I purchased a copy of Witcher 3 on Xbox One, started to enjoy the game, SLOWLY, and then decided to purchase another copy for my new PC. All before patch 1.07. So, I have invested over $120 on two copies of the game. Now, with no warning, my ability to control my character as I desire and am accustomed is removed as part of a patch! Patches should fix bugs and iron out problems, not remove controls that existed in the game as purchased, controls that were not broken. The control system is still in there, still in the code. But it is masked or overwritten by the patch files. You cannot tell me, CD Projekt Red, that there was not a better way of going about this. You cannot honestly say that the removal of slow walk, if some people wanted it (not that I have ever seen anyone asking for this ability to be removed) could not have been implemented as an option or as a piece of optional DLC, rather than a global (and basically mandated) change. Sure, since I now own a copy on PC, I can revert to patch 1.06. But then I am locked at 1.06 and cannot benefit from actual needed fixes in later patches. And Xbox One and PS users don’t even have that limited choice.
I quote CD Projekt Red Community Manager Marcin Momot concerning changes in patch 1.07 relating to an alternate movement style, “Once you play it, you’ll be able to choose the one that fits you better. If you put in a lot of hours into the game and we change it all of a sudden, that would feel weird, wouldn’t it? That’s why we thought it would be only natural to have this as an on/off option,". I ask you, CD Projekt Red, did you implement this control change as an option? You did not. You removed player’s ability to moderate their movement speed across BOTH options.
I appreciate the stances your company takes towards gamers. I believe, for the most part, that you are setting standards we, as gamers and as customers, hope to see in a game company. But THIS, folks, was poorly done. Removing control and reducing player agency is never a good thing. As a paying customer, I expect and demand better from you. A brief reply from one of your forum monitors, who obviously didn’t even know about this change themselves until recently, is not sufficient.
Please, I offer you a chance to give a better accounting of your thought processes here. But ultimately, I urge you to re-implement this change, as a true option, as it should have been implemented originally.
Please respond.