It's funny you know, I downloaded Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition illegally, then after I played the prologue for about 30 minutes I stopped playing it because I knew the game was good and I wanted to buy it and spend a concentrated time playing the game. I don't like fantasy at all as a genre, but on principle I wanted to buy it because I could see that this was a real work that a team of people had put an exhaustive and loving amount of time and effort into.
I bought Witcher 1 from GOG.com because I thought it me understand the backstory but it was too clunky and playing both games would be too much swords and sorcery for me so I thought I would wait and play Witcher 2. I forgot about it until last week when I watched the CDPR & GOG summer conference... it was on sale and I happily ponied up the cash for it and today I started playing the game properly. It's really deep, it's really hard to get to grips with as it's not my thing really but it's an amazing creation. There are weeks of gametime ahead of me which is what games were like when you were a kid, it's good that it's hard because the steep learning curve is matched by the design and level of detail in the game. It doesn't hurt that I have a GTX680 either!
My point is that Mr. Iwinski is right, about everything he said - make a really good game and at the end of the day the people who are actually going to buy it will. I would not have bought it unless I had downloaded a copy first. And the end result was that I bought both Witcher 1 & 2! And I never would have bought them if they were not on GOG.com.
And now that Cyberpunk is on the horizon (which is much more my pace - anything like Blade Runner is more to my tastes) I feel really glad to have bought these games just on principle to help support a great dedicated team. Thank you Marcin and CD Projekt Red for your labours of love.
