Thursday, March 30th 2017
The Witcher Franchise Passes the 25 Million Games Sold Mark
This here is a theme quite close to my heart, since I've spent more time on The Witcher 3 than on any other singular game. CD Projekt Red has announced that their prodigal child, The Witcher 3 series (based on Andrzej Sapkowski's novels which you should definitely read if you like either well-written stories or The Witcher's world) has soared past the 25 million copies sold.
This has translated into pretty considerable revenues for the Polish company - those generated by the sales of The Witcher 3 and its expansion packs have, since the base game's release in May 2015, topped 1 billion PLN (around $254 million dollars). The 2016 revenues and net profit of CD Projekt were still 75% of those obtained by the company in the year that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt shipped - which just goes to show how much the series achieved with its release.
I, for one, am a fan of the way CD Projekt Red handles its marketing and fan communication, how they go out of their way to offer small tidbits that we have been mostly bled dry for by other companies. It really does stir up the argument when one considers that a company can make away with DRM (which the series has not had since The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, even though the company did stumble in those times) and succeed. CD Projekt Red has become a company whose mission and delivery - from including the games' soundtrack and a full sized, colored map with standard editions of the game, and fifteen free pieces of DLC - have done nothing but increase gamers' goodwill.
And let's not forget how The Witcher 3 stood head and shoulders above its competition when it came to a true, meaningful open world; well-written, well thought-out side-quests (and an amazing main story-line) set on a dark, gritty, believable medieval fantasy setting that made most of us ignore Roach's little misdemeanors. I'm all out towards their upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 take on a sci-fi setting (how I'd envy, you, Ciri, for having set foot on that universe already, if you were not a fictional character!)
This has translated into pretty considerable revenues for the Polish company - those generated by the sales of The Witcher 3 and its expansion packs have, since the base game's release in May 2015, topped 1 billion PLN (around $254 million dollars). The 2016 revenues and net profit of CD Projekt were still 75% of those obtained by the company in the year that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt shipped - which just goes to show how much the series achieved with its release.
And let's not forget how The Witcher 3 stood head and shoulders above its competition when it came to a true, meaningful open world; well-written, well thought-out side-quests (and an amazing main story-line) set on a dark, gritty, believable medieval fantasy setting that made most of us ignore Roach's little misdemeanors. I'm all out towards their upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 take on a sci-fi setting (how I'd envy, you, Ciri, for having set foot on that universe already, if you were not a fictional character!)
52 Comments on The Witcher Franchise Passes the 25 Million Games Sold Mark
No. 1 most expensive at the moment: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 $279 Million.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt $82 Million.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop
Loved it. Too bad there was only one season.
I believe that might be true
Just try to compare it with the animations in ME: Andromeda, lol :))))))))
Main thing they proved they have it still and hopefully they will again some time soon.True, how ever they did a awesome job on the weather effects in TW3, to the point you wounder why it isn't lagging like hell.
Got 40 hrs back home on my old rig (Athlon II X4, HD7770), but decided to stop playing because I wanted to experience it with all the bells and whistles. And since I'm waiting for my new gaming laptop to arrive, I just had to buy the season pass a couple of days ago (cheaper than both exp combined), and it'll be the first game installed when the machine gets here. Well that and Overwatch.
Not owning this game and like this type of game is just plain wrong and should have a punishment for it :p.
Ooh you like it even more , even more so when the weather kicks in and all the grass is blowing around tree's blowing about bending and shit.
Still, it's gaming done right.
But rx 460 whit ubersampling max setings only gives 17-30 FPS
Why we can not tranfer game to vulkan?
and whit all cores enabled on witcher 1