Witcher 3 Studio Responds to Crunch Accusations

all I care about is the finished product, and I haven't seen it yet. i reserve judgement until i've played the game myself.

I feel like this should have happen with destiny lol

I don't think I could ever crunch, especially if it's mentally fatiguing. I can deal with physical fatigue, but not mental

I do see how a 'crunch' is a bad thing but I believe people are reading too much into this. Especially if the people involved are passionate about their product, they probably don't mind putting in that extra effort to make the game absolutely perfect. I know I wouldn't (and don't).

They're probably not as noble or "all about the players" as we all seem to think, but they're certainly closer than the majority of other devs out there.

Add to the mix free copies of Witcher 1&2 for anyone who bought them on Steam, so they can also have the DRM free copy to play/install on any computer they wish to, how can you dislike a group who back up what they claim and have gamers in mind? Sure they want to make money, everybody on earth does, but few go to those lengths to ensure customer satisfaction and re-enforce future business with consumers. Only thing I fault them on is making me wait so long to play Witcher 3, but that is just me being selfish and wanting my cake now :P

<< LINK REMOVED >> ur comment is a total fail, no one fucking about creating ur character, and what i find the worst fucking retard is,.... WHY THE **** WOULD U SPEND HOURS ON MAKING A CHARACTER WHEN THE GOAL IS TO PLAY.... about ur fucking retard DA3... what is dragon age... a gay copy no challenge of dark souls?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> i played both of Witcher 1&2 (both were amazing),and Dragon Age 1&2 (the first was a blast BUT the second was a "CRAP"), when you hear the word witcher the first thing or picture comes to your mind is the face of the famous Geralt of Rivia, want to say that the both games hope to be great they both adopt the term "open world" from the infamous game skyrim and the issue of creating your won player isn't that big deal

<< LINK REMOVED >> Ok this deserves a response. Bioware did not lie on ME3 can't comment on DA2 haven't played but want to. I won't get into a point-counterpoint but if I remember correctly the article about ME3 was when they hadn't changed the story. It wasn't a lie. I will agree about letting trailers make your choice though.

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I think both games are going to be great. As for the character creation issue, I think it's a none issue when the character you're playing as a good one, which Geralt more than qualifies as. By your logic then The Nameless One must have been in a bad game...

gamespot now working on rumors ... how nice :)))

I hate CDPR and all they represent!

lol I wonder if an official spokesman will bother respond now ;)?!

Nice try, anonymous, but we still love CdProjekt. Until this day, they delivered exactly what they promised, not to mention the no-drm policy and respecting and listening to fans worldwide. It's gonna take more than that dubious statement to make us hate this amazing company.

Sounds like sour and bitter grapes. Everything I have seen and all of their games have delivered on the hype so why are people taking hype from a troll seriously?!

The reality of life is this, many jobs and professions involve crunch times. It's nothing old nor new, it's just real life. I crunched for 26 years at my profession and am now on the beach! It's how life really is. Just saying folks!

Yeah, no. I don't plan to get TW3, simply because for whatever reason Geralt and I don't seem to get on (still haven't finished 1 or 2) but accusing a dev that puts no copy-protection on its games of somehow trying to con people? Nope, that doesn't fly, son.

I never really fell into the CDPR love fest...but Witcher 1,2 were awesome, and 3 looks even better.

An anonymous source.... a.k.a. some bitter Russian kid who's jealous of Poland's success goes talking smack about it, cause he thinks that will put a dent in their earnings..... either that or some rival developer from Dragon Age trying to hijack sales from CDPR, so that people go get DA instead. Why doesn't this anonymous source post his face pic online or go on YT? Let's see this anonymous leaker... why is he so afraid? This isn't Watergate, it's a video game. The kid sounds like what I described, a hijacking troll.

Pizza guy was upset, even though he delivered 30 mins early all the time, they never let him play or take a peek.

Unfortunately crunching is a common practice in the industry. The thing is that some companies don't pay for extra hours. CDPR does.

Geez that's never been done before.... sounds about like every game made at one point or another

EVERY studio makes games for profit. Period. CD Project is definitely better than others, true, but they are not some kind of charity company either.
And Crunch time is not nice, but it comes with the profession (I don't buy that 1 year of crunch thing, makes no sense)

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That is very different. Those were new IPs. as for DA 2 have not played it but from what I've heard is that they changed some things and it really isn't that bad. As far as this goes CDPR has already established trust and Both games have been great. They aren't the type to lie. Everything we've seen proves this idiot wrong.