The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt GOG Version Leaked On Torrent Sites, Please Don't Pirate It

Love The Witcher series of games? If you support CD Projekt Red for numerous causes, one of which is offering DRM-free versions of their games on GOG, then this news is going to leave you sad. We are still 7 days away from the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which is scheduled for May 19. Yet, I've learned today that the full game is already leaked to torrents.

[DarkOcelet]

Even if its pirated, the console versions will sell and they will make profits. And so will the PC version.

I cant remember a game from the last decade that haven't been released as a torrent.

And its been Pre-ordered over 1 million times so its all good.

[SourtreeDing]

tsk sad this has to happen...

Thank you PC version and this is why many console games dont come to that platform..

[DarkOcelet]

And what will you say when the PS4 gets Jailbroken or when the Xone gets Jtagged? Don't blame it on them when its bound to happen everywhere.

All you can do is simply support the devs. And i am gonna be honest here when i say that some devs do deserve to get their games pirated because of their dlc/microtransactions practices.

And i am sure CDPR will get tons of support from their PC fanbase. Those guys are awesome.

[T900]

@SourtreeDing

On the contrary i see more and more games making it to the PC. Specially those that we would have never expected last gen to be on the PC:

MGS 5, WWE, MK X. PC is gaining more and more support which shows the sales are there.

Piracy is always a problem, but so is second hand game sales, renting on consoles or getting jail broken.

BTW Witcher series has sold over 6 million units(this was back in 2013 must have sold more till date) on the PC. Its because of the PC you are getting Witcher 3 to begin with:

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

[SourtreeDing]

@dark

Bc we know pirating was a problem with PS3/ 360. right...

it wasnt even that bad on 360 console pirating isnt a big deal... atleast ot as big as PC

@t900

you can say the same to PC games coming to Console goto bed

[T900]

@Sourtree

You are acting just as your name suggests.

I never claimed consoles not to be popular. Consoles too are gaining games they never had a gen or so ago. Good for all platforms.

[Big_Game_Hunters]

Excet this is originally a PC franchise and PC gamers should be "thanking" console versions for holding back this game.

[cmgs]

Ps3 and xbox 360 versions of games leak a lot more than anything on pc. At least it's not possible to use a flash card on pc unlike supposed "loyal console fans" do.

[johndoe11211]

No idea why you're getting disagrees. More and more devs who used to be pc only are now releasing on consoles, in some cases they release on consoles first. It's also the reason devs and console manufacturers feel they need to try and screw us with drm.

We all like to think that they are the bad ones and gamers hands are clean but the truth is we have a major part to play in that. We criticise devs for drm in games but then when a dev that supports gamers refuses to use it we screw them over by pirating their merchandise.

If cdprojekt released their next game with drm pc gamers would turn into rabid dogs and bash the hell out of them. There is no winning. Fortunately not all gamers will be this unethical but the ones who are are making it bad for everyone.

@darkocelet

Fortunately consoles are harder to hack than pc's and updates can generally help remove cheaters and hackers.

@cmgs
That's utter crap. To this day no one has been able to fully emulate ps3 games. Ps3 emulators are limited in functionality and ps3 games are no where close to being leaked as pc games. There is not a single torrent site you can go on and find more ps3 games than pc games. Sitting there and lying about something that can easily be proven false by a six second Google search is asinine.

[Aloren]

@SourtreeDing and why is it that many PC games don't come to consoles ?

[badz149]

I don't get the mentality of

"some devs deserve their games to be pirated"

that's just BS! you don't want to give them money yet you still want to play their game? WTF kinda entitlement is that? more like spoiled brats I must say! pirating a game for that reason just shows that you're nothing but a hypocrite!

bottom line is, there is really no innocent reason to pirate a game in this day and age where you can get your hands on any game from so many sources legally. sure some devs are taking things to the extreme with their shoddy practices lately but they deserve their games to not be bought, not pirated!

I am taking a stance myself. no matter how much I love to play a game, but if the dev decide to stab our backs with these slimy DLC or Season Pass practices, I just decide not to buy them at all or wait for the inevitable GoTY or Complete or enhanced or whatever they decide to call it that contains all the DLCs later. any game can wait! no exception

[hay]

Well, it's simple. Buy if you want even better Witcher 4, pirate if you want to end your pleasure on the third one.

