The news also appeared on Blisteredthumbs.net
http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2010/11/gog-witcher-2-offer/
The site is quite new initiative but it has a very nice potential for growth assembling several good reviewers like Angry Joe.

Thank you for your contribution.

So really, when WILL the witcher 1 be available here?

(I already own it on Steam mind you, but it seems like a major oversight)

I think this should be a careful business decision by CD Projekt. It also depends on the pricing. If CD Projekt want to be consistent they would need to use the 9.99$ price tag. These days TW1 still sells for more. Steam price is 15.99 EUR. For several days Amazon had a hot offer of 6$ but currently the price returned to regular 19.99$. Of course CD Projekt gets only part of the price but introducing it on GOG for less would probably make other sited to decrease the price and consequently decrease the CD Projekt income.
So let's let them do their math.
Personally I think they may decide to do release the Witcher 1 on GOG for 9.99$ but not earlier than this Christmas.

It wasn't on a blog or news feed that I saw, but I do know that a few of the forums on Gamespot.com were buzzing about the pre-order, and what a great deal it is, and why everyone should buy it from GOG instead of Steam.

I'm buying the retail collectors' edition! :)

There was a German article on the German 4players.de site which linked me here.

The escapist has mentioned a few things about the release on GOG, with the initial post here:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105428-The-Witcher-2-Epic-Everywhere-and-No-DRM

This is the fair way. The way of GOG.
While EA or Ubisoft sell us horrible DRMs, GOG gives LOVE.
With this conditions, I will purchase any CD-Project game.

I posted about it on my site :D.

http://pixelsmashers.com/?p=6414

Congrats on the great response. I'm thinking of pre-ordering it myself as well ;).

Just another point about the pricing. As you say, it's price is currently higher then GOG's 9.99$ and if GOG would decide to put it on here for more then that, what message would they be sending out. There are other games here from the same release period as TW1, so other puplishers might feel cheated.
"Is my game not worthy of more then 9.99$ but your's is?"
That might ruin it's 2 pricepoint plan.

I believe that they might put it on here sometime next january or the end of december.

games.on.net
Pre-Order Now, Pay Later - The Witcher 2 Available at Good Old Games

As for having all of the bonus games, this is GOG.com. Do you really expect that they won't substitute an equivalently priced game for you? (Something which has apparently already been confirmed.)

And as far as the pricing goes, you have the right to decide what you're willing to pay. Personally, I have only one reason not to go digital (I'd miss reading the manual) versus many reasons to actually do so.

1) Give my money to the creators of the game, not the middle man.
2) I can download my game repeatedly, anytime I wish, and I can save it to DVD's for future installation.
3) I get more bang for my buck than I would by buying a physical copy.
4) Digital means I can access my purchase from any computer with an internet connection. No need to lug around boxes and DVD;s every time I move.
5) I don't have to sweat the patches because CDP will keep things simple for me.

To be honest, I went back and forth about buying the first game, The Witcher 1, and finally decided to skip it. I didn't have much money, and I didn't see the need to spend that money on that particular game.

THEN I read an article about CDP's stance on DRM and their determination to do right by their customers, whereupon I immediately went to Impulse and bought The Witcher. I decided that any game company who devoted themselves to serving me, the customer, deserved my loyalty and discretionary income.

My actions may seem impulsive to some, but my only regret is that I wasn't able to buy The Witcher on GOG.com.


-Khalaq

Something of a mixed response over on Slashdot regarding plans to "fine" people who torrent it:

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/11/23/024255/Witcher-2-Torrents-Could-Net-You-a-Fine

Witcher 2 is the only game I've pre-ordered in ages. The original was THAT good. But I really hate this sort of heavy-handed threat, particularly in light of all the problems there have been with people having their information revealed and at least one group of lawyers admitting they knew there would be false positives when they sent out their letters demanding payment. You gotta do what you gotta do but it'll not make you any friends.

Swedish gaming site FragZone: "The Witcher 2 won't have DRM".

Either that or it's merely one of the mistakes that seem to happen almost every time they post a news item. Seems like they have a different set of bbcodes for the forum and news, which is a bit weird when the news gets added as-is to the forum.

I'd heard the news via the slashdot article, and even though it was biased against CDP ("they going to FINE youuuuu!"), the news about CDP's choice to offer a DRM-free version through GOG really knocked my socks off in a good way.

This is what most customers want when they buy a game: a GAME, not a game tied up with a bunch of nasty permission slips and 'mother may I' junk.

The announcement that folks distributing/downloading the game will be targetted directly should be welcome news to everyone who wasn't planning on pirating it, especially because of the DRM-free version. After all, isn't this what we, the paying gamer community, has been clamoring for publishers to do: go after the ones actually hosting/downloading the software and not the search sites? Far from being 'heavy handed', the statement should be considered fair warning!

I hope this works out really well for CDP - I bought and enjoyed The Witcher, and now I won't even have to download a funky .exe to remove the CD check for TW2!