Success of Netflix's 'The Witcher' makes players pick up 'Witcher 3' again

Netflix original series Witcher just dropped on December 20. Initial reviews suggest that series is alrey a big hit with fans, in fact, series was such a hit that it has evoked feelings of stalgia within gamers so that y are picking up game  Witcher 3: Wind Hunt and playing it again.

rise in concurrent players

12 years ago, gaming company CD Project Red released first game in Witcher series after final Witcher vel came out in Poland in 1999. success of first game prompted two equally successful sequels in form of Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings in 2011 and Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015. Witcher game franchise is one of best role-playing games of this century and it has a fair share to award to prove that and is also an ambitious fantasy tale on par with books that inspired m. Each of games contains hundreds of hours worth of story that has delighted gamers for deces.

With much-anticipated release of Netflix series on December 20, show watchers seem to be returning back to ir gaming consoles to dive back into world of Witcher. According to statistics December 19 recorded only 12,745 concurrent players for game Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, jump forward a few days after release of Netflix series Witcher jumped to more than 47,000 per hour on December 22. number of concurrent players jumped threefold in a matter of days and that is quite a feat for a game that came out back in 2015.

months leing up to release of Witcher series saw an aver of 20,000 players with peak player count in October being 20,385.   peak player count in month of August was 25,591, peak player count for month of December was 47,441.

series showrunner Lauren Hissrich has stated in an interview that source material for show is Andrzej Sapkowski‘s books, but fans of both series and games have claimed to seen similarities and subtle ds towards game in series.
Le actor Henry Cavill who plays Geralt of Rivia in series has said that in order to get into he of character he was playing he played games, as a part of his character research.

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' Witcher' season 2

Just days after release of Netflix's Wicher, fans are alrey demanding and looking forward to season 2. good news is that Witcher has alrey been renewed for a second season which means that fans of Henry Cavil's portrayal of Gerald of Rivia can look forward to seeing more of White Wolf. 

While re is release date for season two just yet but Showrunner Lauren Hissrich alrey confirmed that re will be a second season, renewal for a second season was anunced on vember 13, 2019, which is a full five weeks before Witcher season one even dropped meaning that even before its worldwide release Netflix alrey predicted that Witcher would be a smashing hit with fans.

According to sources, filming and production for season two is supposed to begin in early 2020 with a release date sometime in 2021. It has also been confirmed that Henry Cavil will be returning as Geralt of Rivia as well as Anya Chalotra who plays sorceress Yennefer and Freya Allan who plays Cirilla.

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