In an open letter to fans, Marcin Iwiński, co-founder and Joint CEO of CD Projekt Red, has outlined their company’s dedication to providing DLC to their fans with 16 planned DLC packs for Witcher 3: Wild Hunt completely free of charge, no matter when they buy the game or what platform they choose:
“We love games. We love collecting them, playing them, and everything connected to that experience. Every time we reach out for a new release, we expect to be taken care of. We expect support if we encounter any problems, we love updates constantly improving the experience, and we feel really special when we receive free content that gives us more than we initially paid for. It doesn’t have to be huge, it can be an awesome skin for a character, or an extra sword, or armor.
Unfortunately this treatment is quite rare these days. As gamers, we nowadays have to hold on tight to our wallets, as surprisingly right after release, lots of tiny pieces of tempting content materialize with a steep price tag attached. Haven’t we just paid a lot of cash for a brand new game?
As CD PROJEKT RED, we strongly believe this is not the way it should work and, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we have decided to do it differently. Cutting to the chase, everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform. You don’t have to pre-order, you don’t have to buy any special edition to get them — if you own a copy of Wild Hunt, they’re yours. This is our way of saying thank you for buying our game.”
The DLC will start arriving the day after the game launches on February 25th, 2015, with the Temerian Armor set (horse armor included) and a beard and hairstyle set for protagonist Geralt, and an additional quest and an alternative look for one of the game’s other main characters, either Yennefer or Vengerberg.
The remaining DLC, which has yet to be announced, will arrive in sets of two every week starting on March 4th.
This is quite the ambitious DLC plan! Does this news make you more excited for Witcher 3: Wild Hunt? Approve of the way CD Projekt Red is handling their DLC? Let us know in the comments!
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