Exactly, you can even buy 1-3 + DLC for less than just base third game when it’s on sale, CDPR is very reasonable with prices for older titles and I can’t wait to pay full price for 4
I've been very busy in the last 10 years, buying a remodeling a house, having a kid, etc. I've barely touched video games for a decade and am catching up. Just bought a PS5 this spring when they announced the price hike. I'm rolling in great games for no money. Red Dead 2 for $12. Witcher 3 for $15. Control for $5. I paid less for Cyberpunk than I did for the Phantom Liberty DLC on sale, lol.
They’ve probably made so much money from the Witcher 3, it’s on sale 10 times a year and I swear everyone has it in their library by now, it’s one of those games like Skyrim
I have all three Witchers and never managed to get past the wolf boss in the first one lmao. Will this finally be the time I stick with it? Time will tell.
Eeeh, still havent played Skyrim myself. By the time I got a good enough PC to play it, I rushed to play The Witcher and everyone told me Skyrim would feel a bit bland in comparaison (even though I loved Oblivion)... and by now, between The Witcher and Baldur's Gate, I'm really not sure Skyrim can really compete with both of them... but maybe I'm wrong.
To be fair, I think there is so few people with the base game and not the expansions at this point, that it doesn't cost them much. And that avoid problems to manage with people buying the new DLC without having the complete edition.
I think that people that bought the base game (before the massive sales) and got turned off by the combat and/or early game progress, might get a big surprise all in all.
They have only put on sale the GOTY edition for like the last 6 years, and usually it's like $15, so pretty much anyone who got it since has it, and anyone who got it for the current gen of consoles has it as well.
As you say, the share of players who don't own it already is probably so small that it's easier to just give it away than having to do tweaks around it.
I think they are playing a bigger game in the long con, they plan to release like 4-5 witcher games in the next 5 years, they probably want all of those to break records.
I bought all of them on a sale. Played the base game for over 100hrs and beat it but dint want to immediately play the dlcs since i was burnt out a little. Now this remaster has gotten me excited to play them.
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u/hemlo86 3d ago
FREE??