Dear Steam team and folks at Valve Software generally,

Firstly, thanks for all the nifty sales over the holiday season. That was really quite nifty, even though there were obviously some problems arising from the large number of units sold.

There’s one special present that you could give us all, however, even though it seems like a very, very, very minor thing.

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Play It Now!I’ve already spoken well of The Witcher, but without going into much in the way of detail. It’s time to remedy that.

The world of The Witcher, created by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, has been widely translated into numerous languages and adapted, into film, television, graphic novels, and a video game. It’s the video game that concerns us here.

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Play It Now! I’ve written about this particular game before, but I’m actually going to go back and revisit this one since I’ve put a bit more time on it.

I think I’ll start with the phrase “magnificently flawed.”

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Something I rummage through periodically are the search results that people use to get to this site. A lot of people come here through the site appearing in amongst this or that search result. Some of them are obvious, some of them are weird.

A few are lurid, and then there’s one commonly recurring set that is particularly lame.

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