14 DAY TRIAL // CD Projekt, the developers of The Witcher, are announcing that their game has sold more than 1 million copies since the release date of October 2007. This figure includes both the sales of the original game and those generated by the newly released Enhanced Edition. 1 million is a big figure for a game that came from an unknown Eastern European developer, based on a series of novels with a limited audience in the West.
The guys at the company can clearly appreciate good humor as the press release they sent out says that “Scientific research has proven that those sales numbers are quite good for a debut game based on a relatively unfamiliar IP from an unknown studio on a 'dead' platform”. They add having spent more than 11 million dollars developing the role playing game and the 1 million copies sold mark means that they have made a nice profit on their initial investment.
Adam Kicinski, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the company, stated that “The success of The Witcher has ensured that we’ll be able to make the games we want – and the games that fans want – for the foreseeable future, and the amazing response we had from the gaming community to the Enhanced Edition really reinforced that we’re on the right track with our development philosophy”.
The Polish company is now working on launching Good Old Games, a service aiming to offer players PC games which are now classic. They will be offered DRM free and with all the patches and tweaks required to play them on Vista or on XP. You can get the original Fallout games and titles such as Operation Flashpoint or Freespace 2 on Good Old Games.
There is also talk about another big project from the company that would see them creating something for gaming consoles for the first time, but no details are available.