Did they mention anything about importing saves? Cause I never finished the first Witcher. I can't seem to get around finishing the 2nd Act, since the pacing seems so slow.

You can use the save game market on TW2 site.

You can import a save if you want to, but it is not necessary to follow the new story; I believe you will be given a choice to input some parameters a the beginning of the game in the absence of a W1 save... anyway, I am more excited about the 4 different prologues and 16 different endings than importing an old save... even though I am currently replaying W1 to get said save

You got to give it to CDProject and the support to their consumers. Not only are they releasing the game with no DRM, they just announced they are removing Geo-IP from their servers, so there will be no region restrictions when buying the game.

Thank you both of you. Also SystemShock, I admire CDProjekt even more when they announced http://kotaku.com/5801811/all-witcher-2-dlc-will-be-free-developer-assures. :celebration:

Yep, I went the same route, quite nice Looking forward to play the game a bit, even taken wednesday - friday off work so I will be able to play lots next week

Woke up and found a pack of Witcher playing cards on the ground. Early Christmas Day!
And there I was, wondering why there was a small booklet about dice and card games in the pack. ^_^

That's worth a few respect points. After they lost so many when going on about how bad DRM is and it only hurting the customer, and then including it on their own game. :meh:

If you are talking about W1, that wasn't CDProjekt's fault, you can blame that on Atari, and eventually they released a patch that removed DRM.
This time around, yes, W2's retail version has DRM, and Steam, well, Steam, but the GOG download is DRM free, so they are given the consumer a choice from the start. The registration part for patches and free DLC I don't think is horrible, considering we will be getting free DLC, and the registration is just a key entry. I am very impressed with GOG, overall.

I am hoping W2 is a big critical and financial success not only because I love the franchise and the very European flavor it brings to gaming, but because it will show the likes of EA and Bethesda that you don't have to inconvenience your patrons in a futile effort to curve that which can't be curved, i.e., thieves playing your game without paying for it.

And who knows... no DRM may actually curve that by preventing the "pride" hacker: you know, the one who breaks the code just because it is there, and distributes the game because he/she thinks is cool to do so.

I know I am just going to love this game. Come on! Muay Thai style fighting? Superman sword blows? What's not to love?

Wishful thinking. It would be nice, but hackers are just a fact of life anymore.

Yes, I was talking about TW2. And no, it's not a thing of choice - they were going on about DRM, how it hurts only those who legally purchase, and that they think it's a bad choice for anyone to include it. And then they use friggin' Securom - even on the version they don't publish under another banner. It just. Doesn't. Make. Sense.

They did it because they didn't want the game to be leaked early. GoG doesn't have the DRM because they have 100% assurance that version won't be leaked.

I heard they were going to remove the DRM in a patch after release anyways.

Too little, too late, unfortunately.

Yep, I bought the game from GOG for exactly this reason, I didn't want any DRM

And they said on the GOG forum that eventually the GOG release will be replaced with an "ultimate release" that includes all the patches and DLCs, free of DRM. But I guess it will take a year or two before that happens, but then the CD-key won't be needed either.

It doesn't hinder the game from being leaked early. Just from being cracked before. I agree that you need to do something against first day (or even pre-release) piracy, since those are the biggest ones, but it doesn't change that they were, well, luring us in with false promises.


Yes, but that will likely be after some months, just like last time.

I went the DRM free route (GOG) also :celebration:

Not really... if a hacker has nothing to hack... I am talking about the ones who do it just for the "glory" of saying "I hacked it" and the "coolness" factor of distributing the game via torrents or P2Ps or repositories.

Then a non-hacker would just upload the game directly to the internet. Pirates don't really care about who cracked it, they just care that they get the game for free.

What do you mean is not a matter of choice? The version you download from GOG has no DRM. So you have the choice of getting a version without DRM. They never said (as far as I know) that none of the versions were going to be DRM free; just that the GOG version will be. It is definitely better than no choice at all, like with FNV.

I didn't say it was going to eliminate piracy. Nothing ever will. All I am saying is, that there is a large portion of hackers who do it for the "coolness" factor, and a lot of people who get cracked games from said hackers, again, for the "coolness" factor of having something that's cracked as their way to stick it to the man.

This box is full of surprises. I was going to put the Geralt doll together when I noticed that there was another piece of paper behind it. So now I can make Geralt and a Triss doll. ^_^

Having one option without DRM, which still is one unfit for traditional collector players, doesn't really make up for all the others being essentially that what CDP was raging on against before release.

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but they announced that they would not be charging for DLC.


http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/110050-CD-Projekt-Does-Witcher-2-DLC-Right-Makes-It-All-Free

I'm not sure if I will end getting this game as I never really got into the original, we'll see though.

Ok. Now I see what you are saying. There is no choice of DRM free with the collector's edition.

Collector's Edition or not. You want to hold something, you have to endure DRM.

Well, if that's a problem, http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_witcher. Guess what I just did?

I just saw the new trailers... wow...
Scroll a bit down, right after How To Kill a Witcher, under the header of Trailers Cannonade.
http://www.en.thewitcher.com/community/

I can't wait to get the last 120 megs and start playing.

GameStop called today (probably regarding my pre-order), but my answering machine was full so I dunno what they wanted. Could it have been important?