Had a polish friend recommend The Witcher to me in 2007. Never heard of it before but as a hardcore rpg fan, I just had to try it out. Didnt really like it at first but as I progressed to act 2 and 3, the game started growing on me more and more. And though I didnt understand alot of references to the books and stuff at the time, it was overall a grand experience. In 2011 I randomly stumbled across The Witcher 2. I didnt even know they made a sequel up to that point. So I went and played it too. And though I was a bit disappointed with the length of the game(after having spent so much time in TW1) it was a blast(After being on these forums for a while I finally understood after some time, why TW2 was so "short" in comparison to TW1. Im glad CDPR survived their little crisis). A little before that I migrated to steam. For this statement to make sense I gotta explain that I pirated the first 2 games initially. But because I had so much fun and I gradually pirated less and less games due to steam, I went and officially bought them on Steam as I felt the devs deserved my money.
I started reading on these forums sometime in early 2012. Seeing all those peple talk about the books and still not having a clue what the references in TW1 are all about, made me wanna read the books. So I went and got them and read them and it was pretty awesome. And now weve got 2015 and I spent almost all my money this month on the preorder, leaving me with 20 or so bucks to live off of tins for the rest of the month.
Thanks for the awesome games so far, CDPR. I have faith in you and think you will pull this one off just as grand as with the first 2 games.