So any word on why we can't get a single installer for all the greatness of The Witcher 3 without paying $50 more for it? If there's no difference in content why is this an issue for GOG or CDPR? I'd love to have an edition that ACTUALLY SHOWS UPDATES, for one. And for another, I'd like to have one difinitive installer. This is NOT worth $50 to me. Offer us a huge discount and make a little money off those of use who ALREADY supported you in the earlier going of the game, people! I'd pay $10 for an omnibus installer!

I make no promises to anyone but... I've been investigating the possibility of building a wrapper installer around the non-GOTY base game and DLC etc., or alternatively deconstructing all of the installers with Inno tools and making new bits one could use to build their own custom installer. I've never worked with Inno before though and it's a lower priority spare time thing when I'm bored enough. :) Having said that, if one of my ideas pans out and I come up with something I think would be useful/usable for others I'll throw it out there.

The way it would work would be you would either be:
1) You would drop in the new wrapper installer and it would run all of the existing installers silently in the right order.

or

2) You would run a utility that would deconstruct the existing installers and reconstruct a new super-holy-shit everything one, possibly needing to install Inno Setup first.

It's currently just pie in the sky wishful thinking though so nobody get their hopes up or anything, but it seems like a bit of fun to poke around with for my own purposes. In the mean time if anyone else wants to take the idea and have a stab at it also, by all means go nuts. :)

I think GOG should just provide GOTY version for free for all those who already bought all other parts. It doesn't make sense not to.

I quite merrily agree. I bought the game pre-launch, so for supporting GOG and CDPR, I get a version that doesn't ever show updates, comes with 10 different installers, and is a complete mess to maintain. People who came late to the show get 1 simple installer, a version that definitely will show updates in their library, and a 33% discount. The discount I can understand. I got to play the game at launch. But the rest? Why am I being punished with this garbage for being an early adopter?


Hell, the Enhanced Editions of TW 1 and 2 both added new content and made major improvements to the existing games at the times they released, and they were FREE to existing users. This makes no changes to the game at the time of release except the installation method, and is not given away. I know it sounds like false entitlement, but why is this convenience being denied those of us who poured money into their pockets in trust that the game would be good?

Because the game is good. :) I poured money into their pockets for a decent game, got an awesome game and really enjoyed it. My money's worth was achieved for myself at least long before I even finished the game, but definitely by the time I did (6 weeks after release). It's only improved since then with patches etc. so I feel I got my money's worth even more so. They satisfied my trust in them personally. If they provide more future goodies, improvements, new installers or whatnot that would be pretty awesome too and I'd appreciate any such offerings, but they already earned every cent of my money and I got my money's worth from what I have now. Running 10 installers or more is a bit annoying, but it's something I might do once or twice more in my life for one of the best games (the best game IMHO) ever made.

I can understand some people wanting the new 1-stop installer et al, but what I don't understand is how or why people seem to get so violently angry about it like they got ripped off or like it totally ruins the entire game experience of this masterpiece game. It's still worth the money paid for it even if 6 months from now it is 40 installers IMHO.

To be honest though, I wouldn't doubt it if some time down the line in 6/12/18 months or something if CDPR does some other promotion and DOES automatically upgrade everyone to the GOTY, or provide a unified installer to former game owners or something. Having said that though too, from time to time they did previously offer up a new installer bump that rolled up all patches to date to make it easier to install, and it would be nice if they did the same for each component at least, that would make things a bit easier on existing owners. Not a huge deal to me either way, although I'm trying to make a way to roll them all up myself with a wrapper at the moment. :)

It's not necessarily wrong to want the new bits, but I don't think people should get so upset about it that it ruins the entire game experience for them and they feel like they got ripped off or something. The game itself is so much more epicly large than that IMHO. They could provide it on floppy disk images and it'd still be amazing. :oP

Why isn't there a "1.30 to 1.31" patch? I have to download a 6-GB patch to get three new fixes for my current game? Bloody fuck... First we get screwed with Game of the Year edition, now this... My trust in CDPR is severely reduced.

Do the updated DLC actually contain any new fixes? They're not mentioned in the changelog.

Btw: Can we please get a fix for the inventory screen crash?

Thanks CDPR for making this wonderful game!

You have learnt many lessons from your mistakes in previous Witcher titles and have created a game that is truly great.

It also vastly helps that you are acting so pro-consumer in terms of no DRM and free content after the game released :D

Well done!

Well said, it is truly a game of epic proportions. It isn't often that a game comes along that steals the "best game ever made" title subjectively for anyone at all, but this game definitely did so for me and so many others out there and it may be some time until another one comes along that takes the baton from there to the next level.

I'm rooting for Cyberpunk 2077 but we'll have to wait and see. Personally I'm hoping down the line they do a Witcher 4 too. Not just in name, but truly worthy of the title and taking things to a whole new level whether it is a sequel, prequel, intermequel, side story, or some other in-universe thing. At the same time I can understand their wanting to switch out of The Witcher for a while to be creative in other endeavours as well. I just hope they come back to it some time later on. :)

@skeletonbow Beautifully said. I played through twice. (And know I still missed loads of stuff) The few hassles I encountered along the way were so insignificant I can barely remember them. I would have happily paid double for the value I received from this game. It is nearly impossible for me to even play any other games now. W3 completely ruined me. Haha.

I, like you, read through many comments on here along the way and was quite literally stunned at the amount of whining and complaining I saw... about pretty much everything. The folks that created this series of games have given away so much since the very beginning and have (in my experience) always tried to be as fair and responsive as possible. I challenge these whiners and complainers to go to EA and some of the other so-called "big" names in video games and try and get a fraction of what these folks provide.

I can count on one hand how many games I have played that give me a sense of dread when I know they are approaching the end. I can also count on one hand how many have brought a tear to my eye... The Witcher 3 is counted among those and those two things are, in themselves, worth every penny of money I spent. Thanks for your post.