*nearly* as cheap as it's ever been a few months ago. Was 13 pound then, not a bad price considering!
Warning : The codes are for the website GOG.com and not STEAM.
The Witcher: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game set in a visually stunning fantasy universe full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher you play as the professional monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, tasked with finding a child of prophecy in a vast open world rich with merchant cities, viking pirate islands, dangerous mountain passes, and forgotten caverns to explore.
PLAY AS A HIGHLY TRAINED MONSTER SLAYER FOR HIRE
Trained from early childhood and mutated to gain superhuman skills, strength and reflexes, witchers are a distrusted counterbalance to the monster-infested world in which they live.
Gruesomely destroy foes as a professional monster hunter armed with a range of upgradeable weapons, mutating potions and combat magic.
Hunt down a wide range of exotic monsters from savage beasts prowling the mountain passes to cunning supernatural predators lurking in the shadows of densely populated towns.
Invest your rewards to upgrade your weaponry and buy custom armour, or spend them away in horse races, card games, fist fighting, and other pleasures the night brings.
EXPLORE A MORALLY INDIFFERENT FANTASY OPEN WORLD
Built for endless adventure, the massive open world of The Witcher sets new standards in terms of size, depth and complexity.
Traverse a fantastical open world: explore forgotten ruins, caves and shipwrecks, trade with merchants and dwarven smiths in cities, and hunt across the open plains, mountains and seas.
Deal with treasonous generals, devious witches and corrupt royalty to provide dark and dangerous services.
Make choices that go beyond good & evil, and face their far-reaching consequences.
CHASE DOWN THE CHILD OF PROPHECY
Take on the most important contract to track down the child of prophecy, a key to save or destroy this world.
In times of war, chase down the child of prophecy, a living weapon of power, foretold by ancient elven legends.
Struggle against ferocious rulers, spirits of the wilds and even a threat from beyond the veil – all hell-bent on controlling this world.
Define your destiny in a world that may not be worth saving.
FULLY REALIZED NEXT GENERATION
Built exclusively for next generation hardware, the REDengine 3 renders the world of The Witcher visually nuanced and organic, a real true to life fantasy.
Dynamic weather systems and day/night cycles affect how the citizens of the towns and the monsters of the wilds behave.
Rich with storyline choices in both main and subplots, this grand open world is influenced by the player unlike ever before.
Warning: This company may require you to provide a scan of your passport/drivers license before providing the code. They're based in Hong Kong too... which means they can hold on to it indefinitely due to their data protection laws. If they ask for yours, you should really ask for a refund unless you like the idea of potential identity theft.
- btc-uk
Top comments
Mark43
16 Jan 166#6
Heat given, my GOTY.
No reason not to buy on GoG, the Galaxy client works well, no point in paying the Steam premium. Plus I guess more money goes to the publisher, and they thoroughly deserve it!
ManishP to Alethia
17 Jan 164#35
GoG are DRM free, their whole concept is that you don't need to download any platform software to play their games. Just download, install and play the game.
But....but....my entirely inconsequential Achievements!! My trading cards that I'll never ever use!! Oh the HUMANITY!!!
Latest comments (43)
jasjeet61
18 Jan 16#43
Well it won't go far without a valid serial number... In that case anyone could do this with what's available on google images.
btc-uk
17 Jan 161#38
Last time I tried to purchase something from Instant Gaming (Rise of the Tomb Raider pre-order), they wanted me to send them a copy of my passport or drivers license for 'ID verification', considering they're based in Hong Kong, their data protection laws allow them to keep copies of such things indefinitely.
Obviously, I refused to provide it and requested a refund, then purchased it from CDKeys.com instead.
Personally, I'd be vary wary about purchasing anything from Instant Gaming.
jasjeet61 to btc-uk
17 Jan 16#40
Well I redacted all my info from my ID and sent it to them, can't do anything with name and address, which I already provided for billing address. Got my key and it's all good.
Elevation to btc-uk
18 Jan 16#42
The price has gone down to £12.70 but you've put me off even trying after finding out they ask for photo ID. No retail site that's even half decent EVER asks you for photo ID - not least for a photo of you holding ID. That's just weird, and highly suspicious. Avoid these at all costs. As I've said before, it's up to the site to prove THEY'RE legitimate, not for us to prove we're legitimate customers. And for those about to try and tell me "oh but you could have stolen someone's card - it's just so they know you haven't" well then any half decent company would recoup that loss back from the credit card company or bank further on down the line. Again, there is no genuine reason whatsoever for you to send a photo of yourself to a company holding up your ID. Full stop.
btc-uk
18 Jan 16#41
Other than create a fake ID using Photoshop based on what you sent them, of course... but hey. At the end of the day it's down to everyone what information they're willing to send to some random person half way across the world.
gingertips
17 Jan 161#39
charged me £15.14. also wont release me the code. they are saying they want me to scan a copy of passport before they will release. will have to try getting money back via paypal. cold for me
Flemon
17 Jan 16#37
Based on what?
