The Witcher 3's free manual is being ripped off and sold on Google Play by scammers
Each copy of The Witcher 3 comes with a free manual, but some people are apparently trying to profit by selling a scanned version of it online.
This week’s big release is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and as you can tell from the amount of content we’ve been publishing this past week, we’re a little obsessed with it right now. One thing most were surprised with was its inclusion of an actual manual, especially considering most modern-day games direct players through their tutorial in lieu of including a physical manual. Unfortunately, some are taking advantage this by scanning the manual and selling it online as a booklet.
The Witcher 3’s game manual is currently available for sale on the Google Play Store. Its publisher is “Markelov”, although we know if this was a legitimate digital copy of The Witcher 3’s manual, it would be published by CD Projekt RED. The digital booklet has been marked down from $10 to $8, is 9-pages long, and its description is as cookie cutter as it gets as it just describes the game itself and not the product.
The Witcher 3 is one of this year’s highly-anticipated games, and to see something like this happen is disappointing. Hopefully Google will catch wind of this listing and will take it down since anyone who purchases a copy of The Witcher 3 automatically get a free manual with their purchase.
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Daniel Perez posted a new article, The Witcher 3's free manual is being ripped off and sold on Google Play by scammers
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I didn't see shacknews beeing so upset about the shady commercial practices that gog / CDPR used to move people to their new platform, as you are now for this scam attempt.
And that this scam appears it's not disappointing, it's expected. People always try to take advantage of others success.
What is disappointing is that a company as CDPR uses that kind of practices, when they make good games that have no need of those practicers to sell well.
Both are wrong tho.-
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"We control all digital and the codes," Jaki wrote "Because we decided not to sell keys to GMG, it came as a surprise that they are doing a special promo without buying keys from us. We have reached out to ask for the source of they keys, but up until now there has been no response."
This is the most interesting part to me. I wonder why CDPR wouldn't sell to GMG in the first place. That's never been made clear.
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