Report: Witcher 2 Launching on Good Old Games in May Alongside Retail Release

November 18, 2010 9:05 AM

According to Eurogamer, CD Projekt will launch its anticipated RPG, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, on Good Old Games on May 17, alongside the game's planned retail release.

Although GOG.com is known for releasing retro PC titles for current Windows-based operating systems, CD Projekt--who owns and operates Good Old Games--will make an exception for its upcoming title. Additionally, plans to launch on GOG.com means that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will be completely DRM-free.

Eurogamer notes that CD Projekt will announce the plan during a scheduled conference call today.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was originally scheduled to launch in March, but was recently pushed to May so that developers could "polish the game."

Xav de Matos

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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famine101

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November 18, 2010 9:16 AM

Huh. I wonder if GoG will plan to be a standard content provider in the future.
- VisitorQ
  
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  November 18, 2010 9:19 AM
  
  Most publishers will never accept their policies on DRM. It's either this marks the day when DRM will be added to GoG titles, or Witcher 2 will be a one-time anomaly in the service.
  - asgorath
    
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    November 18, 2010 9:26 AM
    
    So you don't believe it will be DRM free?
    - VisitorQ
      
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      November 18, 2010 9:55 AM
      
      Either it is DRM free, and it won't become a trend for publishers to generally push new releases on GOG, or they will implement some form of DRM and try to build GoG as a complementary service to rest of the DD platforms out there.
      - VisitorQ
        
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        November 18, 2010 9:58 AM
        
        Either way, I'll be now getting it from GoG. I love the service, and in this case the money will go directly to CD Projekt.
    - David Craddock
      
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      November 18, 2010 10:02 AM
      
      GOG reports that Witcher 2 will be DRM-free: http://www.gog.com/en/news/pre_order_the_witcher_2_on_gog_com/0
      - VisitorQ
        
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        November 18, 2010 10:05 AM
        
        Yea, i just preordered it =)
        
        Good for them, good for us. And I'm sure rest of the publishers won't see things quite this way. I must wonder though how they managed to get Atari to play ball with them in NA retail while pulling this off...
- Vincent Grayson
  
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  November 18, 2010 10:51 AM
  
  Nah, there's an FAQ on their pre-order page explaining that this is pretty much a unique thing because they're all owned by the same people, so they're doing some cross-promotion.
  - TronBrVix
    
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    November 18, 2010 12:04 PM
    
    I've already pre-order from GOG. I love the service.