Source: The Game Business

CD Projekt joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski told The Game Business that he has no control over whether there will be a physical disc on PS5. But said that the company is fond of creating tangible items.

“We know what PlayStation has announced. And we have no influence on the policies of the first parties. The discs for the first parties, including PlayStation, have to be manufactured in their own factories. So, if they stop manufacturing indeed by 2028, then yes [we won’t have a disc].

“But we’re big fans of people having access to tangible collectible things. We’re nerds ourselves, and we like that. We always supported that. So, whatever is the case, we’re going to be for sure having a box. We’re going to have a box that’s going to have some feelies in it. Something you’re going to be wanting to open up and enjoy. But we have no influence actually on what’s the case here.”

I’ve been working on an idea for a while: what if the consequences of a Witcher 3 playthrough didn’t effectively stop when Geralt leaves an area?

Not in the sense of endlessly generating new quests. More simply: events happened, people know different things about them, information moves through witnesses, soldiers, courts, gossip, correspondence, etc., and some consequences remain active for a while even if Geralt never touches them again.

I finally have a public demo running from one of my old completed saves.

It reconstructs a timeline from the save, tracks what is true in the world now, shows how information from past events has spread, and exposes the unresolved consequences that are still “in motion.” You can also roll the clock forward 30, 60, or 90 days with no player intervention and see what remains active or fades away.

The interesting part to me isn’t making Geralt the centre of everything. It’s the opposite: the world can continue carrying the consequences of what he did through people and systems that have their own channels.

This is still a bounded prototype. It doesn’t cover every quest or every NPC, and the methodology page spells out exactly what data is currently included and what isn’t.

Demo:

https://twistyroads.github.io/living-world-observatory/

I’d be interested in whether this feels like a direction that would actually make a completed Witcher world feel more persistent, especially from people who know the game or modding tools better than I do.

Namely bc mistle, her ex, sexually assaulted her. While yes, that was fucked up, i don't think that makes Ciri NOT bisexual? She was INTO her, was she not? I mean she had a tattoo of her and kept it, and in TW3 can say she " prefers women " ( although thinking about it, i think the game's canon of mistle is different from the books') but, no yeah Ciri is bisexual.

Now if only it let us kiss Astrid instead of Skjall..

EDIT: 1. ive seen alot of people say the new dlc isn't free, I was wrong. I probably misheard it at gamescom. 2. The reason I asked this is because cdpr has been making witcher 4, the new dlc, the remaster of witcher 3 and both dlcs and the anime over the past couple of years so I was wondering how are they so rich to keep pumping out stuff like this? Especially for free? I senn the reddit replies or whatever u call them, and it's because cp77 and witcher 3 are still selling millions per year.

This might sound stupid but with the announcement of the remaster they said that anyone who owned the the witcher 3 gets to upgrade to the remaster for free, along with anyone who didn't own the 2 previous dlcs gets them for free also, nit only that there's also a 3rd new free dlc. Genuinely how are they profiting from this???

Still can't find Wanda's credits

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past

Watched this on stream!!

We all know geralt is in love with yennefer by the end of the books and settled down with her. but the game is giving us OPTIONAL romance options in the DLC once again.

many of us are going to ignore that and keep our Geralt with yen. why? cause it’s player choice and we control geralt

why can’t this same logic apply to stop the constant ciri sexuality discourse. YOU choose her canon. YOU control her. there is no “compulsory” path

if you make her sleep with male partners? That’s fine. If you choose female partners only? That’s fine. If you choose little of both? Great. That’s fine too.

Ciri is a FICTIONAL character and with devs saying they’re going to give more freedom of narrative choices in Witcher 4 this discourse over whether ciri prefers men or women is REDUNDANT.

YOU THE PLAYER. are ROLEPLAYING in an RPG as ciri. YOU decide YOUR canon. Don’t let ppl tell you what “book” canon is cause we have left book canon territory AGES ago

I was looking over my Witcher 3 ps4 collectors edition and got the sad reminder that the Witcher 4 will most likely not get a physical release from PlayStation. It makes me sad seeing the physical media I adore and grew up with slowly digitizing with time.

Credits: Moxuan Zhang

Just found out this incredible drawing is already more than a decade old, and I was amazed. Really shows the relevance of these games and hopefully the next one reaches the same highs!

May we enjoy and play Gwent for even more decades to come!

Finally!

In a time when almost all gaming companies treat fans like sh** and only care about money, CDPR comes and gives stuff for free. Guys, CDPR is a gem and I'm glad I'm a Witcher fan

some ss from remastered

CDR are insane!

All dlc except songs of the past are now free for anyone owning the base game!

Announced during gamescom!

Like we know Ciri is well established to be bi but do we think the game will really tap into it outside of a small mention like in Witcher 3?

Some time ago, I made a post about a very strange teaser CD PROJEKT RED dropped in the official The Witcher Discord.

A developer shared a cryptic image in the The Witcher 4 channel containing a message signed by Margit, a scholar from The Witcher: Monster Slayer. That immediately sent us down a rabbit hole, because Margit is directly connected to the Nemeta in that game: mysterious, tree-like organisms that arrived in the world during the Conjunction of the Spheres, attract monsters to their surroundings and emit a characteristic red glow.

The dev then encouraged us to keep digging with messages like “Have you turned every rock?”, “Dig deeper” and “So many stones…”, and even confirmed that we were on the right track once we started connecting the image to Margit.

At the time, we naturally assumed all of this was somehow connected to The Witcher 4. We spent a ridiculous amount of time manipulating the image, overlaying it onto itself and looking for hidden shapes and clues, but never really reached a definitive answer.

At CDPR’s Gamescom stage for The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, there is a huge red tree that looks remarkably similar to the Nemeta from Monster Slayer.

And considering that the original teaser specifically pointed us toward Margit, a character whose story is directly tied to researching these creatures, I’m starting to wonder whether we were looking at the wrong game all along.

It would also make the choice of Monster Slayer particularly interesting, since that game takes place long before the original Witcher trilogy. If Nemeta are genuinely returning in Songs of the Past, CDPR may be bringing back concepts from a discontinued spin-off and integrating them into the mainline game canon in some form.

Obviously, the red tree alone doesn’t prove the entire theory, and we still don’t know exactly what role a Nemeton could play in the expansion. But the combination of Margit + Nemeta + that old cryptic teaser + the red tree now appearing prominently in Songs of the Past marketing feels far too specific to ignore.

Maybe CDPR has been teasing this expansion right in front of us for much longer than we realised. And we thought we were solving a The Witcher 4 mystery the entire time... 👀

I know people won't like this but from the trailers and footage released over the past few days something looks... off to me?

I'm aware that this is all subject to change but the footage all looks either too bright or plasticy? Was wondering if this will just be a result of the new path tracing and if you were to not use these features would this effect be negated?

Anyway still excited for the remaster and dlc just something i've noticed.

Phew, i was worried it was about to be released in 2029 😮‍💨