If you haven’t lastly cracked into The Witcher 3 after three months of lockdown, maybe you by no means will. Still, this newest provide from GOG would possibly make you rethink, as from now till June 23rd, they’re making a gift of free GOG copies of the game to anyone who’s purchased it on different platforms, resembling Steam, Epic Games Store and Origin – even PS4 and Xbox One copies are eligible. Best of all, your save file and achievements will switch over, too.
The course of is straightforward sufficient. Just load up the GOG Galaxy 2.0 client (in case you’re nonetheless labouring away on 1.6 as I used to be, you’ll want an replace) after which hyperlink the account the place your present model of The Witcher three lives. Once the account is linked, discover it in your games library and press the ‘claim’ button. Both disc and digital copies are eligible, so there’s nothing stopping you borrowing a PS4 or Xbox One copy – besides honesty and that complete worldwide pandemic factor, in fact. You have till June 23rd to attach accounts.
I ought to word that you simply’ll solely get a free model of the version you already personal – so which means no cheeky upgrades to the season-pass together with Game Of The Year version in case you’ve solely acquired the common version of the game. If you do personal the GOTY version on one other platform, although, then you definately’ll get the GOTY version on GOG as effectively.
There’s just one exception: the Nintendo Switch (aka: The Switcher) version. That’s annoying, since The Switcher already has a cross-save perform with the PC model on Steam and GOG, however apparently “there is no Nintendo Switch integration” on GOG.com, so Switcher gamers gained’t have the ability to obtain a free copy of the game on PC. Booo.
For everybody else, although, it’s a somewhat neat package deal. GOG says that your in-game progress on different platforms – achievements and save state – shall be transferred over, and also you’ll additionally get additional digital freebies together with an prolonged soundtrack with 4 bonus tracks, official paper toys and digital comedian e-book The Witcher: House of Glass (as if the game itself wasn’t lengthy sufficient).
Actually, there’s one different factor that may cease you in case you have a PS4 copy like me. There’s a well-known bug that stops you connecting your PlayStation account to GOG that’s been a difficulty since GOG 2.zero was born. Luckily, in case you do occur to run into an error that claims “The connection to the server times out”, there’s a solution on the GOG forums which labored for me, although it’s fairly lengthy winded. Guess you’ll need to resolve how a lot you desire a PC copy in case you’re coming from PlayStation Land.