They aren't on Rebellion's list of approved sellers: http://www.epicbundle.com/official-steam-reseller
Keyradar.com considers them unauthorised.
Lewis Proctor (of ****) considers them unauthorised (and he's part of their affiliate program I think).
Pretty much every discussion here, on Reddit, and on steam refers to them as a grey market site.
As a rule of thumb, if the deals they offer seem too good to be true (i.e. £10 cheaper than Steam, GMG etc), then it probably is.
N.B. it's not necessarily accurate to say that most grey market keys are illegitimate or stolen (well, depending on what you mean by illegitimate). A lot of them are from countries in which the price of games is lower - people working on behalf of grey market sites purchase copies, and they sell the keys for them online to people here at a lower rate. It's not technically illegal (hence why it's 'grey' rather than 'black' market), but publishers don't like it, and some would argue that the industry will take potentially undesirable steps to stop it (e.g. region locking games).
However, as a lot of the sites do operate through unofficial channels, there is a risk of them being stolen, as you say.
maizecorn
17 Jan 16#36
CDKeys definitely are.
Alethia
17 Jan 161#33
I have Capsule, Origin, Uplay and Steam. I am not downloading GoG for ANOTHER platform to simply access and play damn games.
ManishP to Alethia
17 Jan 164#35
GoG are DRM free, their whole concept is that you don't need to download any platform software to play their games. Just download, install and play the game.
Flemon
17 Jan 161#34
Instant-gaming and CDkeys aren't authorised resellers either as far as I'm aware - a list was published when the Sniper Elite 3 incident went down. Note, Instant-gaming was one of the sites whose customers had keys revoked (because the developer/publisher alleged that they were stolen before being sold).
That's not to say that every grey market site is equally (un)trustworthy, or that people shouldn't use them, but it's still a buyer beware situation.
maizecorn
17 Jan 161#32
Grey market keys. Often illegitimate or stolen. Sure, you get your keys, but their methods of getting the keys is the questionable part.
kibrisli7
17 Jan 16#31
I've bought loads from g2a and not had a problem
kibrisli7
17 Jan 16#30
I bought this for 7.5 using allkeyshop
BetaRomeo
17 Jan 161#29
You mean, Steam trading cards in general?
Go to your Badges and you'll see all your games which will give you trading cards.
Install and idle the games until you have all of those cards.
List to sell them for exactly the same price as their current low.
I keep trying to estimate how much I've got from my cards over the past few years, but it's not easy to keep track. However, I did have Steam wallet of over £7 available before going into the last three big sales, so that's ~£21+ over the past ~13-14 months (allowing me to get games like South Park: TSoT and Tomb Raider for free - really free, not "PS+ Free").
But for the ~18 months before that, when trading cards were worth more? Hmmm. I just didn't keep track at all. Almost certainly more than £50 in lifetime sales, though.
You might think that it's ridiculous a few 10p cards can be sold to a total of £50, even in three years, but with a few badges crafted, you increase your drop rate for booster packs - I get one roughly every month (two already this year), and those sell for the price of three cards. And foil cards can go for over £1 each (and it used to be a lot more). Thinking about it, I'd say £50 is a very conservative guess.
But if you mean, The Witcher 3 Steam trading cards? Sure, you can sell them, but you'll only get about 30p for them. Just get the game for GOG.com.
gerardarmstrong5
16 Jan 16#26
Insanely great game packed to the brim with content and its all the more sweeter witnessing its beautiful visuals at 1440p high-ultra settings at 60fps!
Dr_Bawbag to gerardarmstrong5
17 Jan 16#28
The upcoming expansion contains more than half the content seen in the full game. Kinda **** all over those arguments a lot of gamers seem to have thought up in their heads or parrot from elsewhere, about devs not being able to feed their kids if they don't charge £13 for an hour long piece of dlc.
Mark43
16 Jan 161#27
Actually yeah that's worth pointing out, you don't have to use the Galaxy client with GoG, you can just download and install completely DRM free, how can that not be a good thing!
Executor
16 Jan 16#25
Just a heads up:
I tried to pay using PayPal as a first time customer. They blocked my payment and asked me to post a photograph of my photo ID via imgur! This is a security disaster waiting to happen. It's worth noting that they want you to pay their PayPal fees as well, so it's more like £16 when they add on THEIR fees.
