I bought the Witcher 2 preorder through your site a few days before release. I added Witcher 1 even though I have it on Steam.

I don't pay $50 for games. It's too much for me. I'll spend $10-15 on a relatively new game if I like it enough or it's independent. Usually I wait longer and spend much less.

I don't buy new. I wait for sales. I have so many unplayed games sitting around, I shouldn't buy them anyway. I probably won't get around to Witcher for another year.

I've never pre-ordered. Too many games are seriously buggy or incomplete even a year or more after release.

I don't go in for corporate loyalty, either. I've seen enough good companies go bad over time.

So why did I pre-order Witcher 2? Because I don't care what you do in the future. What you're doing right now is the best thing that could happen to countless classics that have been almost forgotten in the modern era. What you're doing with the Witcher series helps keep that tradition alive going forward. As distant-future entertainment, WItcher 2 may not be worth $50 to me, personally, but hopefully it's one more sale that will help your philosophy of gaming continue to gather steam (so to speak) and convince others to follow.

GOG can be silly and overhyped at times. But you love what computer gaming can offer, and it shows. And every so often we get a Planescape: Torment or Wing Commander announcement to remind us how high your sights are set. I'm sure I'll enjoy the Witcher games immensely. But I feel like I already got my money's worth before the download.

I agree with this. I bought The Witcher four times (Regular, enhanced, GOG and Steam) and TW2 two times (GOG and "Regular" - FTW retail version). Not one cent was wasted. Dudes and gals behind CDProjekt deserve some well-earned applause.

Indeed!
I've bought The Witcher two times (Red version and GOG) and The Witcher 2 three times
(GOG, Collector's Edition and regular for a friend).
It really feels good to support you guys :).

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you- I generally find the idea of pre-orders laughable, I rarely buy a game near the release date (better to wait for others to beta test it), and I think the last game I paid near full price for prior to TW2 was Risen (back in Q4 2009). And yet I still ended up pre-ordering TW2 and was not disappointed. The way that CDPR handled The Witcher (releasing the enhanced edition) earned them some serious cred, and the way that GOG was honest and open about the details of the version of TW2 that they were selling helped allay many of the concerns that normally accompany buying a game prior to or immediately upon release. And so far both CDPR and GOG have handled the release of TW2 very well, and have coped with some of the problems encountered in a very customer-friendly manner (such as when it was found that the DRM in some versions of the game was causing performance issues, resulting in the DRM being patched out).

Far too much these days the relationship between gamers and game companies is far too antagonistic. Us gamers tend to love to complain and nitpick about things, and game companies are far too often in the habit of trying to take their customers for all they're worth (whether in the form of rushing out shoddy products, milking them through DLC, or treating them like criminals with onerous DRM). The resulting antagonism makes me feel like I always need to be extra careful when buying games to avoid being screwed. Thus it's very refreshing that a company like GOG exists that gives the impression that they want to maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with their customers, and the fact that pretty much every interaction with GOG staff is is friendly, forthcoming, and professional is a very nice contrast to the way that many other companies operate. If anyone from GOG happens to read this I'd like to emphasize that that last bit really counts for a lot- even though I've only had a few occasions in which I've needed to interact with GOG staff I still take note on how the staff handles many of their other interactions on the forums, and what I consistently see continues to make me very comfortable doing business with GOG.

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Not much more I could say that hasn't already been said. :)

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+3 cheers for GOG/CDPR!