I don't normally do this but I just have to say something. I'm am so tired of seeing people bash gamers for not being online. How is it not acceptable for me to play a great AAA game like the witcher if I don't have the internet? Please help me understand the reasoning behind people believing such a thing...
It's perfectly acceptable to be an offline gamer. There are huge sections of the globe where downloading a >1gb patch might take a week or better and possibly even tie up your only communications line. This is what it means to not have highspeed internet, and there are a /massive/ amount of people who do not.
However, games have gotten to a complexity point where the time between a game 'going gold' and actually arriving on shelves, can result in a large number of bug fixes or optimizations which the Devs simply hadn't foreseen or considered acceptable losses during the release schedule. If we waited for 'bug free' releases, then the games would never come to begin with. There is always a point of diminishing returns,
There is nothing wrong with being a true-to-goodness offline gamer. And for a company like CDPR who doesn't force DRM and says that if you want to play the game in the 'gold' state, then you can absolutely play in the gold state, that means that you can pick the disk up off the shelf, and play that bitch.
It does not mean, however, that the developer should withhold further optimizations or further bug fixes from online-capable gamers simply because some peolple may not have the ability to patch up to the latest version.
There is a different between playing the 'release' version of a game, and those PS4 updates that say 'You must update your system first before we'll allow you to do anything with the console'.
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CDPR red will have a better game for you to play than the one that most of the reviewers have been playing so far.
For people with access to internet or thumbdrives, updates will be available to make that shit even better.