"The Witcher 3" was not originally called "Wild Hunter". It was finally confirmed after several adju

2025-06-02 21:49:37|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

Once upon a time, "The Witcher 3" wasn't called "Wild Hunt", CD Projekt Red had tried multiple names for this new work - and we just dug up several candidates that we had never heard of before.

“I like Northern Lights,” said Mishael Pratkov-Kirevsky, vice president of PR and communications at CDPR. “It was called The Witcher 3: The Northern Lights. The name didn’t even get into the logo design stage, it was just written on the whiteboard for a while.”

He also revealed that he had the name "A Time of Axe and Sword" and was once regarded as the "final candidate".But this name is a bit difficult to pronounce.

"That's right!" Pratkov-Kirevsky said in a review interview for the 10th anniversary of The Witcher 3, "so it was quickly rejected. I remember writing a document to list the final name and betting with my colleagues how long the name will last."

“It didn’t last long,” he added, “until we thought of Wild Hunt…”

When the studio tried the name "Wild Hunting", everyone felt it was just right.It not only directly echoes the core threat called "Wild Hunter" in the game - the group of ghost knights who are chasing Ciri - but also makes people intuitively feel the theme of the game regardless of whether the player understands the original setting or not.

This was exactly one of the big considerations of CDPR at the time: attracting new players.Don't forget that in 2013, there were very few people who knew about the Witcher series, the development team, or the original novel of Angeli Sapkowski - the first two Witcher games sold only 5 million copies in total, an order of magnitude different from the current 60 million copies of Witcher 3.At that time, Netflix's "The Witcher" series had not yet been released.

For potential players, the "3" in the title of the game may be discouraged: those who have not played the first two episodes will worry that they need to complete the previous work before they can get started.Because of this, the game logo was adjusted during the promotion period: from the conspicuous number "3" to three symbols similar to sharp claw scratches."We realized in the middle of the publicity that many people were asking, ‘Do I play? Do I need to play the previous one?’ So we decided to change the '3' in the center of the logo to the claw mark symbol on the Aridin helmet," Pratkov-Kirevsky explained.

Ten years later, the name "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunter" has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.But we can't help but wonder: if we had changed our name, would it affect its current legendary status?

Now we are looking forward to the new work "The Witcher 4" - although it has not yet been officially announced, it has entered the stage of full development and is expected to be released after 2026.The new work will feature Cili as the protagonist, and will become the absolute core for the first time after being the "quasi-co-protagonist" in "The Witcher 3".Although this decision has caused some controversy, developers, including Geralt English voice actor Doug Cocker, have publicly expressed their support.

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