SackCity
16 Jan 16#24
Fair enough, I haven't seen that much. I was getting issues but I just formatted my PC and the games seem to be running well again. I've heard a lot of good about this game just don't know if I should wait a little longer or not.
SackCity
16 Jan 16#22
Get 2 x 980ti's or Titans :smiley:
Smoking173850 to SackCity
16 Jan 16#23
I would if dual cards didn't suffer from micro stutter and also some games are not compatible :disappointed:
Smoking173850
16 Jan 16#21
Think I will wait for the GOTY edition in the autum and play it in 4K if the cards can handle it by then
hatton420
16 Jan 16#20
OK well I just paid £10.45 for the GOG code from there and I'm downloading it now via the GOG downloader. So no problems for me ..
Smoking173850
16 Jan 16#19
Your a happy bunny today haha
Elevation
16 Jan 16#18
That's the thing....the whole "Achievements" thing is what Steam lovers bang on about all the time on here. Here's what I call an achievement : it's called "completing the game". Yeah remember that?! As for trading cards I don't know and also don't care as I'll never use the stupid things.
G2A aren't allowed on this site. Their method of getting keys is questionable at best.
Smoking173850
16 Jan 16#16
What do the trading cards do?
i did hear u can sell them but not sure how true that is.
Don't care about achievements asi just enjoy playing quality games
SpudUK
16 Jan 16#15
I know right? That's why I ditched the WiiU. I mean, who the hell plays games to have fun these day?
brian_lewis67
16 Jan 16#14
Bought this last time it was in a deal. Still haven't managed to get it work despite all updates and even reinstalling in correct order and updating the drivers for my GTX 960 OC.
The only game I've ever had an issue with!
Elevation
16 Jan 164#13
But....but....my entirely inconsequential Achievements!! My trading cards that I'll never ever use!! Oh the HUMANITY!!!
Smoking173850
16 Jan 161#12
I get what u mean but it's just more tidy and convenient having games all in one place.
Lazy is the word I'm looking for
SpudUK
16 Jan 16#11
Nope. GOG only key. Updates can be done through the GOG Client.
Besides, who WANTS an extra layer of DRM when you can add non-steam games to your library anyway? Single player games don't receive that many updates.
Scootss
16 Jan 16#8
drop your shadows to medium if your struggling even textures but im getting mins of 40 also set the fps to unlimited and make sure that v synch is off, do not turn down the water below high though it loses all of its charm
Scootss
16 Jan 16#5
brought it earlier from g2a for the same price been playing it all day and omfg what a game! and optimised like a boss! a8 5500 16gm ballitstix gtx950 everything high v synch off hairworks off runs smooth as butter!
nutterburger to Scootss
16 Jan 16#7
really.. 60fps? maybe I've just not got the right settings.
Mark43
16 Jan 166#6
Heat given, my GOTY.
No reason not to buy on GoG, the Galaxy client works well, no point in paying the Steam premium. Plus I guess more money goes to the publisher, and they thoroughly deserve it!
maizecorn
16 Jan 16#4
I'd get it on Steam but at its cheapest, getting both the base game and the expansion pass was 45 quid! At its cheapest it was 21 quid on GOG.
AsariMilk
16 Jan 16#3
thanks.
AsariMilk
16 Jan 16#1
why is it cheaper on the gog client compared to steam?
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Opening post
Warning : The codes are for the website GOG.com and not STEAM.
The Witcher: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game set in a visually stunning fantasy universe full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher you play as the professional monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, tasked with finding a child of prophecy in a vast open world rich with merchant cities, viking pirate islands, dangerous mountain passes, and forgotten caverns to explore.
PLAY AS A HIGHLY TRAINED MONSTER SLAYER FOR HIRE
Trained from early childhood and mutated to gain superhuman skills, strength and reflexes, witchers are a distrusted counterbalance to the monster-infested world in which they live.
Gruesomely destroy foes as a professional monster hunter armed with a range of upgradeable weapons, mutating potions and combat magic.
Hunt down a wide range of exotic monsters from savage beasts prowling the mountain passes to cunning supernatural predators lurking in the shadows of densely populated towns.
Invest your rewards to upgrade your weaponry and buy custom armour, or spend them away in horse races, card games, fist fighting, and other pleasures the night brings.
EXPLORE A MORALLY INDIFFERENT FANTASY OPEN WORLD
Built for endless adventure, the massive open world of The Witcher sets new standards in terms of size, depth and complexity.
Traverse a fantastical open world: explore forgotten ruins, caves and shipwrecks, trade with merchants and dwarven smiths in cities, and hunt across the open plains, mountains and seas.
