when does this start and how do you access it?

April 17, right here.

EDIT: Ninja'd out of the blue!

Dont forget you can also pre load the Enhanced Edition now as it is 10Gb in size :

http://en.thewitcher.com/enhancededition/

Going to start my pre load now as my net connection is pretty slow!

One of my copies is version 2.0 (other is some collector edition type with coin n stuff), any ideas how much of a download size it would need to become "enhanced"?

It's about 10 GB to patch 2.1 to Enhanced.

thanks guys.

ive already did the pre-load, took 10 hours on my connection -.-

Crikey! OK mate cheers :), y'know its weird, A 360 disc will hold a bit less than 7 gigs and just the upgrade to enhanced for PC is 10 gig's, makes you wonder what they did to make it fit on a 360 disc....unless its a 3 discer.

When CDPR update, they update. When the Enhanced Edition for the first Witcher game came out it made headlines because it was almost unheard of to release such a major overhaul as a free patch.

So, isn't it time you guys tell us what we'll need exactly to register the game on GOG as well? Obviously we'll need the cd-key, but there was a rumour a few days ago on the W2 forums that we'll also need proof of purchase or something?

I wish they would release a seperate d/l for the "enhanced", something that I could back up seperately and keep with my discs, JIC gog go out of business or I cant get internet/ chane PC for some reason, at least I would still have access to it.

Either way, I'll still get the 360 version I guess.

I was looking in google for the witcher 2 backup and I see now it is open. Is this the official page?

http://www.gog.com/en/witcher2/backup/

Nice! It's ON :)

Awesome, redeemed my retail key :)

May I ask when can GOGers backup their updated version?
In other words when will the install files be updated to EE?