The Witcher 3. In the middle of that great big brouhaha about whether the game had been downgraded, CD Projekt RED admitted that yes, there was a disparity between early demonstrations and the final game. They also said that it had to do with getting the game running on consoles. The console ports, however, were necessary, they insisted – or the game might otherwise never be made. It just wouldn’t be worth the cost, and they’d never recoup their money. They were right.
As you already know, The Witcher 3 has sold over 4 million copies already, which is some well-deserved success. For once, a big, AAA game has lived up to its hype. In a new video extolling the virtues and success of its new Good Old Games Galaxy client, CD Projekt has revealed how many people bought the game on that fledgling platform: 693,000.
They also say that a further 613,000 PC gamers opted to buy the game elsewhere. Extrapolating a little, that’s 1 about 1.3 million copies of the game sold on PC. Accounting for retail physical PC sales – let’s put a conservative guesstimate of around 400 thousand copies, we have 1.7 million PC copies sold. At a guess, that would mean that 2.3 million copies of the game were for consoles.
That’s a lot of copies. According to people who’re better with numbers than I am, it all means that – conservatively – people have spent a cumulative 9730 years playing The Witcher 3, which is longer than the earth has been around according to fundamentalists who insist that the earth is scarcely 6 thousand years old.
Last Updated: June 12, 2015
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:11
6k years old, haha, yeah, pull the other one
Uberutang
June 12, 2015 at 13:12
http://www.christiansagainstdinosaurs.com/
Hammersteyn
June 12, 2015 at 13:15
Morons!
Uberutang
June 12, 2015 at 13:16
I thought it was spelled Mormons?
Hammersteyn
June 12, 2015 at 13:26
lol
Mossel
June 12, 2015 at 13:30
Oh snap! haha!
Spathi
June 12, 2015 at 13:17
I’m not sure if that is a parody site? As a Christian, I damn well hope that is a parody site!
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:36
It is not. Bishop Ussher writings and American fundamentalists are alive and out there.
It is a serious thing. I think they focus on an area of the Bible and do not move past that. Wrong thinking, in my opinion. Extremely complicated issue.
that site is too slow to open. forget that.
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:37
4004BC tech?
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:38
do not understand?
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:53
You said the site is too slow to open, hence my joke about OLD tech…
Spathi
June 12, 2015 at 13:41
Yeah people have weird ideas. Me too probably 😀 At least life is interesting!
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:43
It is, but remember that you cannot discuss this with them. Fundamentalists are, by definition, fanatical about the core belief and cannot understand why others are not.
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:17
The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way, But the foolishness of fools is deceit
RinceTheElfRoot
June 12, 2015 at 13:25
Don’t send them hits! They’ll finally reach 4!
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 12, 2015 at 13:36
I can’t figure out if this is a troll site or not.
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:39
Not a troll site OR there are people who believe like this, in reality.
See American school system and the teachings about evolution. Or not teaching….
Deceased
June 12, 2015 at 14:30
Actually, I think we should give these people a chance, they might…
Bahahahaahaha!!!
I could not even think that sentence with a straight face XD
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:27
6004 Bc, on a Tuesday at 16:00
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:32
Heh
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:33
sorry, my memory let my down
4004 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:36
Oh, were you around back then old man?
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:38
No, my memory of the writing of Bishop Ussher.
I was around, just not THERE, if you know what I mean. I can neither corroborate nor refute that
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 12, 2015 at 13:38
Cats and their nine lives. Bastard. ;P
Brady miaau
June 12, 2015 at 13:39
And don’t you bloody well forget it!
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 12, 2015 at 13:40
XD
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:12
Finally! Console gamers are being useful!
RinceTheElfRoot
June 12, 2015 at 13:19
Finally? 0-O Who the fuck else beta tests all your PC games for years? lol
Spathi
June 12, 2015 at 13:20
Ignorance is bliss… 😛
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 13:39
THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU BETA TEST DIABLO?!, Goddamn slackers!
Deceased
June 12, 2015 at 14:34
Even if sales are/were insanely high…
Consoles just hold technology back -> there is absolutely nothing useful about consoles, shame on you for even thinking it :O
( examples include, but not limited to, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The Elder Scrolls – Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite )
Jonah Cash
June 12, 2015 at 13:23
I’m just happy that the game is doing well. I think they have been very upfront about most things, and that is why they were let slide on some of their mistakes. I never played one of their games, but Witcher 3 is really a pretty good game with such a big story!
