The Witcher series sales hit 4 million

The Witcher games are absolutely amazing. I will never pirate a CD Projekt Red game because these guys genuinely deserve the support of their fans. Their stance on DRM is amazing, as is their attitude towards piracy. They focus on giving to the player so much that they WANT to buy the game, not putting so much effort into stopping people from stealing it that they ruin the experience. Every DLC since TW2 came out has been FREE. Including the 2.0 update which added like 6 hours of extra gameplay and cutscenes. They really are a great company.

With regards to the people who say that if people aren't prepared to pay for a game they shouldn't be able to play it, I say that's ridiculous. Why should someone shell out £40 or more on a game when it comes out? What if it's a crap game? Even more so on PC, since you can't return them. It sucks that people pirate games, but I know a lot of people who do, and if the game is good, they pay for it. Particularly if it offers benefits to people who officially own it, like MP mode. But with so many games coming out it just isn't feasible for most people to buy every game that they want to play, especially since a large portion of gamers are students who can't afford it.

TL;DR - Witcher devs are legends, more devs should follow their example of trying to be good to their customers and not charging through the nose for every little bullshit DLC - like CoD and Fable.

Piracy isn't the evil beast people make it out to be. It doesn't kill games. The people who pirate WOULDNT BUY THE GAME ANYWAY. And the pirates who would buy the game do if it's good.

c'mon Gamespot, leave the piracy crap outta your articles for once.

@sabresieben I Don't think CD Projekt is going to port it onto PS3 because troublesome for them since PC -> XBOX 360 is an "easy" port. IF they somehow do happen to do it they might end up being sorta like bioware and make a really glitchy/crap framerate game.Otherwise it would be better for sales if they did.

not going to lie i pirated it played it and beat it....but when i had money i purchased it just to give some money to CD they are a company that deserves it

"still more than number pirated" - im gonna make a sales analyst decision for you cd projekt and you try to follow along. release it on ps3.

I didn't buy it or play it, the dev probably includes me in the pirated numbers...

Seriously, pirating games is NOWHERE near as popular as this dev would make the media believe.

The Witcher games are really fun i hope they make more

Here's hoping the Witcher 3 won't be as hard as the second one. I absolutely loved the story in that game, but the insanely difficult combat really turned me off - so much so that if I didn't like the story as much as I did, I probably would have rage quit and stopped playing.

The combat in the first game was broken, I admit that, but at least it wasn't so damn hard. It's the reason I prefer the first game over the second, I liked the combat much more, and I especially hate the removal of stances in part 2.

That being said, these guys deserve all the sales they get, these games are excellent.

People don't get that when this game came out there was no demo and the engine was heavy as f***, which led many people to "try" the game before purchasing. Minimum requirements were set waaay too low, running this game @15 frames per second. CD Project forgot to tell us that the game was unplayble withtout a powerful quad-core cpu and a strong last gen gpu. I myself tried the game before purchase than decide for a huge upgrade and bought the game on GoG. The fact that lots of people downloaded pirate copies of game doesn't mean they actually enjoyed them, it just means that there's something wrong with their business model. Any game with such kind of requirements will always score massive pirate downloads, still, the industry hasn't learn anything from Crysis 1 in 2007.

Btw, I'm not here to talk sh*t about CD Project, I like these guys and I like their games, but there's always a reason.

I like how they act as if thats 4.5 million missed sales. It's virtually a guarantee that the majority of those people would have simply just passed on the game had they not been able to pirate it.

the witcher 2 has sold almost as many copies as the pc ver, and the 360 version just came out. maybe port to the ps3 too, people dont buy PC games, they just dont.

Congrats well earned :)

Well deserved, hopefully it will mean we will get more great games by these guys.

Even /vg/ hates Witcher pirates.

c there is hope for real games make something interesting and the public will buy it this is a prime example of why you don't make an elder scrolls or cod knock off. Super excited for anything else they can give me this is one of the best games of the last decade and one of my favorite games of all time.

that's what happens when you release an amazing single-player pc game. personally, i bought it. but seriously, cd projekt red doesn't really think every single one of those 4.5 million people would have bought the game if it wasn't for TPB?

definitely one of the best rpgs ever created. great job cdprojekt!

Keep it up CDProjekt! The Witcher is one of the best roleplaying series ever. I just wish Andrezj Sapkowski would translate the rest of the Witcher books into english so I can finish the book series too.

Great news and well deserved. Hope this great developer continue with this momentum.