Canadian Copies of Witcher Missing CD-Key

[jpublic]

From this (http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=619034) thread on the Atari Forums, it has become clear that the Canadian copies of The Witcher are missing the CD/Registration Key required to register the game on CD Project RED's site (but not to actually play the game).

It appears that this ONLY affects the Bilingual copies of the game, with the double-length manual. The code, which should be on the last page of the manual, doesn't appear at all.

Players are advised to contact Atari (http://www.atari.com/us/support/supportemail/supportemail_form.php?productName=The+Witcher&osType=WINXP)for possible resolution.

I ran into this myself, and I have to admit it pisses me off.

Update: Atari support is sending out Reg Codes to those who request them through the link above.

[NationalKato]

But you could still play the game, so not a big deal?

[grandepolloloco]

You can register games?

[Adain]

If you can get past the constant crashes on vista, sure you can play it. Just don't expect for longer than 15 mins. Its a good game, but suffers from stablity issues.

[Skampy]

I bought sim city 4 on day one and my cd key didn't work. The store i bought it from wouldn't exchange it either.

[Heretic Machine]

Honestly dude... what the fuck is wrong with this hobby? It seems like every release is marred by some problem or another these days.

[[Jez]]

Runs rock solid on a XP machine, I think the problem might be that it suffers from Vista issues :)

[TrackZero]

It appears that this ONLY affects the Bilingual copies of the game, with the double-length manual. The code, which should be on the last page of the manual, doesn't appear at all.

Here's my experience...EVERY copy of a damn game in Canada is Bilingual. So yeah, chalk another one up in the "fuck Canada over" category.

[total]

Honestly dude... what the fuck is wrong with this hobby? It seems like every release is marred by some problem or another these days.

TEH PIRATES! IT IS ALL TEH PIRATES!

[WastelandDan]

once again our Northern brethren receive the shaft.

[jpublic]

But you could still play the game, so not a big deal?

The problem is that CD Project RED is planning to (or has already) released extra content on their site for the game. Also, certain site functions are only open to accounts that have a registered game linked to them.

Yeah, you can still play, though.

[Kweli]

Hilarious

People complain when the activation requires to much...
Now.. People complain when theres no activation at all

Im sure they will rectify this... Why complain if your playing the game?

Geez, this world is filled with complainers

[total]

Hilarious

People complain when the activation requires to much...
Now.. People complain when theres no activation at all

Im sure they will rectify this... Why complain if your playing the game?

Geez, this world is filled with complainers

Yeah, fucking people wanting what they paid for. The gall is un-fucking-believable. I mean, when I buy a cd and it includes itunes downloads but the itunes downloads don't work I should keep my mouth shut right, after all I can still listen to the cd.

[Kweli]

Stupid example..

You bought a game... You can play the game - no issues here

Any other issues will be fixed by the distributor like they always are... Any benefit of the CD-key is non-existent right now anyway..

[BlackPete]

[EDIT] Never mind, didn't know what I was talking about.

[total]

Stupid example..

You bought a game... You can play the game - no issues here

Any other issues will be fixed by the distributor like they always are... Any benefit of the CD-key is non-existent right now anyway..

So if you buy the collectors edition of any game and it doesn't come with anything but the game, you have no right to complain?

[Serapth]

Gee thanks Quebec. Why wont you people just give it up and switch to English???
I kid, I kid

[Philonious]

Hey... To all Canadians: Buy it online from Atari, it costs $10 less and you don't have to have the DVD in the drive to play... AND you get the registration code. A rare win, win, win situation.

[total]

Hey... To all Canadians: Buy it online from Atari, it costs $10 less and you don't have to have the DVD in the drive to play... AND you get the registration code. A rare win, win, win situation.

I am all for buying games online, but I would be hard pressed to buy anything from Atari (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38735&highlight=atari) online right now. Seems they are on shaky ground yet again.

[MacD]

My god, but if Atari didn't screw the pooch YET AGAIN.

Such a shame, too. The game itself is damn good (and anyone who liked planescape: torment will agree), looks/plays great and runs solid as a rock on XP (I've had ONE ctd, and that one was probably my fault for overloading my system with running programs and alt+tabbing at the wrong moment).
Vista requires a hotfix (apparently one which many vista games require).

Anyway, as mentioned, this isn't such a great problem; people can play the game, it will only take a while for those people hit to get the extra content (and the editor! Comes out in a few weeks: Whee!).

Atari sucks, CD Project RED r0x0rs my rpg b0x0rz.

