Haven't played through the first 2 totally YET but I so want to get this one. They use3d one of my favorite game engines to start with and then just got better with each release. The next one is going to be mind blowing if the first 2 are any indication.

I am so looking forward to playing this one when it comes out.

Cd projekt, you guys are officially my fav gaming company!!
i am a vivid witcher fan, too bad i wont be able to play the third installment since i will join the army this December :(
you guys deserve much more successes.

Imagine that a company trying to boost sales. You must be a business major. /s

You guys are awesome.
Much appreciated!

Muchos gracias! :D

I love GOG, the witcher games and CDR's attitude in general but this is kinda low...

As far as i'm concerned everything that is included in the main game on release is just that, the main game.
So either you picked out a few features that wheren't advertised before or you figured you can spend aditional ressources to make these assets. That still only makes them regular parts of the game if you ship them on release.

If you wanna earn respect for "free" DLC it will have to be something you start working on after W3 goes gold.
You did so with W1/W2 and we all loved you for it. Please don't go cheap on us now.

Advertising these features now as free DLC feels just like a marketing scheme to increase preorders.

I understand what you mean and it's possible that it's just a marketing scheme but maybe they have already planned out this content but don't have the time to create and include in the main game. In the end we still get the content for free. In the worst case they get undeserved positive publicity and in the best case we get free extra content.

Remembering the Enhanced Editions of the first two games and how they were free for owners of the originals, while other companies were/are charging for something like this (e.g. Deus Ex: Human Revolution DC), I'll believe in the best case scenario. ^^

I have already pre-ordered The Witcher 3 and as soon as 2077 is for pre-order, that one will fall too. You guys are my favorite developers because of things like this.

Normally you would pay for every single dlc a company comes with, even day ones. EA does this, Ubisoft does this, Capcom, Activision and so on. Even Bethesda and Gearbox hopped on that bandwagon.
With that in mind this action from CdProjekt Red is then great to see. Wish more companies would do that with day 1 dlc's.
Still i wonder how much finished the game will be. Nowadays games are selled in a half finished version and the missing content is then cut into dlc's. I call all the dlc's then also pieces of the puzzle.
Also, day one dlc's are kinda lame. it's content which is already finished and would be normally in a game.
Where are the days when a game was finished for the full 100%, like good old Morrowind or all time classics as Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate. Morrowind had also some free items, called add-ons then (like the helm of tohan) , but those came after the game was released. They were also real add-ons and not cut out stuff.

This, in addition to their horrible DRM, is why I completely stopped buying games from EA and Ubisoft. I constantly feel that I payed for an incomplete game. Sure, they tell me I can finish the game without all the DLC, but I can't escape the feeling that there's a lot that should have been included, and that I am missing out on. And given how much you pay for the game in the first place, that's just totally wrong.

As for "finished"... the thing is, day 1 DLC is available online on release date, while the game itself has to be finished well before release date (as it has to be put on DVDs, sent to the factory to duplicate, then sent to the distributors in all the countries around the world, then sent from there to the retailers, and from there to the customers...)
So the game itself should be ready and tested well before release date. The time between the game's deadline and release date can then be used for additional testing and (while the programmers are waiting for the test results from their testers) for developing additional DLC. So while I don't have a problem with day 1 DLC existing at all,, I definitely have a problem with customers being charged for it.
Unfortunately, this policy appears to be very lucrative for the publishers, so unless a lot of people are suddenly going to stand up and say "We're not taking this anymore. We will not buy a single one of your DLCs!" - maybe even "We will not buy a single one of your games!", I don't see this changing anytime soon.
So all the more respect for CDProjekt RED for going the other way and making customer satisfaction their biggest priority, even at the cost of possible extra income.

Even if it's a marketing scheme, I still don't think the extra publicity is "undeserved". A company that has the guts to stick to this kind of policy and give away all DLC for free, in a world where other publishers charge you $5 just for a different skin for the coat your character is wearing, deserves all the publicity it can get. I hope this "markering scheme" helps them to sell lots of extra copies of the game and helps them make more money than additional DLC ever could.

Here how it looks like to me. I have a hard time to believe there can be DLC before the game is released...
The original idea was to release the game (platform) for additional content released and sold in the future?

There will be a LOT of content user created with the redKit but probably not in the quality of the game itself or official expansions (if applicable).

The DLC we get for free, would have been planned to be sold after release of the original game?

It is single player, please no crybabies about P2W (pay to win)... leave this to E-Sport games like Neverwinter Online. Even if this would be merged with Witcher Adventure game and you might get boni for buying stuff.

To be honest, I doubt it. CDProjekt RED have always promoted giving players a full release with everything included (no added costs), and I very much doubt they changed their mind on this. But maybe the number of inquiries (from certain players) about post-release DLC has been increasing (as several publishers sell lots of post-release DLC nowadays). I wouldn't put it past CDProjekt RED, that they decided to create DLC as requested, but make it free and use it as an advertising campaign to show players (and other publishers) how great CDP is... and hopefully help them sell more copies of the game.