[Haki1112]

SourtreeDing forgets that witcher WAS A PC GAME TO BEGIN WITH they must be doing something right if all those pirates are buying enough copies to make part 2 and 3 lol

[Erik7357]

Youuuu pirates always justify you're plundering! 💀

[DarkOcelet]

So stating a fact makes me a pirate??

Ok cool...

[andibandit]

Yar-har-har

jk

[Whitefeather]

So because developers do something you don't agree with they deserve to have their work stolen? Nice logic.

Edit: Please explain how any of that is you being robbed?

Evolve they're shitty skins that are there for people who want them. Does Starbucks rob you when they sell overpriced coffee?

MKX: the microtranscations have nothing to do with the actual gameplay. It's there for people who don't want to input the full fatality code. How is that you being robbed?

Batman: the dlc includes a campaign with a full new character with motion captured animations and full voice acting. You think that stuff is cheap? You are not being robbed in any sense of the word.

[DarkOcelet]

So are you telling me you are ok with all the crap some of the greedy devs and publishers are giving us?

(Evolve Lazy skins and MKX microtransactions or the Arkham Knight Season Pass)

They are doing that to themselves my friend. I am not ok with people pirating games but at the same time, i am not ok with developers and publisher robbing us blind with their practices.

Edit:

What about Harley Quinn's Pre Order dlc? Thats a day 1 dlc that people who will buy the game without pre ordering will be locked out from playing them. Thats despicable.

[Whitefeather]

Again Harley is a separate character done as a preorder incentive. It was never part of the main game. They make these things on the side to help the game sell. How is it affecting your gameplay as batman if you can't play Harley?

Edit typo

[DarkOcelet]

What about those people who will buy the game? Dont they get to enjoy the full experience?

Those dlc should be unlockables in the game my friend. We should not be defending such a blatant practice.

[freshslicepizza]

it's a never ending debate because people will always try and find ways to validate it. at the end of the day they will do it because they can and there is no hard numbers that prove how many would buy it if they had no other option.

the facts are this, it costs real money to create theses games and if they don't receive real money they stop making them. you cannot have a sustainable marketplace with just freeloaders.

@DarkOcelet,

"What about those people who will buy the game? Dont they get to enjoy the full experience?"

yes they do and because they bought the game they have rights to that. those who don't buy it don't have any rights at all.

"Those dlc should be unlockables in the game my friend. We should not be defending such a blatant practice."

fine, then don't buy the game if that is how you feel. that does not grant you any rights to still play it for free. tell them how you feel about it. vote with your wallet. you are trying to combine two very different situations to validate one over the other.

[crazytechfanatic]

Damn your attitude.

[DarkOcelet]

Hahaha, that made me chuckle.

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

I already own the game on GoG so I might as well get an early version of the torrent if it lets me play earlier :)

I don't support piracy hence why I buy my games and nothing on my PC is pirated. But I can't wait anymore to play this game lol mind you I did the same thing with Watch dogs I had it paid for alrdy and played it early via the torrent copies.

Edit: Oh nvm the game is still not playable til launch so I'll stick with my GoG preload upto 21% atm.

[starchild]

Yeah, that's the one exception I would consider ok. If you've already paid for it like we have it wouldn't really be stealing. Although we would be getting it before the devs had planned for us to. Still, the console versions are already in some people's hands so I don't see how it would be such a big deal.

But, as you say, it's still not playable anyway so it's pointless to download it. Might as well wait for the official preload and when the game unlocks.

[Volkama]

Curious, how have they made it unplayable? No DRM is a CDPR hallmark, so it's surprising. Maybe a file missing, or maybe you just need to change your local system time to 19th :)

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

@Volkama,

It's missing files needed to run the game, these wont be released until CD project choose to release em.

Thats why I'll just stick with my GoG preload, I just cant wait to play this game its AGONY!

[joab777]

Still bull$!/# if you do.

Seriously. If you pirate a game by a device that chose to go next gen and pour their heart and souls into a game that offers 100+ hrs, then you are scum.

This game is worth every penny, and we wanna see.more games by devs like this, we need to support them
...ie. spend $60 on an amazing experience that's worth 3x that.

