While we’re still getting a ton of free DLC content for Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, including cosmetic upgrades for Geralt and Yennefer as well as a playable contract. All of which were to be given away in hopes that it would change abusive business practices surrounding post-launch add-on content.
However the DLC train won’t stop there, with two new pieces of DLC announced for the highly anticipated Action RPG set to be released as part of an Expansion Pack priced at $24.99. Included is the Heart of Stone mission which is slated for an October release in which Geralt is sent into the wilds of No Man’s Land and the city of Oxenfurt to complete a contract from the Man of Glass. The second part, titled Blood and Wine, which is set for the first 3 months of 2016 and will open up a new territory and features “a land untainted by war, where an atmosphere of carefree indulgence and knightly ritual masks an ancient, bloody secret.”
Of course people may be thrown off by the DLC considering CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwiński stance on DLC, and it’s something that he understands. “While we’re offering the Expansion Pass now, we want to make one thing clear: don’t buy it if you have any doubts. Wait for reviews or play The Witcher and see if you like it first. As always, it’s your call.”
However the team does believe that this content will be worth the extra change as it will add another 30+ hour to the game’s already extensive gameplay limit. “With the development of Wild Hunt coming to an end, the team has embarked upon the creation of two new really big adventures set in The Witcher universe,” Iwiński said in a Press release. “We remember the time when add-on disks truly expanded games by delivering meaningful content. As gamers, we’d like to bring that back. We’ve said in the past that if we ever decide to release paid content, it will be vast in size and represent real value for the money. Both our expansions offer more hours of gameplay than quite a few standalone games out there.”
Witcher 3 is due on May 19th on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.