Buy The Witcher: Enhanced Edition digitally!

[Brysiu]

We’re  excited to announce several digital distribution partners for The Witcher:  Enhanced Edition, giving you more options than ever before. Steam, Impulse and Direct2Drive are all featuring 10% off pre-orders today (the pre-order ends at  11:59pm CDT today!), so if you want to get an even greater value for your money,  act fast. Please note that, currently, the digital distribution version is only  available in North America and numerous countries in Eastern Europe; we hope to add options for Western  European fans soon.

[jrcooper]

 This is great news. However, I thought the Digital Enhanced Version was free-of-charge to Registered Users. Has that changed?    I saw no mention of this on Impulse. Second question, please: D2D downloads do not function on my PC. Which would have a better chance of working better with XP SP3, Impulse or Steam? It appears Impulse might be best. Last question: Is this a separate package, or does it install over the original? Thanks for your help on this.

[Tom Ohle]

This is great news. However, I thought the Digital Enhanced Version was free-of-charge to Registered Users. Has that changed?    I saw no mention of this on Impulse. Second question, please: D2D downloads do not function on my PC. Which would have a better chance of working better with XP SP3, Impulse or Steam? It appears Impulse might be best. Last question: Is this a separate package, or does it install over the original? Thanks for your help on this.

This is just for people who want to BUY The Witcher: Enhanced Edition digitally. If you owned The Witcher, the update is still free (here at thewitcher.com)... this is for a totally new install.

[Lazarus71]

This is great news. However, I thought the Digital Enhanced Version was free-of-charge to Registered Users. Has that changed?    I saw no mention of this on Impulse. Second question, please: D2D downloads do not function on my PC. Which would have a better chance of working better with XP SP3, Impulse or Steam? It appears Impulse might be best. Last question: Is this a separate package, or does it install over the original? Thanks for your help on this.

Its free of charge to people who already own the original witcher, but we have to wait till the 19th to dl it which really sucks IMO.

[vanworden]

You will get Enhaced Witcher to your hands in the same moment as the normal buyers! It’s just undoable to do it faster

[Petra Silie]

The 10% off pre-orders ends today ... in a few hours. I think this news is a bit late    Anyway, I'll get my retail version... something to hold my hands.

btw... you are making me nervous with all your morsel news 

[Jorje]

Guys, is there any place NA people could officially purchase digital UK version?

P.S Or at least international one.

[Megamat]

In France, I work with a very good partner, www.dlgamer.com
It's a real alternative about Steam

A great support and a real partnership

[Jorje]

Thanks, but 49 euro... Should think about it...

[cowgoo]

I bought my UK version from NCIX in Canada

[avalonzero]

Whoh a 9GB download.  Yikes.  I miss my fast internet connection.  I guess I'll be waiting until the 19th for the update.

[margretli]

If we buy digitally, do we still get all that stuff that comes in the box? My guess is no... In which case, I will go buy the box from a store because I am nuts when it comes to "stuff". 

[Petra Silie]

In this nutty case I recommand to buy the retail version  There you get all those goodies to take out of the box and place on a beautiful decorated table. The digital purchase only has the features as its mentioned in the description.

[Sparrowhawk]

I'd be careful when contemplating buying it on Steam. I'm sure it'll be fine, but non-Steam games can turn into kind of a mess on Steam if the relationship with the publisher goes south.  What I mean is...sure CD Projekt Red designed the game, but it's publisher is Atari, and Steam may be getting it through a deal they've made with Atari (looks like they are).  Problem is, with Steam games the patches have to come automatically through Steam, and Valve is very rigid about only updating games they get an official, legal patch from the publisher for.  Actually, this is all better explained with something that happened that actually got me banned from the Steam forums (I made a sarcastic post):

I got STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl on Steam since it was cheap.  The game is developed by GSC (Eastern European as well) but published in the US by THQ.  As such, Valve can only update the game with patches they get from THQ, since legally that's who they have the game through.  Simple enough, but GSC has had a falling out with THQ.  So basically what happened is GSC put out the 1.6 patch for STALKER:SOC, and it works fine with retail versions.  Problem is, because of the falling out, THQ doesn't recognize the US 1.6 patch, since they didn't get it from the developer because of the falling out.  Well, guess what that means for people who bought it through Steam?  No patch!  The folks at Valve were decent about it.  They posted on their forum how their hands were basically tied because of THQ, which is fair enough.  The reason I got banned though is they kept locking threads where people were expressing their dissatisfaction, and I posted a sarcastic thread likening Valve to fascists(for the closing of threads, not the lack of patch). 

So basically, there are a ton of people out there with Steam copies of STALKER who can't play it multiplayer because Valve can't patch it.  I admit it isn't Valve's "fault" necessarily, but I just wanted to post my little story here so that people will be aware of it when deciding to order through Steam, as I noticed it does appear Valve has the game through a deal with Atari, not CD Projekt.  I'm sure it'll be okay...I'm just very skeptical of buying non-Valve games on Steam because of the potential for problems like this.  Might just be safter to get a retail copy that you KNOW you'll be able to update in the future.

[margretli]

I'd be careful when contemplating buying it on Steam. I'm sure it'll be fine, but non-Steam games can turn into kind of a mess on Steam if the relationship with the publisher goes south.  What I mean is...sure CD Projekt Red designed the game, but it's publisher is Atari, and Steam may be getting it through a deal they've made with Atari (looks like they are).  Problem is, with Steam games the patches have to come automatically through Steam, and Valve is very rigid about only updating games they get an official, legal patch from the publisher for.  Actually, this is all better explained with something that happened that actually got me banned from the Steam forums (I made a sarcastic post):

I got STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl on Steam since it was cheap.  The game is developed by GSC (Eastern European as well) but published in the US by THQ.  As such, Valve can only update the game with patches they get from THQ, since legally that's who they have the game through.  Simple enough, but GSC has had a falling out with THQ.  So basically what happened is GSC put out the 1.6 patch for STALKER:SOC, and it works fine with retail versions.  Problem is, because of the falling out, THQ doesn't recognize the US 1.6 patch, since they didn't get it from the developer because of the falling out.  Well, guess what that means for people who bought it through Steam?  No patch!  The folks at Valve were decent about it.  They posted on their forum how their hands were basically tied because of THQ, which is fair enough.  The reason I got banned though is they kept locking threads where people were expressing their dissatisfaction, and I posted a sarcastic thread likening Valve to fascists(for the closing of threads, not the lack of patch). 

So basically, there are a ton of people out there with Steam copies of STALKER who can't play it multiplayer because Valve can't patch it.  I admit it isn't Valve's "fault" necessarily, but I just wanted to post my little story here so that people will be aware of it when deciding to order through Steam, as I noticed it does appear Valve has the game through a deal with Atari, not CD Projekt.  I'm sure it'll be okay...I'm just very skeptical of buying non-Valve games on Steam because of the potential for problems like this.  Might just be safter to get a retail copy that you KNOW you'll be able to update in the future.

Thanks for the heads up! Steam was a last resort. I figure if I have to download the game, I mind as well download it as a free patch since I have the original game. However, as I mentioned in another thread, I am having one hell of a time finding a Canadian retailer!