Deal with treasonous generals, devious witches and corrupt royalty to provide dark and dangerous services.
Make choices that go beyond good & evil, and face their far-reaching consequences.
CHASE DOWN THE CHILD OF PROPHECY
Take on the most important contract to track down the child of prophecy, a key to save or destroy this world.
In times of war, chase down the child of prophecy, a living weapon of power, foretold by ancient elven legends.
Struggle against ferocious rulers, spirits of the wilds and even a threat from beyond the veil – all hell-bent on controlling this world.
Define your destiny in a world that may not be worth saving.
FULLY REALIZED NEXT GENERATION
Built exclusively for next generation hardware, the REDengine 3 renders the world of The Witcher visually nuanced and organic, a real true to life fantasy.
Dynamic weather systems and day/night cycles affect how the citizens of the towns and the monsters of the wilds behave.
Rich with storyline choices in both main and subplots, this grand open world is influenced by the player unlike ever before.
Warning: This company may require you to provide a scan of your passport/drivers license before providing the code. They're based in Hong Kong too... which means they can hold on to it indefinitely due to their data protection laws. If they ask for yours, you should really ask for a refund unless you like the idea of potential identity theft.
- btc-uk
Top comments
No reason not to buy on GoG, the Galaxy client works well, no point in paying the Steam premium. Plus I guess more money goes to the publisher, and they thoroughly deserve it!
http://www.g2play.net/category/14657/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-gog-key/
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Obviously, I refused to provide it and requested a refund, then purchased it from CDKeys.com instead.
Personally, I'd be vary wary about purchasing anything from Instant Gaming.
They aren't on Rebellion's list of approved sellers: http://www.epicbundle.com/official-steam-reseller
Keyradar.com considers them unauthorised.
Lewis Proctor (of ****) considers them unauthorised (and he's part of their affiliate program I think).
Pretty much every discussion here, on Reddit, and on steam refers to them as a grey market site.
As a rule of thumb, if the deals they offer seem too good to be true (i.e. £10 cheaper than Steam, GMG etc), then it probably is.
N.B. it's not necessarily accurate to say that most grey market keys are illegitimate or stolen (well, depending on what you mean by illegitimate). A lot of them are from countries in which the price of games is lower - people working on behalf of grey market sites purchase copies, and they sell the keys for them online to people here at a lower rate. It's not technically illegal (hence why it's 'grey' rather than 'black' market), but publishers don't like it, and some would argue that the industry will take potentially undesirable steps to stop it (e.g. region locking games).
However, as a lot of the sites do operate through unofficial channels, there is a risk of them being stolen, as you say.
That's not to say that every grey market site is equally (un)trustworthy, or that people shouldn't use them, but it's still a buyer beware situation.
Go to your Badges and you'll see all your games which will give you trading cards.
Install and idle the games until you have all of those cards.
List to sell them for exactly the same price as their current low.
I keep trying to estimate how much I've got from my cards over the past few years, but it's not easy to keep track. However, I did have Steam wallet of over £7 available before going into the last three big sales, so that's ~£21+ over the past ~13-14 months (allowing me to get games like South Park: TSoT and Tomb Raider for free - really free, not "PS+ Free").
But for the ~18 months before that, when trading cards were worth more? Hmmm. I just didn't keep track at all. Almost certainly more than £50 in lifetime sales, though.
You might think that it's ridiculous a few 10p cards can be sold to a total of £50, even in three years, but with a few badges crafted, you increase your drop rate for booster packs - I get one roughly every month (two already this year), and those sell for the price of three cards. And foil cards can go for over £1 each (and it used to be a lot more). Thinking about it, I'd say £50 is a very conservative guess.
But if you mean, The Witcher 3 Steam trading cards? Sure, you can sell them, but you'll only get about 30p for them. Just get the game for GOG.com.
I tried to pay using PayPal as a first time customer. They blocked my payment and asked me to post a photograph of my photo ID via imgur! This is a security disaster waiting to happen. It's worth noting that they want you to pay their PayPal fees as well, so it's more like £16 when they add on THEIR fees.
http://www.g2play.net/category/14657/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-gog-key/
Thanks
i did hear u can sell them but not sure how true that is.
Don't care about achievements asi just enjoy playing quality games
The only game I've ever had an issue with!
Lazy is the word I'm looking for
Besides, who WANTS an extra layer of DRM when you can add non-steam games to your library anyway? Single player games don't receive that many updates.
No reason not to buy on GoG, the Galaxy client works well, no point in paying the Steam premium. Plus I guess more money goes to the publisher, and they thoroughly deserve it!