I still believe the best would be to have just the normal edition of the game + DLCs and those who add to the cart the GOTY edition would add the game + DLCs.

No redundancy with the games in both GOG and the libraries. And no "Edition Name" on the Games list. Just the game name.


The same way the games with "Collector´s edition" appear in the store but it´s just the game + DLCs in my account. I feel that´s the cleaner way.

What I don't get is why, when GOTY versions are released, you don't drop the price of the expansions. New adapters will mostly choose the GOTY version, and at this point the people buying expansions will mostly be early buyers of the base game, so you're basically punishing them for giving you their money earlier & in bigger amounts.

Sorry if I missed it, but how long does this offer last? Thanks.

Which offer ? , that's the price of the GOTY edition, there's no discount : check the main page / on sale , the GOTY edition isn't included, it's in the new tab.

However i find odd it's still possible to buy the base game, for the expansion pass i understand why. I have missed something ...

The advantage is you got to play the game earlier. You paid the premium price for that right. You could have waited and gotten the discount price... I paid full price for everything too and I'm quite pleased.

Just wanted to say congrats for The Witcher 3's success. It's the only game I paid full price in recent years and I don't regret a single cent. It's also a great reminder for the recently Denuvo-obsessed games industry that a DRM-free game can be a commercial success.

The reason why, is because there IS NO NEW VERSION. It is simply a new rebranding of the existing game with no new content, the exact same installer packages, the exact same everything, with the title changed from "The Witcher 3" to "The Witcher 3 GOTY". Nobody is missing anything, and there is nothing new for people who own the game already to upgrade into. There is no upgrade.

The box art changes from The Witcher 3 to The WItcher 3 GOTY. The files you download from the service for standalone installation are the exact same files with the exact same MD5sum as owning the game and expansion pass + free DLC, with the exact same extras.

It is ultimately a marketing rebrand of the product formerly known as "The Witcher 3 + Expansion Pass" and now calling it "The Witcher 3 GOTY" which quite frankly is a much nicer sounding name. They've added an updated manual and expansion soundtrack to go along with it and those have been added to everyone's account who already owns the game or game + expansions appropriately also. The purpose of the new release is purely marketing to encourage people who do not already own the game to potentially buy it now with some new headlines being made to draw people's attention to it.

That's really all there is to it. I'm not sure why some people are getting so worked up over an extremely trivial cosmetic marketing non-issue that literally amounts to absolutely nothing.

Personally I'm happy to see the new release simply to know that the game will receive a new influx of people buying the game who are going to enjoy the hell out of it, and that CDPR is going to enjoy a new influx of money from their amazing creation, which they've surely earned with this masterpiece 10 times over. It's one of the few games that now wear the "GOTY" name that truly and genuinely deserve to wear the title.

I own the base game + expansions and thus I own all of the content I would get if I did not already own it and just went and bought the GOTY today. So on my shelf I see The Witcher 3 and it doesn't say GOTY on it, but who cares? It's just a 1 inch square graphic icon that shows up on the website and in Galaxy client.

People are really that worked up that their already existing 100% identical copy of the game does not say "GOTY" on it? Surely Pfizer or Merck must have created some kind of pill for that by now I imagine. :)

What bothers me, is that 15 years ago when buying games on DVD was popular, a company could have put out a GOTY version of a game that was already exactly the same as what someone already owned, and just because there is new box art marketing on it, someone would go shell out and waste $60 to buy an identical copy of what is a single player game with no differences just because it is in a new box, and maybe buy another copy 2 months later when there's some other new graphic on the box just because they have to "collect" all of the boxes, when there is no actual differences of the content inside, and they can't play more than one copy at a time, or in this case, they can't even set it up on multiple computers for multiplayer.

The sole new "feature" of the GOTY, is that at least in Canada, and I presume other countries you can now buy the entire Witcher 3 game experience for a single regular price which is slightly lower than what it cost a day before the release of the GOTY. But if someone already owns it, they don't even get that benefit because they're not saving any money buying it now if they already own it, they're spending close to twice as much and not getting anything tangible in return.

Seriously, if there is a market out there for people who want to pay $66 for a new icon to show up on someone's library but no actual new content or actual tangible benefit, then I'm with the people who want that - I think GOG should let people buy another copy if they want to pay $66 for a 1" icon. Mind you, if they did that then there would be all the people whining and complaining that it is a cash grab and they didn't get anything new that they didn't already own too, so it'd be a double edged sword.

Nonetheless, it's pretty fascinating how emotional people get about every single new game release, re-release, feature, etc. on GOG.com. never ceases to amaze me, there are always people happy about something, always those upset about it, always those who feel disenfranchised and it really doesn't matter what the subject matter is. It's a nice little ecosystem with predictable parameters and outputs. :)

The best release of the year. Well done, CD Projekt Red and GOG Team! ^_^

Is the development for Witcher III content over? I prefer buying my games when their life-cycle has ended.

I pre-purchased base game and both expansions here at GOG's. Not again. Makes no sense. No use.

Then you have the Goty version, apart from the name. https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_game_of_the_year_edition_dab42/post136

Wouldn't it be awesome if products came out low priced or even free on release day to reward early buyers with loyalty, and then the price went up every day/week over time to make the game more costly to those who didn't elect to buy it right away?

Awesome for some of us anyway, but every game company would end up putting out one game and then probably going out of business due to their business model not lining up with any rational economics model. But that's just a minor issue... :)