The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt surpasses one million pre-orders worldwide

CD Projekt RED's upcoming RPG has suprassed a total of one million pre-orders worldwide. We get a sense that people are excited about The Witcher 3.

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CD Projekt RED has announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has exceeded one million pre-orders worldwide.

“We’ve crossed the 1 million pre-order milestone and it’s all thanks to you guys! We would like to thank all the gamers for their trust and support,” CD PROJEKT RED co-founder Marcin Iwinski tells Shacknews. “This is the last stretch and we’re pushing hard -- over the last two weeks, we’ve increased performance on all platforms and started working full speed on the expansions, Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine.”

In addition to the two expansions, CD Projekt RED has also promised to deliver sixteen free pieces of downloadable content that will be available for all who own The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The free pieces of DLC will start being released in pairs on a weekly basis, starting from May 20th.

The hype surrounding The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt appears to be rightfully deserved as everything we’ve read on the title, and seen in its trailers, look downright impressive. We can’t help but be as excited as everyone else is about The Witcher 3, and after learning about its over one million pre-orders, we have a feeling everyone is really excited.

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    May 11, 2015 8:35 AM

    Daniel Perez posted a new article, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt surpasses one million pre-orders worldwide

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      May 11, 2015 9:22 AM

      Crazy. I'm so excited for this game, I hope it owns.
      Hopefully this mean more Witcher games in the future too.

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      May 11, 2015 9:54 AM

      Grats to them, but I'm going to have to have a poke at them.

      increased performance on all platforms

      Yep, we know how they did it.

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      May 11, 2015 9:55 AM

      Pre-orders? that's cool. Lets see how many are sold though. Id be curious to find out. I do hope it does phenomenal since I am totally looking forward to Cyberpunk and I am positive the future of that title is tied to this one.

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        May 11, 2015 1:26 PM

        Aren't pre-orders counted as copies sold? I bought via Steam and I know I'm not getting my money back or anything.

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          May 11, 2015 1:36 PM

          Digital pre-orders are sold, yeah. Physical ones, you can pretty easily cancel and usually don't even pay for until shipping, so those could change.

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      May 11, 2015 1:18 PM

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      May 11, 2015 1:33 PM

      Cool, CD Project RED are awesome.

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        May 11, 2015 1:36 PM

        Unless you've seen the butthurt about the graphics the last two days or something.

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          May 11, 2015 1:37 PM

          They'll fix. I'm sure.

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            May 11, 2015 1:39 PM

            All that shit is nonsense gathered by people with too much time on their hands.

            Trust the developers known for amazing graphics, not some internet pixel counter.

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              May 11, 2015 1:42 PM

              my gtx980 cant keep a constant 60 fps in the first chapter of witcher 2 on ubersampling ultra. 2500k with a 4.1ghz oc with 8 gigs of ram. not sure if im doing it wrong or ubersampling is just meant to fail

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                May 11, 2015 1:43 PM

                Yeah that is weird. I'm playing TW2 with my 970 and getting a solid 60FPS with everything on, including uber.

                Are you playing at >1080p?

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              May 11, 2015 1:47 PM

              I dunno, obviously I guess we'll all see for ourselves when we play it but the videos and stuff that are around were done by either livestreamers who got early copies on PC or uploaded later.

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                May 11, 2015 1:47 PM

                Yeah I've seen all that stuff. None of it makes me worried in the slightest for the visual quality of the game.

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                  May 11, 2015 1:49 PM

                  Ok, but it wasn't that great. I want it to look like this bro

                  http://giant.gfycat.com/UnrealisticComplexGrunion.gif

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                    May 11, 2015 1:52 PM

                    I don't see what seems so different about that shot vs. a lot of the YouTube videos to come out recently. The game could look exactly like that under the Vaseline smear of YouTube compression.

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                        May 11, 2015 2:00 PM

                        Apparently that video (probably all the videos) are only on High settings, since Ultra hadn't been totally worked out at the point they had all those streamers in.

                        I dunno, it still looks amazing and I'm still not worried about the PC version blowing my mind.

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                          May 11, 2015 2:02 PM

                          I agree it still looks good, but those gifs are what I want out of 'next gen' shit. Instead we're getting something that is roughly equivalent or worse (in some aspects, lighting primarily seems worse) to their game that came out in 2011.

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                            May 11, 2015 2:06 PM

                            It looks very flat compared with the early videos and Witcher 2. Even his armour looks more MMO-like :(

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                    May 11, 2015 2:05 PM

                    W A T C H D O G ' D

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                      May 11, 2015 2:40 PM

                      going back even further, DARKSOULS2'D

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                        May 11, 2015 3:41 PM

                        I seem to recall a bunch of Crysis 2(3?) and maybe some Fallout 3 rigamarole.

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                    May 11, 2015 4:06 PM

                    Weren't you complaining earlier that you don't think your PC can run it, and now you're worried that it's not the best looking game ever made?

                    Ok.

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                      May 11, 2015 4:08 PM

                      What does that have to do with it? I was basing those assumptions on the quality of the videos and gifs they made like the ones I linked. The way it looks now, I'm pretty sure I can play it.

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                        May 11, 2015 4:12 PM

                        The graphics in the gameplay videos that have been posted are much better than The Witcher 2. There's a ton more foliage and AI characters, and they're all animated and moving. Faces are more expressive. It feels like a more active world.

                        The comparison shots you're posting are from trailers that are more than a year old. Game development necessitates making changes to visual fidelity over time. These complaints about The Witcher 3 are just as dumb as they were about Watch Dogs or Dark Souls 2.

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      May 11, 2015 4:29 PM

      i thought the game sucked now

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      May 12, 2015 12:53 AM

      I can't wait to see how Tumblr feels about this game

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