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The Witcher 3: Wild HuntExpansion Pass Discount Request for those who already bought the game.(78 posts)(78 posts)
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Posted May 20, 2016
I have been waiting patiently for a discount on this pass for a while now and now given that this game is deeply discounted by purchasing the base game with the expansion pass, I ask how is this fair to those of us who already purchased the game and still want the expansion pass? I thinks it's unfair for those of us who have bought the game before it was published and yet, the discounts offered are for those people who have not bought the game yet.

For the people who bought and supported the game before it was even released, I think it is only fair that we also receive a discount for the expansion pass. I am currently on a very limited budget and every bit of savings would be appreciated.

Steam offered this pass at a nice discount during their winter sale and unfortunately I could not use it for the GOG version.

Sign here if you also feel the same way and maybe GOG will take notice and provide a fair deal for those of us who already own the game and wish to purchase the expansion pass at a fairly discounted price.
Post edited May 20, 2016 by Gogmandala
Posted May 20, 2016
How would that be a fair deal? The expansion pass was available right from the start. It's not like they came out of the bushes and surprised you with it. The deal is still very fair because the 24,99 for the expansion pass is absolutely worth the money. Yes obviously for newcomers to the game the whole bundle would be cheaper but on the other hand you had the "luxury" of playing the game for a whole year now, playing HoS for half a year, probably having several endworld gamesaves and having been able to play each free DLC when it was released and not a year or more later. It is simply common practice to discount a game every once in a while after a whole year or more. It's not unfair.

What is unfair is Bioware doing this because Dragon Age Inquisition was an incredibly lacking game and the 3 main DLC were priced and still are priced at 15 Euro each which makes a whopping 45 Euro. Add to that another 10 Euro of, what CDPR considers, free DLC and you arrive at 55 Euro, more than the original game, and it's all included in the game of the year edition which is priced at 39.99, which essentially means if you are a player of an original game you can either spend more than the game itself cost to get the game like that or spend 10 euro less than the original game cost and basically buy the game again. Compared to that and what it delivers this is a joke money wise. 25 Euro for roughly 50-60 hours gameplay more, which is essentially the game time of DA:I and you knew straight away that that stuff was coming. Bioware in no way implicated that it would deliver 1 DLC let alone 5 and they never even offered a season pass. You have to buy them all seperately, each of them around the price of Blood and Wine.

Or take Fallout 4. They offer you a season pas for as much as the whole game costs 49.99 and for that so far have delivered a shitty "mod" which allows you to capture enemies and then tame them or use them in a sort of street fight for 4.99, another shitty mod that lets you hunt robots and then use their part to enhance your robot friends for 9.99 and now far harbor which roughly has the content and scale of HoS but comes at a price of 24.99 and is technically as bad and buggy as the main game.

Honestly? I do understand you, but your lament is basically the complaints of a rich man compared to what other companies do to their customers. I do think the pricing was fair and is fair for what we have been given by CDPR.
Posted May 20, 2016
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hedop: How would that be a fair deal? The expansion pass was available right from the start. It's not like they came out of the bushes and surprised you with it. The deal is still very fair because the 24,99 for the expansion pass is absolutely worth the money. Yes obviously for newcomers to the game the whole bundle would be cheaper but on the other hand you had the "luxury" of playing the game for a whole year now, playing HoS for half a year, probably having several endworld gamesaves and having been able to play each free DLC when it was released and not a year or more later. It is simply common practice to discount a game every once in a while after a whole year or more. It's not unfair.

