Witcher 3 - B&W is What DLC Should Be

ThisGenGaming explains why Blood and Wine is everything a DLC should strive to be, and why we should be especially excited about this latest effort from CD Projekt RED.

Now the other day the final paid expansion for The Witcher 3, Blood and Wine, was detailed and given a release date of May 31. Blood and Wine is part of the $25 season pass or if you didn’t buy that you can pick it up for $20 or $18 if you pre-order it now. Now let me just go ahead and tell you that the amount of content in Blood and Wine that you are getting for as low as $18 trumps what some entire games ship with for $60. The expansion was described by the studio as “basically a new game” and they aren’t kidding. Let me throw some facts your way: 30+ hours of content, 90+ new quests, 40+ points of interest, 14,000 lines of dialogue, 20+ new monsters, 100 new armor pieces, 2 hours of new music, New Game Plus Level increased to 100, 30+ new weapons, New UI, 12 new abilities and more. All of that is pretty incredible but the new area of Toussaint is as big as all of the Skellige’s islands from the main game combined. Oh and the graphics in the expansion have been improved over what the base game looked like.

When you look at all of that and see that it only costs $18 it makes just about every other games DLC look like a joke. That is a massive amount of content and it shows why I personally think CD Projekt Red is the best in the business at giving players their money’s worth. More developers really need to take note of The Witcher 3’s example and give players more bang for their buck. I’ve heard some people saying that Blood and Wine could be their Game of the Year for 2016 and it’s hard to argue against that when you see this much content in an expansion.

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