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Witcher 3 Exceeds 1 Million Pre-Orders

Just one more week to go until The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt arrives.

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CD Projekt Red's upcoming open-world role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has eclipsed 1 million pre-orders, the Polish studio announced on Monday. The game launches next week.

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CD Projekt Red didn't specify how that figure breaks down between platforms or physical/digital.

Although The Witcher 3 doesn't arrive until next week, the game is already on sale at some stores in the United Arab Emirates.

Gameplay footage from early copies of the game has appeared on Twitch, but the streaming site is having none of it. Streams featuring the game before May 19 will be taken offline.

In other recent news about The Witcher 3, comedian Conan O'Brien played the game and explored its sexy, unicorn-filled world.

The Witcher 3 officially launches on May 19 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Digital copies of the game unlock at 1 AM CET, meaning gamers in the United States can actually start playing in the evening on May 18.

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I'm happy to say I preordered and I'm proud of It. CDPR deserves every cent they earn. They are a light in the dark of scumbag game devs these days

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Game development are good guys, it's the pubs who force all the nonsense in.

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I've seen self published devs do the same thinnana though

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@N1mble: scumbag game publishers*

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Them too :D

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One of the reasons I pre-ordered it, other than trusting CDPR was because there was no BS, you didn't get exclusive in game items, stupid swords or skins, just some artwork and stuff. This is how pre-orders should work, with some things that are not in game, not lure you with cut content that will be sold as dlc later for about 10 bucks.

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@RogerioFM: Other than to support CDPR I did it mainly for the things outside the game, the Map and the compendium etc. They felt like worth having.

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Im still standing my by no pre order games stance, they are not going to run out of stock so there is no rush to get it.....It still has to be at least half as good as they make it out to be in motion.....
which I feel is a pretty good chance, but yet still a chance.

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@blackothh:

I agree, buy it when you know for certain the game will work. Publishers do not need any more encouragement to release broken games if 2014 is anything to go by.

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@punksterdaddy@blackothh: everyone just needs to slow down and take a breath of air, the rabidness of gamers is well fed upon....

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@blackothh:

As I said in my comment up from here, I get it, I can see why people want to pre-order but it does not serve us... It serves them and as you said it's not like they will run out of copies to sell these days.

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@punksterdaddy@blackothh: the last time I pre ordered was X Rebirth, wow what a disappointment.


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@blackothh:

Yes I saw Super BunnyHop's review of that (I think it was him), it didn't look or play great eh?

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"People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live."

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I dont normally preorder but when I do its because its CD Project

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I'm happy to say that I'm one of those. I preordered the collector's edition for Windows as soon as it became available.

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Is that the one with the statue?

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I'm stll not pre-ordering. They can have my money when the goods are exchanged. I expect good things, though.

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I don't usually pre-order things, well i mostly haven't pre-ordered ANYTHING but now that the witcher 3 cames out i found good prices on pre-order codes for it and why not? i have played both of them, 1 and 2 and they are awesome for me, the company seems to have doing things great, and either way i would have buy it so why not buy it cheaper? Im just glad that CDPR is getting their money back because for the amazing work they have done with the witcher series they deserve what's coming to them and i hope they keep dwelling into this amazing universe the have build so far, not in geral'ts story but something new, maybe the reconstruction of the wolf witcher school.

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You really need to read the books, they will completely expand your enjoyment of the game.

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@gerrigen: I just wish they completed the damn translations :p

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I know! Tower of Swallows isn't slated till 2016. The fan translations aren't too shabby though.

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@gerrigen: God bless the fans that are smarter than I'm.

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Its the only time that I preordered and the only reason i did it was to support a company that says "I know you can pirate the game so i am not trying to avoided it"

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@ftskamins: A good game sells, a bad game devs blame piracy, but that's another whole debate beaten so many times ! good job CDPR !

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glad i'm one of 1 million people supporting an amazing company :D


also didn't this game cost 45 m to make? so if each pre order are 50 dollars, they already profited from this? 0_0

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No, because CDPR doesn't take the full share of each sale. Cuts go to rerailers and distributors too.

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@elheber: well most of the sales are done trough steam which take 30% then gog takes the same amount too, but gog is CDPR's daddy company (or the reverse i forgot) so that might not count. and origin. who uses origin for non exclusive lol? i dunno how much origin cut is

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@apolloooo@elheber: If we consider the cut to be 40% on consoles and 30% on PC then it'll be $16m+$6m just for distributors. That means CDPR will have to make $67m to be profitable. If you count for an average of $60 for pre-orders so far considering all are standard edition(which they aren't), they'll just need to make more $7m which they probably already have made through collector editions or they'll make it on Day1 easily.

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@apolloooo: If that includes Marketing as well then yeah. That's if you consider all the copies to be the standard edition, and not counting collectors editions which bring in more orens.

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@apolloooo: 45 m to make? Seriously? Daaaaammm.

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I don't like pre-orders, I'm not proud I pre-ordered it, but I'm happy anyway that I did :D

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@RogerioFM: You're so young and naive

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@maynardkeenanx@RogerioFM: I'm not naive, I pre-ordered Destiny, that game ruined me.

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@RogerioFM: Why would you do something you don't like? It destroys any credibility you may have.

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@cainetao11@RogerioFM: ( ) this is how much I care about that. Specially if random strangers are concerned about my credibility.

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@RogerioFM: Same here. Except I am proud to put money into CDPR's pocket early. These guys deserve all our monies.

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Well deserved.

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