-edit-
I found a sad little factoid on this game: the polish to english translation was BUTCHERED. The dialogue in the Witcher is decent to great, but sometimes it feels a bit disjopinted. The reason behind it is that due to voiceover costs, the english translation has random cuts to make the lines shorter. Read the link to hear from one of the translation proofreaders to read what might have been, and feel sad that this game could have been even better. This is page two (page 1 strats it off and gives one or two other mistranslations), which has the proofreader hop into the thread:

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=915112&topic=39278731&page=1

Most telling [courtesy of Gerrard_W]:
"FUN FACT
The Polish voices.bif is 627MB
The UK one is 478MB
There goes 25% of dialogue."

[Philonious]

I am all for buying games online, but I would be hard pressed to buy anything from Atari (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38735&highlight=atari) online right now. Seems they are on shaky ground yet again.

Download it an burn it to DVD. You still don't need the DVD to play and you're paying less.

[total]

Download it an burn it to DVD. You still don't need the DVD to play and you're paying less.

If you can do that with this service you are in good shape.

[51|RandoM]

I have a reg code, haven't bothered using it.

As far as stability goes, run it on XP instead of Vista and you'll take care of the majority of stability issues.

[randir14]

-edit-
I found a sad little factoid on this game: the polish to english translation was BUTCHERED. The dialogue in the Witcher is decent to great, but sometimes it feels a bit disjopinted. The reason behind it is that due to voiceover costs, the english translation has random cuts to make the lines shorter. Read the link to hear from one of the translation proofreaders to read what might have been, and feel sad that this game could have been even better. This is page two (page 1 strats it off and gives one or two other mistranslations), which has the proofreader hop into the thread:

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=915112&topic=39278731&page=1

Most telling [courtesy of Gerrard_W]:
"FUN FACT
The Polish voices.bif is 627MB
The UK one is 478MB
There goes 25% of dialogue."


That sucks but I guess it shows how good the game is, 25% of the dialog is missing but it's still great.

[Adain]

;1077608']Runs rock solid on a XP machine, I think the problem might be that it suffers from Vista issues :)

Oddly enough the problem seems to be related to a combination of Vista, TAGES, and sata drives. The best part is you can get rid of alot of the crashes by running a virutal IDE drive with a mini image.

[lockwoodx]

From this (http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=619034) thread on the Atari Forums, it has become clear that the Canadian copies of The Witcher are missing the CD/Registration Key required to register the game on CD Project RED's site (but not to actually play the game).

It appears that this ONLY affects the Bilingual copies of the game, with the double-length manual. The code, which should be on the last page of the manual, doesn't appear at all.

Players are advised to contact Atari (http://www.atari.com/us/support/supportemail/supportemail_form.php?productName=The+Witcher&osType=WINXP)for possible resolution.

I ran into this myself, and I have to admit it pisses me off.


My UK copy came with a CD key.




If you can get past the constant crashes on vista, sure you can play it. Just don't expect for longer than 15 mins. Its a good game, but suffers from stablity issues.

I get those crashes too(vista business), but only when trying to save a game and it's completely random. What's worse is it erases the save file it was trying to create so your stuck back tracking when the crash hits.

[Philonious]

If you can do that with this service you are in good shape.

Yeah, it's more like D2D than Steam... I like Steam better, but if I had even the slightest concern that Valve would go out of business I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Until game prices are adjusted to match the current value of the Candian dollar all my PC games are being bought online.

[Gedd]

This is one of the best RPG's i've ever played. Runs flawless on my XP Pro x64 system as well. My only complaint about it is the strange autosave system (seems to autosave whenever it feels like it, quicksave is always avail though) and the load times when zoning are a bit lengthy at times.

Quicksave isn't exactly "quick" either, but iirc the Neverwinter games had the same load/save times anyway. Must be an engine thing.

As was said several times already though, the CD key is only if you want to register online for support. Else, it's not needed to install/play.

[jpublic]

I am aware you don't need the code to play. Heck, I put it in the Oirignal Post. However, considering how important the manual (and other sources) mke registering out to be, it would be nice if we actually *could*.

What makes this worse in my mind is that a solution for this is in the hands of Atari Technical Support, who are not known for being very useful.

[KingGorilla]

Gotta say, the download version would not suffer from this.

[Chainblast]

I'm glad the stability issue kept me from buying. Hopefully both are resolved in the near future as I would love to jump into this game.

[Johan]

Gotta say, the download version would not suffer from this.

At least you're consistent!

[Greenghost]

I've put in about 14 hours of playtime on my pc running vista. I think i've had about 6 or 7 CTD's in that time mainly when transitioning from one area to another.