a slightly higher price if they didn't support the developer earlier, that's how I see it. They paying more and getting more.
That does make sense BUT I think they should have told people they were going to raise the price for new comers for the PC version if they didn't buy it before today.
I actually liked the previous digital shelf cover more :O
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marcusmaximus: BUT I think they should have told people they were going to raise the price for new comers for the PC version if they didn't buy it before today.
Ideally they should've told it during the last Witcher 2 sale. :)
Post edited April 17, 2012 by grviper
ok ignore my previous comment, it went from a 10GB download to a 5.54 and jumped straight to Patch-28.bin
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tfishell: That I did not know. Good job guys! (Still, there's no way around the fact that personally I was looking forward to another old release. It's one of the reasons I bother living on Tues. and Thurs. ;)
Actually, we have another "old" release tomorrow. From 1998 to be exact.
discordiac, GIMME THAT NAO!
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tfishell: That I did not know. Good job guys! (Still, there's no way around the fact that personally I was looking forward to another old release. It's one of the reasons I bother living on Tues. and Thurs. ;)
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discordiac: Actually, we have another "old" release tomorrow. From 1998 to be exact.
Super-gusta. Thank you. :D
That's more like it ^_^
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tfishell: That I did not know. Good job guys! (Still, there's no way around the fact that personally I was looking forward to another old release. It's one of the reasons I bother living on Tues. and Thurs. ;)
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discordiac: Actually, we have another "old" release tomorrow. From 1998 to be exact.
OK. Only about 1100 DOS/Windows games were published in 1998 according to Moby Games.
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/1998/dos/ (DOS = 206)
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/1998/win3x/ (Win3x = 73)
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/1998/windows/ (Windows = 813)
And some are already on GOG, so it shouldn't be too hard to guess which one will be tomorrow's. GUESS AWAY!
Post edited April 17, 2012 by mrkgnao
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mrkgnao: it shouldn't be too hard to guess which one will be tomorrow's. GUESS AWAY!
Let's make a wild guess - Half Life. :)
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theadam: They don't sell Steam codes. Steam doesn't sell GOG codes. Those are separate services and GOG is just awesome to offer their backup for free anyway. The way I see this it's a reason to support them, not Steam :)
Because using this to have countless people from another service sign up with your own service is not self-serving at all ;)

It's a nice gesture of course but this is obviously marketing to attract more customers to GOG, and getting people to sign up is one of the biggest steps. This works perfect for them.

It's the same thing EA's doing by allowing people to sign up their EA games from other retailers at Origin. EA deserves your support too ;)
Post edited April 17, 2012 by Pheace
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mrkgnao: it shouldn't be too hard to guess which one will be tomorrow's. GUESS AWAY!
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Nightfall87: Let's make a wild guess - Half Life. :)
OK, why not:
- StarCraft
- Diablo + Hellfire
- Grim Fandango
Can anyone confirm if the Witcher 2 installer has been updated to the Enhanced Edition version yet? I figure it's probably faster in the long run to just get the new installer and back that up, instead of just extra patches.