I'm currently not sure if I should pre-order the game to me, though I still often have to read the CDPR a contract is entered into with Nvidia in terms Witcher 3

Especially bad I find this statement from a Witcher 3 Lead designer

PCGH: So unlike, for example, the smoke in Assassins Creed 4, which can be activated only on Nvidia cards and even then requires a lot of power?

Balázs Török: The problem with the smoke presentation by APEX Turbulence is that the effect can be solely represented by the GPU. Turbulence is one of the modules, which can only be calculated on the GPU and it works - at least at this moment - only with Nvidia graphics cards. We are thinking about to implement it. But this decision is, to be honest, less on the programmer's side, but is more of a bussiness thing. And it is not an effect that necessarily results in an advantage for the feel or the immersion of the player

Since when effects have no impact on the feel?


I'm of two minds regarding the pre-order or the purchase of Witcher 3

(Sorry for my bad english....German English Translator)

Is your objection that:
1) It is immoral to support a project with an exclusive contract with one video card manufacturer, or
2) You fear that you will miss out on game features because your video card is the wrong brand, or
3) both, or
4) something else?

There is no good reason to be bothered by this.

Immersion comes from the overall creation of a believable world. If you're focussing on specific (missing) effects then the designers failed anyway.

Don't blame CDPR, blame the graphics card manufacturers. Nvidia have a better smoke renderer; should CDPR not take advantage of this and implement it?

So ATI need to develop their tech.

ATI have a better hair rendering system (TressFX) - should the makers of Tomb Raider not take advantage of this and implement it?

So Nvidia need to develop their tech (and in this case I believe got it working on the GTX 680)

At the moment I do not even have a pc which is good enough for The Witcher 1 but I also got The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3 preorder ... I must be an idiot, I've only bought them to support gog.com.

Look at the videos and decide for yourself.

I did find Witcher nice looking. At it was much better looking than the Uplay-Errormessage for those people that can't play AC at all.

Just some note about the German language pre-order page for Witcher 3: It uses informal speech to address me as a customer. Informal German is officially only appropriate to talk to below 14 years old children and very impolite when used towards adults. I know, it is a widespread practice in the video game industry (mainly fueled by EA), but I think, it doesn't match a self-proclaimed "adult game" like the Witcher very well anyway.

Please mind your target demography, you may scare away customers with this. My recommendation: Have a look at http://store.steampowered.com/?l=german how the market leader handles this more professionally.

By professionally you mean "Uses volunteers", right?