• Songs of the Past is now available to wishlist ahead of its 2027 release. It will take players to the brand new realm of Letten — an idyllic land of rural tradition that hides a dark secret just below the surface.
  • Remastered — a free upgrade for existing The Witcher 3 owners on qualifying platforms — brings a slew of upgrades and enhancements to visuals, performance, gameplay, and more when it launches on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
  • The Witcher 3 is coming to two brand new platforms. A native version of Remastered will be released on Nintendo Switch 2, and through a new partnership between CD PROJEKT RED and Blizzard Entertainment, Battle.net — both on September 29.
  • All owners of The Witcher 3 can now play to two acclaimed expansions — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — at no additional cost.
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    Always nice to see a company be pro-consumer, pro-gamer in these times of corporate greed that see gamers as nothing more than psychological manipulable profit.

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      Especially given how easily many seem to have willfully forgotten the horrendous Cyberpunk launch, they could’ve easily pulled a Nintendo with this stuff.

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        That’s what I was thinking watching the trailer. The switch 2 remaster of breath of the wild cost £8 extra and it didn’t include the dlc

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    Another next-gen witcher 3 update? Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but the last one was both underperforming and kind of underwhelming. Why not do a witcher 1 next gen? The old goose desperately neets a graphical and/or combat update.

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    I got the base game for free on GoG after playing it once on Gamepass a few years back, now I get the two expansions + remastered as well lol

    Child me would be amazed at how easy it is to play AAA games without spending a dime nowadays. I grew up with a dozen or so games and that was it because my father didn’t want to spend more money on videogames lol

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    All owners of The Witcher 3 can now play to two acclaimed expansions — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — at no additional cost.

    Ohh wow, that’s nice. I didn’t get it first time because the final boss of the base game sour my whole love of it, gotta give it another go some time.

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      HoS is a phenomenal piece of DLC that you’re supposed to play alongside the main story. It has a truly fantastic villain. BaW is a nice capstone for Geralt’s story, which takes place after the events of the main story.

      I tend to fall into the “DLC is bad” camp, but both W3 expansions are perfect examples of how DLC can be good. I tend to dislike DLC because it tends to break (at least) one of the following criteria:
      The base game is already complete, and doesn’t require the DLC for a full experience.
      The DLC meshes neatly within the base game without feeling bolted onto the side.
      The DLC adds genuinely interesting content to the game.
      All three critera are what I would typically complain about with DLC, and Witcher 3’s DLC passes all three litmus tests. So any complaints I would have about them would essentially boil down to personal preference rather than objective reasons.

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        Agreed, and also about the DLC rankings. Blood and Wine is alright but it’s wildly overrated. It’s a nice post-game vacation and it has some fun stuff in it, but it’s ideal to play like a year after finishing base game + HoS, in my opinion.

        Hearts of Stone is the best Witcher content CDPR has produced yet.

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    Damn, my ‘platform’ is too weak to play the unenhanced version, of you pile enhancements on it I’ll have to wait a decade or more (given the ongoing RAMaggedon).