Otherwise, it will soon be games made by huge corps only, spreading broken products, microtransactions etc.

[3-4-5]

* People who really want a game, will pay for it full price, or wait a bit until price drops, but they will actually buy the product.

[ravencry]

This article is Clickbait.

No crack is released. It's just a pre-load files from GOG.

No one can play it

[Orbilator]

See you went and checked I out though lmao

[noprin]

quote from the developer on the torrent sites :
"On May the 19th CDPR will release a 1.01 patch that will contain numerous fixes and an exe file. This file will be available from the Galaxy Client (need not login/sign up, just have the client up and running with the preload files imported). Alternatively, you can download the patch from play.thewitcher3.com and just run it.

This will be available to everybody, not just people who bought the game.

Having said that, I would really like to encourage you buying the game. Firstly, it goes toward my salary (I work at the company), which you may probably not care about.

Secondly, if you own the game, you will receive 16 free DLCs which contain tons of cool stuff, including new quest lines, item sets, game modes etc.

The game costs 32$ on GOG.com. And for that 32$ you will get so much gaming content it will boggle your mind. Seriously. I am involved in the development process and me, as well as hundreds of people who have literally worked their assess off for the last couple of months (some serious overtime came into making Witcher 3). And I am telling you: this ain't an 8-hour corridor stunt for 60 bucks. This is a game as huge as Skyrim itself, perhaps even bigger.

I really do hope you enjoy the game, no matter if you buy it or not. I will however really, personally appreciate if you purchase it."

[Orbilator]

I remember the old days.
I bought a game called hook on my Amiga back in the day. My friends all laughed coz they got it pirated for a couple of quid.

Wasn't till you were quite a way in that the copy protection showed its head. There was a small cup missing from the table. And without it you could not progress. My friends all went mad thinking game was broken. And loads of people wrote in to cuamiga stating that, it was very funny reading the reply that they were using a pirated versions

I think this would be a great idea on the witcher, a little security check 15 - 20 hours in lol. Just delete an essential character and watch the support forum fill up with people hanging themselves lmao.

[illgamer]

It is always better to wait for the official release to get better tech support and ease of updates.

[Erik7357]

Let's show them even more support by letting everyone know about this with a article!!!

[crazytechfanatic]

Only to make people aware of the situation. Would you rather live in ignorance?

[Games4Gamers]

@crazy
what in gods name are you talking about?

[Erik7357]

Common sense tells me that there will be a pirated version available for this game.....don't need a article to inform me and not be "ignorant" about it...

[kraenk12]

The leaked version is not playable so the article is nonsense anyway!

[Paytaa]

CD Projekt Red deserves all the money heading their way. They have a very bright future and I hope they stay independent because their mindset on the industry is far better than any gaming publisher currently out there.

[crazytechfanatic]

Agreed. Pre-ordered the game on Day 1.

[dj3boud]

Technically.. You cant do that. You cant preorder on day 1, you buy it.

[joab777]

This game was not cheap to make. And consoles don't have a huge base right now. Yes, it has PC, but not if everyone steals it.

[Paytaa]

Actually the development costs were significantly low in comparison to games in similar nature. CDPR worked amazingly well with their budget. I wouldn't be surprised if The Witcher 3 alone outsells TW1 and TW2 combined.

[GreetingsfromCanada]

They listened to their bank accounts and released it on consoles. Even though it will be torrentsed millions of times, cash is a comin boys.

[TheDetective]

i per-ordered the collectors edition back last june & i paid it off along with the collectors edition guild just a few days ago. i am going to support these guys because i loved the witcher 2 when i played it on the 360 and could not put it down, so i know i knew this game was going to be good. if we want gaming to change for the better we make our mark by making sure this game is supported

[Hasswell-NeverCold]

Oh, Come on!

[_-EDMIX-_]

I can tell you legit.... da downgrade is REAL!

http://static.fjcdn.com/lar...

Mind you, thats on ULTRA!

[Revolt13]

Haha

[SilverClock]

LOL it looks like Runescape!

[Snookies12]

Who disagrees with this? People who didn't even look at the picture? Funny stuff though, those are some mind blowing visuals right there!

