Hello everyone. It's a bit weird to write in a post so old, but I think it would be ok to introduce myself to this community, since I've been in this forums forquite some time and follow it (with some occasional replies) as a Witcher fan (games and books), just to leave a "documentation" of my presence here.
My name is "Nekrypt", I was born in 1990, I'm from Uruguay, and I'm at this time working and studying architecture.
About my relation with The Witcher games and novels:
The first time I knew of The Witcher was around 2007/2008. I still didn't have my own PC,so I played at a friend's house. One day he bought new games (he bought them from Edward Teach), and between them there was The Witcher. It's name was intriguing; something fresh, and when I saw the game in action I was totally charmed by it's atmosphere: Geralt hunting monsters at night, beneath the full moon's silver light, relying only on his sword and abilities. I was then decided to play one day, but first I thought that perhaps it would be good toknow who made that masterpiece, and so I read about it. When I knew that thedeveloper was Polish I was like "WTF! Is that even possible?" (I was quite small-minded back then). I also knew by the forums and news that the company (CDProjekt) was working in a different way; friendlier with players, giving them a closer support, delivering quality stuff and treating customers as merely friends, and those were good reasons to support the company. I was apirate customer at that time, who thought that kind of policies didn't and would never exist among gaming enterprises, but later I believed in CDPR and decided to show them some kind of gratitude when I could get a new PC.
I also learned that the game was based in a series of novels, written by a Polish author, and that the game took place after those books, so I decided to read them first. Unfortunately I search for them in every possible bookstore or legal e-book format, just to find out that in my country there isn't a way of acquiring those books, other than traveling to Europe or shipping them (if that's even possible) at high costs, which isn't an option for me. So i went for the .pdf or .mobi versions in internet. I absolutely loved the books, and had to wait like two or three years before the last of them was translated into Spanish.
After finishing them I was totally ready to begin with my journey into the game. That could have happened if I wasn't a bit perfectionist and always found a reason to delay the game until a further day (every thing has to be in it's place in order to me to play a game. I need to be totally relaxed and maybe the planets must be aligned).
Now I'm just starting to play The Witcher 1, a GOG version, but I totally still love itand I think it's my favorite game. I also follow CDPR's new developments and try to help in the forums if I know something.
Well, that's my story and I have to say I really like this community and hope it lasts for many years.