What is unfair is Bioware doing this because Dragon Age Inquisition was an incredibly lacking game and the 3 main DLC were priced and still are priced at 15 Euro each which makes a whopping 45 Euro. Add to that another 10 Euro of, what CDPR considers, free DLC and you arrive at 55 Euro, more than the original game, and it's all included in the game of the year edition which is priced at 39.99, which essentially means if you are a player of an original game you can either spend more than the game itself cost to get the game like that or spend 10 euro less than the original game cost and basically buy the game again. Compared to that and what it delivers this is a joke money wise. 25 Euro for roughly 50-60 hours gameplay more, which is essentially the game time of DA:I and you knew straight away that that stuff was coming. Bioware in no way implicated that it would deliver 1 DLC let alone 5 and they never even offered a season pass. You have to buy them all seperately, each of them around the price of Blood and Wine.

Or take Fallout 4. They offer you a season pas for as much as the whole game costs 49.99 and for that so far have delivered a shitty "mod" which allows you to capture enemies and then tame them or use them in a sort of street fight for 4.99, another shitty mod that lets you hunt robots and then use their part to enhance your robot friends for 9.99 and now far harbor which roughly has the content and scale of HoS but comes at a price of 24.99 and is technically as bad and buggy as the main game.

Honestly? I do understand you, but your lament is basically the complaints of a rich man compared to what other companies do to their customers. I do think the pricing was fair and is fair for what we have been given by CDPR.
KInd of funny how both games you mentioned I bought on a deep discount for the base game and the pass with all the dlc.

My point wasn't in trying to compare other games and they're shortcomings as you did. My point was to address the fact Witcher 3 expansion pass by itself hasn't seen a discount on GOG, yet it is currently on sale bundled with the base game here and also discount on Steam. So basically, that was what I was pointing out. Thank you for your thoughts.
Post edited May 20, 2016 by Gogmandala
Posted May 20, 2016
Because that simply is the practice. It's about pricing. And we are talking 25 Euro for another 60 Hours or so... that is absolutely reasonable furthermore, unlike Fallout 4 and Dragon age, the game itself feels complete without the DLC.

Like I said... compare the prices. Dragon Age DLC have not been discounted once... not once and are set at an outrageous price and it was never mentioned that there will be any or when and if there will be a game of the yeard edition. CDPR said there will be no game of the year edition and announced the Season Pass straight away and cautioned people from buying it until they had played the main game and were sure the DLC would turn out satisfactory. Fallout 4 basically offerd half a game for 59.99 and in the same breath announced a season pass for 49.99. Seriously... we are on the light side of the force with CDPR.
Posted May 27, 2016
bump still waiting to hear from others what they think and hoping GOG sees this post.
Post edited June 03, 2016 by Gogmandala
Posted May 27, 2016
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Gogmandala: bump still waiting to hear from others what they think and hoping GOG sees this post, but will prob. only get another fanboy to try to stray off topic.
Well, two cents:

if you kept an eye out on CDPR former "behaviors" you certainly must have noticed that they used to
- change prices over time
- that they had been very (I mean VERY) generous (see W1, the enhanced version).

Part of preordering TW3 had been NWN diamont edtition, and some kind of Witcher comic (both as a gift) - so no matter if this came from CDPR or GOG >>> they said thank you already.

The actual price drop: I preordered W3, too. I did this because I knew that I could do the purchase blindly, and I also knew that I would probably pay more by doing the purchase early on.
But honestly: how much more money do you spend for crap every day without ever thinking about it?

With W3 (and every update/sequel) you can be sure you get more then what you paid for in the first place.

Edit:
saw your remark about "another fanboy" too late:
so, do you really think that everybody that tries to point out where you are possibly wrong is some kind of "fanboy"?
Comfortable for you - might reduce the amount of answers, though ...
Post edited May 27, 2016 by zerebrush
Posted May 27, 2016
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Gogmandala: will prob. only get another fanboy to try to stray off topic.
Not a good way to get help.
Posted May 27, 2016
The season pass isnt really discounted in the combo pack either...
The base game is 25 here at the moment and with expansion pass 50... so that 25 more for the expansion pass, the same as for everyone else. And its understandable since B&W has just been released.
Posted June 03, 2016
Okay, I guess I'll have to rephrase my reasoning since it seems the only responses I received were not entirely releated to my query.

