Witcher 3 PC downgrade

Are you a legal professional or do you know one that has experience dealing with consumer and commercial cases?

You ask steam for a refund.

Nope.

That would just be a breach of contract.

They have been showing videos like this for months right?

I am quite offended now.
I have a game that I cannot play for whole hour without a freeze.
I have to save often so when freeze happens I can load it without replaying much of what I already played.

Workarounds? I tried many different things and nothing helped yet. I got pissed and went to plat something else. I will continue to try to fix the game tomorrow.

I do not imagine a perfect game with these kind of bugs.
And even without them there is a lot of things that bugs me. Like dubbing, mini map quest guide, camera, simple moving and horse riding.
Everything I just stated could be much better and is better in other games.

But without freezes I would certainly love the game and I would spend several hours playing without a break.

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CD project red fan boy alert.

I am well aware of laws concerning false advertising and this one fits nicely under that category. Not sure what country you live in but where i live its illegal.

Yeah its been downgraded from that and they tried to keep it quiet as long as possible by not sending out the review copies for PC until a fucking day before it was released. But the Consoles got it a week before.

Well could you explain how it fits nicely in that category.

The FTC doesn’t list any criteria and video games (Think Mass Effect 3 have gotten away with worse).

I had a ton of trouble running this with my GTX 970 I’d bought just for this game, had to drop it down to medium to play at steady FPS and it was freezing to the point I couldn’t play it. But then I looked up a fix and apparently by going into the NVIDIA settings and turning off ‘power save mode’ I could suddenly max it and experienced no more glitches.

I’m honestly very happy with the game and its state, with that out of the way. I think you can expect there to be some trouble and glitches with all the possible rigs and little settings involved with PC nowadays. Especially for a big and complex game like this.

I don’t really care. Why is this acceptable to you on any level? Are you okay with a company give us a shitty console port and lying to us for YEARS about what the game will actually look like.

Also you can’t rebind the fucking keys
 IF thats not evidence enough this is a garbage console port i don’t know what is.

And your many posts and arguments shows me that you’re not better.
Do not be ridiculous! :smile:

You link a Wikipedia article?

why don’t you stop being ridiculous. You put Skyrim fan boys to shame so stop commenting if you’re going to continue to defend a company that is clearly in the wrong.

Oh apologizes i forgot how smart you are which source would suffice for you?

The fact of the matter is, if EA or Ubisoft had pulled this garbage you guys would be crucifying them. But since its CD project red you guys refuse to admit its shitty what they did.

I have GTX760 2GB and i’m running the game on low/middle and one or two on high, only NPC’s are Ultra. My FPS is between 40-55
AND you will not believe, it freezes too after 5 or 6 hours.
Okay CDPR is shit. You’re right! And now?
What now? Tell me!?
Going to CDPR and spit in his faces?

Nice but i’ll go to my pawn shop for same discount
 whatever steam beats everything :smile:

No. Wait for Star wars battlefront and IF it’s going to be a crappy game:
Riot at EA
Riot at CDPR
RIOT EVERYWHERE

You’re one person. There is a large portion of people who bought the game reporting poor optimization and bugs. Thanks for confirming crashing WHICH SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING. Lets also throw in you can’t rebind keys which just proves its the epitome of a console port.

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That’s not what I said nor something I implied.

I just think that a slight downgrade in visual quality compared to alpha footage a year ago does not qualify as false advertising. On a scale with blatant lying on one end and “redbull gives you wings” on the other end this needs to cross a certain point at which is does indeed become lying instead of exaggerating, does this reach that point?

How does it not. They lied to us about what the finished product was going to look like. And its a pretty radical difference.

Completely ridiculous comparison. Unless you’re a brain dead fish you know red bull doesn’t actually give you wings. The showed a PC version but in reality gave us a down graded console version.

“Please keep in mind that the game is still in production phase. Certain things are still being worked on. The final version of the game will look better than what can be seen in the latest screenshots – no matter the platform. As you probably know, when publishing screenshots, some of them can be subjectively less appealing than others (depending on one’s opinion), that’s perfectly normal. The most important thing here is that the game will come out looking gorgeous when we are done working on it. There will be no downgrade.”

"There will be no downgrade"
Read more: http://wccftech.com/the-witcher-3-graphical-downgrade-final-version-pc/#ixzz3anrIXkAP
But now they’re back peddling and saying they regretted the upgrade. Hell they’re even adding patches for graphical pc upgrades. But of course they didn’t tell us this until after the game came out.

Read the quote from one of the Witcher devs. Its blatant lying. The pulled a Watch dogs and disabled the high end PC settings. People are finding them and turning them on. So that proves that they intentionally gimped the PC version. Weather they were payed by Microsoft to do this or they had some other reason they lied to us.

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So we’re getting graphic updates in the first week(s) after the release? That’s kinda questionable indeed.

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I think there is still hope.

Yeah man i told you. I wasn’t just ranting and pissed off for no reason. CD project red even admitted it was a big fuck up. They rushed the game out. they should have delayed it until they had a separate PC version instead of giving us a crap console port.

I got a very defensive very snarky vibe from that interview. The Witcher dev didn’t seem to keen on admitting they shouldn’t have lied to us. I would have gained more respect for him had he admitted yes we lied, yes we downgrade because of the consoles but we’re going to try to fix that.

But all i saw was excuses. Yeah sure its great they’re going to patch it but why not just delay the game a little to make sure the PC version is up to par?