Hammersteyn
June 12, 2015 at 13:28
Playing devils advocate here, but what about the WIIU? Or is the downgrade argument only valid till you sell enough copies? Them again, I wonder if the WIIU can run the first Witcher…
Nikola
June 12, 2015 at 13:29
Happy they doing well it is really a great game and they deserve it!
Mossel
June 12, 2015 at 13:31
If Cyberpunk 2077 is anything like Witcher 3… ZOMG!
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:31
Agreed
Spathi
June 12, 2015 at 13:32
Indeed! I’m a LOT more excited for Cyberpunk though, as I love that setting.
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 13:56
I can go on CDPR’s way of working that they know what they’re doing 🙂
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 13:56
If they have a W3-like statue of that woman from the promo trailer with the blades coming out of her arms, instant CE pre-order.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 12, 2015 at 13:32
Interestingly. When GTA V was rumoured to not be on pc there was actually a group of console players who started a petition to NOT bring it to pc.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 12, 2015 at 13:34
I met someone who honestly and firmly believes the world is only around 6k years old.
He has a masters degree.
Proof that a qualification doesn’t mean you’re smart.
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:36
^This
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 13:37
Is it a masters in theology? :/
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 12, 2015 at 13:37
Engineering, actually.
Mossel
June 12, 2015 at 13:37
Bro, in my geology class there were okes that took the professor on because they didn’t want to accept that the earth is 4.5b years old.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 12, 2015 at 13:39
Yea. I’m friends with quite a few highly educated people. Most of them are not very clever, but they’re convinced that they are because a laminated piece of paper says so.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 13:44
That’s why I see a difference between clever & intelligent. A piece of paper that says you studied hard enough to earn it is nice, but it doesn’t say anything about the quality of your own thinking – especially when it comes to something unrelated.
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 13:46
Yes. Exactly. 100% with you on that.
Spathi
June 12, 2015 at 13:46
“slim” en “boek slim”.
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 13:48
You just try and tell them that.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 13:51
lol. I’m happy too.
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 13:52
*swoooosh*
goes over their heads
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:54
I’m not impressed with degrees and shit, that just means you can copypasty, and should go word for CoD
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 13:56
word, bro
Mossel
June 12, 2015 at 13:48
I think most of those people are still very intelligent, just not open minded.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 13:54
My favourite quote from W40K DoW:
“An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.”
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 13:54
Hah
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 13:55
I wouldn’t say most. But some of them definitely are.
It just gets to me when they’re in company of all their “educated” friends and say things like “yes, but he’s just a *insert unskilled job here*.” And then they all nod and agree.
That is being stupid.
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 13:59
Completely off topic. Excuse me. That’s my rant.
Mossel
June 12, 2015 at 14:00
Yeah that’s fucked up. My ex was a teacher and I had to extinguish fires the whole time if we went out with such people. People really look down on teachers, even though they handle the most valuable resource…children.
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 14:01
^This
Spathi
June 12, 2015 at 14:02
http://www.thedigitaldistrict.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-children.jpg
Sorry, just inserting a combo-breaker here seeing as it is Friday afternoon and your post is much too serious!
Edit: And true!
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 14:02
😀
Mossel
June 12, 2015 at 14:04
hahahaa!! Fair enough…time to get into long weekend mode!! Woohoo!
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 14:06
Wooohoooohuuaaaaawwwwww 🙁
Just remembered I have to work Monday.
But still, no work on Tuesday!
Mossel
June 12, 2015 at 14:08
I wasn’t go to take leave then just decide treatyoself!
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 14:02
Yea man. I get you.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 14:01
Being more educated doesn’t automatically make you smarter than someone else. That’s just intellectual snobbery.
Captain JJ Browmehn
June 12, 2015 at 14:02
It is.
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 14:02
Indeed, look at certain members of parliament and their “education”
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 13:39
The more people who can play it, the better. Consoles will be getting Divinity: Original Sin too, which is pretty damn cool.
oVg
June 12, 2015 at 14:19
What does Geralt and Konami have in common?
They both spend most of the time searching for Yen and are great at killing things 😛
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 12, 2015 at 14:26
CIRI-US!
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 14:27
It is really not that AARD
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 12, 2015 at 14:20
Gee oh gee
ElimiNathan
June 12, 2015 at 16:19
Link to 6000 year old earth vids please 🙂 NOT
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