Why has this expansion pass seen a discount on Steam, however it has not been discounted on the GOG website?

I still affirm that I feel that GOG should discount this expansion pass for those who have prepurchased this game before the dlc was released, not to be fair, but as appreciation of those customers who bought and supported the game before it was officially released.
Posted October 21, 2016
Once again, after seeing a sale on the GOTY, I feel burned and I wonder why GOG is still not offering a compatible discount on the DLC for the original owners of the game. Both dlcs are currently discounted laughably higher than the expansion pass!! WTH? So, some poor sap that supported your game earlier than these new GOTY customers are going to have to pay MORE if they are lacking a dlc than those who waited until the cheap and new GOTY hit the market? Who the heck does your business model?

The lesson I have learned from this disappointing handling of lack of appreciation towards those who supported this game when it was first released by choosing to keep the dlc prices hiked has made me question whether I will ever buy an early release from GOG ever again and for that matter, anything from GOG ever again.

GOG demonstrated a lack of appreciation by not selling the dlc at a compatible selling point in line with the GOTY (which obviously is why I arrived at the decision that with this company it's best to wait to save to money.

GOG, unfortunately based upon this poor business decision, you lost a faithful customer and hopefully others will follow my suit. Maybe then this company will show more appreciation for customers who support their games by ordering prereleased material.

Sorry for reanimating this necro post but I'm giving GOG one more shot to do what I feel is the appropriate action to take to retain customers.

EDIT: Looks like I'm not the only one asking why: http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/333656722968063534/
Post edited October 21, 2016 by Gogmandala
Posted October 21, 2016
Yea i totally agree. Also running on a tight budget and bought the full game on release. I seem to remember that the expansion pass when first released had 10 or maybe 15% off when first released (before both expansions), and i didn't take it up then. But since then for over a year the expansion pass has had the exact same price. And we've had several sales where both expansions are discounted to be cheaper to buy individually than buying together in the expansion pass.
While a great game, i regret buying it at release instead of just waiting for the game of the year edition
Posted October 21, 2016
Based on the current discount page, the price difference is now €20, both discounted and not discounted.
You can expect to pay more when you buy it around the release date. If you wait, it will get cheaper eventually. Either through sales or the base price gets lowered.
Post edited October 21, 2016 by HertogJan
Posted October 21, 2016
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HertogJan: Based on the current discount page, the price difference is now €20, both discounted and not discounted.
You can expect to pay more when you buy it around the release date. If you wait, it will get cheaper eventually. Either through sales or the base price gets lowered.
This exactly. If you want things cheaper, then you wait till is is cheaper. Don't come in here with this entitlement attitude thinking that things should be discounted on your schedule, and if a developer doesn't do it on your schedule that makes them doing the wrong thing. The only person here who is wrong is if you have the entitlement issues of the Original Poster.
Posted October 22, 2016
Didnt come here to nag about it but if you know some marketing (or you work there/as a dev) you will know that this discount is the maximum possible for the moment being. Where is the profit if they give it on -85%? They have expenses too you know. I do not find the price high for you buy quality (but then again I work for a good amount of money and I can afford it)
Posted October 22, 2016
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Gogmandala: Once again, after seeing a sale on the GOTY, I feel burned and I wonder why GOG is still not offering a compatible discount on the DLC for the original owners of the game. Both dlcs are currently discounted laughably higher than the expansion pass!! WTH? So, some poor sap that supported your game earlier than these new GOTY customers are going to have to pay MORE if they are lacking a dlc than those who waited until the cheap and new GOTY hit the market? Who the heck does your business model?
I feel you, it's the same with Skyrim where it was eventually cheaper to buy the Legendary Edition, than the DLCs separately.


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Gogmandala: EDIT: Looks like I'm not the only one asking why: http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/333656722968063534/
You are certainly not the only one asking, here's about 1000 people asking for the same: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/witcher_3_goty_upgrade_possibility
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