[Nero2142]

Didnt they say that preorders will have to download some day 1 data patch activation to avioid situations like this ? so it doesnt mean that this game is playable even if its on torrrents , i remember gta 5 pc was torrented week before realse but they had to w8 like week+ fpr crack

[SouljAx360]

Just because the game is available to pirate doesn't mean that every PC player goes to get it. People who are gonna steal it are gonna steal it. People who want to support the game and developers are gonna buy it.
I already got this one pre ordered and pre loaded. 7 days.

[Meltic]

I have actually been curious and looked at the various pirate sides. There are actually many admins who warns not to download the game to help stop pirating this game. Admin warns dont pirate this beuty please. The devs have worked their arse of for this game. Many overtime hours. I bought it on gog and the preload is already done, now i want just to play it :).

[crazytechfanatic]

Faith in humanity restored.

[Meltic]

Yes good devs like CDPR we should support 100%. The other ones that aint so good we can wait for good sales.

[Dynasty2021]

NOt every torrent leak is a bad thing.

Look at Deus Ex Human Revolution. PC pre-orders, confirmed by the devs, WENT THROUGH THE ROOF after the leak of the press-only version (like 1/3rd of the game), because players saw it was a proper PC version and not some shoddy console port.

We need to stop treating torrents as being so bad, and the REALITY is that they barely affect sales.

Unless you're Ubisoft, but they hate PC in general so...screw 'em.

[Volkama]

Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess

[Haki1112]

Volkama you must never played any ubisoft game on pc before lol those guys are the worst.

[Father__Merrin]

It's inevitable that a new game gets leaked online, even easier with gog games. I won't ever download 26gb+ games that I've not paid for.....when I've finished with dragon age il buy witcher

it's better to support devs than hinder them. I predict vast majority will actually buy

[kingeliran]

THEY CANT PLAY IT YET CHECK TORRENT SITES THE GAME IS MISSING FILES SO NO ONE CAN PLAY IT UNTIL MAY 19

[shaenoide]

C'mon missleading news or title here. It's not a leaked version it's just the GOG preload version you can DL if you buy an nvidia GPU. You can even play it without the day one patch.

[SilverClock]

FYI the Witcher 3 is available to pre-load on Steam right now. I'm downloading it as I'm typing this.

[Plagasx]

Its not like they can play it now anyway..

[DonkeyDoner]

I want GOG become as big as steam I mean come on where else you can play without DRM

[Articuno76]

There are sites, but they are still niche. Take Playism for instance. DRM-free but limited to Japanese indie stuff.

[LightofDarkness]

The main exe isn't available, the game can't be played yet. This is just the pre-load data. Either the author is a moron or this is clickbait.

[Orbilator]

I'm gonna say both of your assumption are spot on, author is a moron and it is clickbait

[Perjoss]

Makes no sense to pirate this game, even if you're gaming on a tight budget this is one of those games that offers an insane amount of value for money. If 'good guys' even exist within games development CD Projekt RED easily fall into that category. On top of that they have a great track record for making top quality games. They deserve to be supported.

[shotime97]

with all the leaks they should just release it ..all I can do it hope..lol the wait is killing me!!!!!!!

[Kaiou]

Well , i already bought the game but i'm sure as hell not gonna set by while others play it free AND early so here i go , just hope that the save is compatible so i can continue when my copy arrive.

Edit : oh never mind still need to wait for patch 1 to play so no one can play now.

[MilkMan]

This torrent and pirating is STILL going on?
Man, why f**k up the good work CD P has done?!
This is ridiculous, dumb a@@ess!
Pay for what you like and stop stealing and stop trying to spin it any other way. Thieves!

[hasamalaha]

If you didn't want it pirated, you certainly should have made this article idiot. You're only spreading the news. You think you're going to convince a pirate not to do it by saying so?

[Tzuno]

The release won't work until 19th, it is only a preload with no exe, on day 1 they will release a patch and the exe file, downloading now you just watch at some files. For those who afford go and buy the game is not that much, around 30$ plus that they will release a ton of free dlc. Piratery is for poor countries, for example in 2014 the average salary in Russia was 220 euro, now we all know all games cost 60$ at launch with some games on pc around 40-50, how the hell can you buy a game with that money per month? Piratery exists because of money differences in this world. Ignorance is the biggest problem in this world.

[LAWSON72]

I looked and no it is not it says thanks for downloading and will be playable the 19th