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CD Projekt’s co-founder Marcin Iwinski has apologised to players who purchased The Witcher 3 based on early marketing material, and questioned whether the company should have released a trailer in 2013 that appeared to show greater visuals than those found in the final game.
“If you’re looking at the development process, we do a certain build for a tradeshow and you pack it, it works, it looks amazing,” Iwinski said while discussing the game’s history in an interview with Eurogamer. “And you are extremely far away from completing the game. Then you put it in the open-world, regardless of the platform, and it’s like ‘oh s**t, it doesn’t really work’. We’ve already showed it, now we have to make it work. And then we try to make it work on a huge scale. This is the nature of games development.”
The final version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been criticised by some fans for an apparent downgrade in visuals, with comparison shots highlighting the differences in lighting and vegetation between earlier trailers and the final game.
Studio head Adam Badowski claims that the original footage was captured on PC, however, and was not pre-rendered, but admits that the game’s rendering system was changed after the initial trailer was released.
“Maybe we shouldn’t have shown that [trailer],” Iwinski added, “I don’t know, but we didn’t know that it wasn’t going to work, so it’s not a lie or a bad will – that’s why we didn’t comment actively. We don’t agree there is a downgrade but it’s our opinion, and gamers’ feeling can be different. If they made their purchasing decision based on the 2013 materials, I’m deeply sorry for that, and we are discussing how we can make it up to them because that’s not fair.”
The developer says that it is keen to stress, however, that it is “continuously working on the PC version,” and that there is “more to come”. “We’ve proven it in the past that we support our games and we will be looking at the feedback and trying to make it better,” Iwinski said.
You can hear much more about what CD Projekt has to say on the controversy in its extensive interview with Eurogamer.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched on PS4, Xbox One and PC earlier this week, with pre-orders having exceeded 1.5 million units.
Source: eurogamer.net
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X
- Genre(s): Action, Action RPG, Adventure, RPG
