The problem is too many people read the headlines at game news sites rather than actually read what exactly CDPR has said on the matter. (Though often its the poor reporting of those sites as well).
Basically their philosophy is this: They want to create an arbitrary distinction between DLC and expansions. The word DLC in their opinion has devalued content because anything downloadable falls into that category. There's a ocean of difference between Horse Armor and Dragonborn for instance, but both are DLC. What they think the industry should adopt is setting the standard that DLC is small bits of content, like Horse Armor or Mass Effect's appearance packs, should be free to purchasers as a reward gamers not pirating the developers games. Hence the 16 free DLC they are giving to anyone who buys TW3, and the previous game's Enhanced Editions.
Expansions though should be significant content in both size and scope. Things like new areas, new cutscenes that require significant work and truly add something to game. These would be your Dragonborns, Shivering Isles, or Mask of the Betrayers and these they argue are ok as for money for given the investment into them. They've argued that these should be priced at a value so games aren't forking of twenties for 3 hours of content.
Remember at one point TW1 was going to have an outsourced expansion before they had to cancel it, and I can remember before TW2 was released they were mulling the idea of doing an expansion.
TLDR; CDPR hasn't been against paid extra content if they think its priced fairly and significant in size and scope.
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Basically their philosophy is this: They want to create an arbitrary distinction between DLC and expansions. The word DLC in their opinion has devalued content because anything downloadable falls into that category. There's a ocean of difference between Horse Armor and Dragonborn for instance, but both are DLC.
DLC What they think the industry should adopt is setting the standard that DLC is small bits of content, like Horse Armor or Mass Effect's appearance packs, should be free to purchasers as a reward gamers not pirating the developers games. Hence the 16 free DLC they are giving to anyone who buys TW3, and the previous game's Enhanced Editions.
Expansions though should be significant content in both size and scope. Things like new areas, new cutscenes that require significant work and truly add something to game. These would be your Dragonborns, Shivering Isles, or Mask of the Betrayers and these they argue are ok as for money for given the investment into them. They've argued that these should be priced at a value so games aren't forking of twenties for 3 hours of content.
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2013
2014
2015
Oh wells. Though I do kinda like the lighting in 2015. 2013 does look oversharpened.
So much stuff from 2013 got deleted though. All those people around the market gone.
2013
2014
2015
Oh wells. Though I do kinda like the lighting in 2015. 2013 does look oversharpened.
So much stuff from 2013 got deleted though. All those people around the market gone.
Oh man. I'm not passing judgment on game play or story - hopefully those will still meet the expectations of everyone that's hyped about this game - but as someone who was looking forward to this release as a technology showcase for high-end gear, this is a major dagger. What a letdown.
Considering, we don't know anything about the screen shots other than they are at the same place, I would hold off judgement. there is a good chance that is the console version and it is likely taken at a different time of day. That could easily explain the lack of people / activity.
How will the PC ultra version hold up against consoles?
It will be possible to spot differences in, for example, Nvidia HairWorks, but those are very demanding graphically, so a strong PC will be needed. What I’m about to say might not be diplomatic. In the future you will be able to turn on the option of ubersampling, which, upon the release of The Witcher 2, was killing the game, and will probably do the same with this title, so we don’t want to unlock it for now. It makes the game look better, but the requirements are insane.
Are all the textures and models the same?
Yes, there is only one version, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to make the game in time. We would have to take it all apart, and then build it and test it on three different platforms at the same time, which is impossible to do. Therefore, we have one common basis, and then transfer it to other platforms.
Considering, we don't know anything about the screen shots other than they are at the same place, I would hold off judgement. there is a good chance that is the console version and it is likely taken at a different time of day. That could easily explain the lack of people / activity.
It definitely won't look like 2013 though even with more people.
CDProject themselves said this months ago.
http://www.gamepressure.com/e.asp?ID=51
2015 looks terrible. Even Far Cry 4 looks better than that. Look at the horse, look at the grass, it's terrible. I'm sure 2013 is attainable on a high end PC but it was all dumbed down for consoles. Wish I didn't buy this game.
Or you can always just overreact without actually seeing a finished product on your PC, you know. Oh wait.
If he bought it through Origin, there is a full refund policy after 10? days. I think he should go right ahead and do that if he can.
If the PC version looks ostensibly like a slightly-refined version of the 2015 screenshot above, would you still take the position that asking for a refund is over reaction? I think there's a better than 50/50 chance that this point that the PC release is MUCH closer to 2015 than 2013.
Glad I didn't preorder - unless you're sure you're going to love the game play, waiting is always the best option IMO.
PS: If sxr7171 is serious about a refund, for non faulty games (ie, simply unwanted), GOG give refunds up to 30 days after purchase as long as you haven't downloaded it yet:-
Yes, I believe a lot of people will think it's an overreaction, if you're buying this game because you thought it was going to be a fancy tech demo then you're being ridiculous.