I finished the main quest&contracts after 80 hours (speedrun I know:)). And it's so good even the gameplay itself is nothing special. Geralt's story is over and I feel depressed exactly like few years ago after reading the books. But this time it seems to be over for good. Expansions will be just expansions like the Season Of Storms was.
After forcing myself to dodge roll through the 2nd game's corridor design, the openness is a breath of fresh air. Yes just playing it now though bought it before release. Was trying to beat the first game (when it came out, I was at the part where I decided to side with the Order then my PC died and lost my save, and just couldn't be assed to replay it again) but decided to just screw it BECAUSE I CANNOT STAND HOW BORING THE TUTORIAL IS AND I CAN'T DO IT I JUST CANNOT DO IT.
Also I really hate it when you play an established character from other media. It's like I don't want to romance Triss (who the devs shoved down our throats in the previous games) and Yen (who idgaf about having not read the books).
But the story events just feel weird.
I hope the next game lets you be your own Witcher. Or Eskel. Unless Eskel is well established in the books then I guess not.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sold more than 6 million copies during its first six weeks, developer CD Projekt Red announced on Wednesday. The company revealed the new sales figure, up from 4 million in its first two weeks, as part of its latest earnings report. The exact sales figure is 6,014,576.
I was just browsing through their financial report. Interestingly it seems they make virtually nothing from GOG, relatively speaking. Even gross revenues are tiny.
huh it says dev budget:306million pln -> $80.000.000? That much? I thought that had like $15.000.000?And one million copies activated on GoG isn't a small number ...
I'm pretty sure most of that budget was marketing. The 15mil was the actual development cost.
As to GOG, look at the gross revenues and net profits. They are pretty tiny. So small in fact that those 1 million TW3 sales made up 30% of GOG's revenue.
It'd be great if the next game let you start off as a kid, go through the trials etc. Even if it has to be set before TW1/2/3.
Or they could bring new Witchers back post-TW3, even though in the story they currently say they aren't able to. I haven't beat the game so perhaps it sets it up for that anyway
I think Lambert is great too I know he's a dick a lot of the time but it's refreshing to have a Witcher who says what he thinks and antogonises others I enjoyed the whole Kaehr Moren area immensely.
The 15m development costs figure is an old ESTIMATE from before the game was delayed multiple times. The final overall budget was about 80 Million USD, split almost equally between development and marketing.
And one million copies activated on GoG isn't a small number ...
Yep and with 751,401 on steam with steampsy and possibly some boxed copises which are not activated on GOGGalaxy ... its almost 2 millions which is pretty much 1/3 of all - so i bet PS4 is slightly above 2 mils and xbone below
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sold more than 6 million copies during its first six weeks, developer CD Projekt Red announced on Wednesday. The company revealed the new sales figure, up from 4 million in its first two weeks, as part of its latest earnings report. The exact sales figure is 6,014,576.
I was just browsing through their financial report. Interestingly it seems they make virtually nothing from GOG, relatively speaking. Even gross revenues are tiny.
As to GOG, look at the gross revenues and net profits. They are pretty tiny. So small in fact that those 1 million TW3 sales made up 30% of GOG's revenue.
This is my ignorance speaking: is GoG's revenue "whatever people pay for games" or rather "whatever cut GoG gets while rest of the money goes to owners of those games"?
Because it would make sense for W3 to become that big part of GoG, seeing how every penny stays in the house.
Obviously - the thing is, I have no idea how it's related to GoG's revenue. Numbers would be waaaay different if they included everything they received before sending money to the owners. Then again, that's kinda the point of using word like revenue... meh, idk.
I think Lambert is great too I know he's a dick a lot of the time but it's refreshing to have a Witcher who says what he thinks and antogonises others I enjoyed the whole Kaehr Moren area immensely.
This is my ignorance speaking: is GoG's revenue "whatever people pay for games" or rather "whatever cut GoG gets while rest of the money goes to owners of those games"?
Because it would make sense for W3 to become that big part of GoG, seeing how every penny stays in the house.
Revenue is the gross amount of income, before profits. My point being if 30% of their revenue was generated by TW3, then overall revenue is extremely low as a global games retailer. And on top of that they are touting close to a 140% growth over the same period last year, and a 430% growth compared to 2011 (when TW2 was over 44% of their revenue). It makes a lot of sense why they abandoned the old games only policy and started selling new stuff. There's basically no money in old games.
It makes a lot of sense why they abandoned the old games only policy and started selling new stuff. There's basically no money in old games.
No argument there, it never felt like anything more than a niche of a niche, esp. with really low prices. I guess what they were really after was people and recognition: it's much easier to level up with already established brand - and it seems it was fairly cheap to get there this way.
And yeah, I guess no special rules for revenue it is then. I suppose this virtual money for developers is hidden somewhere under short-term obligations.
I wonder what numbers are people from Humble Store dealing with, comparatively...
Yes, you do get a break once you return to Novigrad though if you so want it you can choose to continue with the main storyline nearly immediately too.
i still haven't finished this. I think i killed the fun by doing too many of the side quests and locations. It really removed the fun factor and became a drain.
So a piece of advice : Concentrate on Main mission and at best "Secondary missions". And don't bother with anything else UNLESS you are underpowered for the primary ones. Then go and do some level appropriate side quests.
I'm at a point where i am far ahead of the level i am supposed to be , i guess, and the it became trivial to even try to put up a fight lol. Oils -? Potions ? lol, just spam left click ...
Hope i can finish it one day , but it looks bleak hehe.
I didn't even finish that one. I hoped that I could talk to Triss when she's back in Novigrad, except there was no dialog about it. Quest just disappeared, couldn't find it under failed either, but quest items were in inventory.
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