The Witcher Enhanced Edition - EAX hotfix released

"John Lewis" <john.dsl DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
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> What hoops?
> Just a simple on-line registration of your original version with a
> unique name and password and use of these elements during the EE
> Upgrade install-process.. Clicking on the Register Game line in the
> startup screen and following the simple instructions gets you going
> with the registration. As for DRM, you just have to use the name and
> password only whenever you re-install the game....as many times as you
> like. None of the hardware-dependent install-limits of the anal EA
> scheme. No Steam umbilical on a single-player game.
>
> Or maybe you mean the file sizes and download steps required for the
> FREE Enhanced upgrade? Seems as if it comes at a great price.
>
> John Lewis


It was only FREE because it's what should have been in the game in the first
place. You don't call what you posted "jumping through hoops"? Then WTF is
it? Those are "hoops" by my definition.

Professor Digby wrote:
> "John Lewis" <john.dsl.RemoveThis@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:4954130d.3724385@news.verizon.net...
>> What hoops?
>> Just a simple on-line registration of your original version with a
>> unique name and password and use of these elements during the EE
>> Upgrade install-process.. Clicking on the Register Game line in the
>> startup screen and following the simple instructions gets you going
>> with the registration. As for DRM, you just have to use the name and
>> password only whenever you re-install the game....as many times as you
>> like. None of the hardware-dependent install-limits of the anal EA
>> scheme. No Steam umbilical on a single-player game.
>>
>> Or maybe you mean the file sizes and download steps required for the
>> FREE Enhanced upgrade? Seems as if it comes at a great price.
>>
>> John Lewis
>
>
> It was only FREE because it's what should have been in the game in the
> first place. You don't call what you posted "jumping through hoops"?
> Then WTF is it? Those are "hoops" by my definition.

The Witcher was a good game to begin with. The enhanced upgrade makes
it a really good (borderline great) game, as far as I am concerned. And
from what I understand, many of the enhances and upgrades occurred due
to player feedback and requests, which took time and gameplay experience
to amass, so it logically could not have been in the game in the first
place.

Look at it this way... If they had wanted to, they could have gone the
way of many games (and movies) by coming out with the "enhanced" or
"director's cut" edition, and charging you full price for it even if you
owned the original. Seems to me a few hoops are a pittance compared to
what it could have cost.

--
~ CoinSpin

Professor Digby wrote:

> It was only FREE because it's what should have been in the game in the
> first place.

I played through both versions and there was nothing wrong with the
original version. In fact very little was changed. The graphics got a
small upgrade and the inventory system was made to work much better. The
added stuff was like icing on a cake and they sure didn't need to go to
the trouble of coding all that extra stuff, but they did. And they gave
it to use for free, which is a rare thing indeed these days. They could
have sold this as a upgrade version to previous owners, but they didn't.
As for the process to get the patch it involved making up a user
name and password sure wasn't that hard. It's not like they made you
fill out a huge form asking a bunch of questions and getting your home
address. No all they wanted was a e-mail address and for a simple
sigh-in. Big deal. I really enjoyed playing the EE version. It looked
better and it played faster and had more cut scenes that filled in some
of the back story. This is one of the best RPG games I've ever played
because it stuck to a basic game mechanic and really rewarded you when
you leveled up. The magic was simple yet worked fantastic once I got the
hang of it. Hell I got so good at magic that I hardly used my weapons,
even toward the end. JLC

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:55:19 -0800, "Professor Digby"
<prof RemoveThis @here.invalid> wrote:

>"John Lewis" <john.dsl RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:4954130d.3724385@news.verizon.net...
>> What hoops?
>> Just a simple on-line registration of your original version with a
>> unique name and password and use of these elements during the EE
>> Upgrade install-process.. Clicking on the Register Game line in the
>> startup screen and following the simple instructions gets you going
>> with the registration. As for DRM, you just have to use the name and
>> password only whenever you re-install the game....as many times as you
>> like. None of the hardware-dependent install-limits of the anal EA
>> scheme. No Steam umbilical on a single-player game.
>>
>> Or maybe you mean the file sizes and download steps required for the
>> FREE Enhanced upgrade? Seems as if it comes at a great price.
>>
>> John Lewis
>
>
>It was only FREE because it's what should have been in the game in the first
>place.

That's odd, considering that the original version sold over 600,000
copies and garnered rave reviews from **players**, not just the usual
"paid" reviewers. If you had been reading rather closely over the past
year, having removed your distorting spectacles, you would have
noticed that the DEVELOPERS were not very pleased with their efforts
and wished to correct most of the deficiencies THEY found in the game
- recording ~5000 additional lines of English dialog, for just one
example of the many detailed extensions, thus making NPC encounters
far less repetitive -- and then offer the upgrade as a FREE download
to existing purchasers. A very unusual exercise indeed in this
cynical money-worshipping world.

> You don't call what you posted "jumping through hoops"? Then WTF is
>it? Those are "hoops" by my definition.
>
No worse in manual user-activity and download time than on-line
registering and downloading a complete graphically-intensive game via
Steam or any other game download service. The complete set of game
update files is less than 2 Gbytes.

John Lewis

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"JLC" <jlc.RemoveThis@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> As for the process to get the patch it involved making up a user name
> and password sure wasn't that hard. It's not like they made you fill out a
> huge form asking a bunch of questions and getting your home address. No
> all they wanted was a e-mail address and for a simple sigh-in. Big deal.

I am surrounded by peons and pussies. Read my other post as it applies to
your post too.

"CoinSpin" <coin^spam^spin@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Throwing in further arguments about *other* games with harsher DRM to
> support your mini-rant on such a mundane thing as what the Witcher EE
> patch required is rather laughable - it has absolutely *nothing* to do
> with the topic.

This is Usenet so has no mods to keep topics on topic. Get used to it,
bitch.

John Lewis <john.dsl.RemoveThis@verizon.net> wrote:
>Please say that you are not our dear alternate-reality
>bouncing-off-the-mental-walls friend "johns" in disguise.....

It's Jaurez the name changing troll.

Ross Ridge

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