How do I know if I have GOTY or not?

[Ben]

I'm trying to download some mods but there's difference versions for non-GOTY 1.31 and GOTY 1.31. I bought the game back when it launched, along with the season pass, but steam says I own both GOTY and non-GOTY if I browse the store. The game in my library is simply called "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt".

When I launch the game though, it says welcome to game of the year edition...

If you bought GOTY, does it actually say GOTY in your library?

[Lucas]

GOTY = Base game + DLCs

[Ben]

Not for modding. There are coding differences between the base game + DLC and buying the actual GOTY, but the content is all there on both.

Someone who bought the actual "GOTY" edition recently, does it label your game as GOTY in your steam library?

[Go0lden_Archer]

Originally posted by Lucas:

GOTY = Base game + DLCs

[tonypa]

Originally posted by Tyrindor:

Not for modding. There are coding differences between the base game + DLC and buying the actual GOTY, but the content is all there on both.

Someone who bought the actual "GOTY" edition recently, does it label your game as GOTY in your steam library?

There is no GOTY version of the game.

GOTY edition is just a package to sell 3 separate items slightly cheaper. To qoute from GOTY edition Store page:

"Items included in this package
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone
The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt"

These are exact same items you get from buying each 3 items separately or buying base game and expansion pass.

[SleepySkunk]

Apologize for the necro, but anyone looking to this thread for answers (as I did) is going to come away with misleading information at best.

When modders talk about the GOTY version of the game, they are referring specifically to the GOTY version sold on GOG, which does have some script differences from other versions of the game. You only have the GOTY version if you downloaded and installed that specific version from GOG.

If you bought the game on Steam, you have the non-GOTY version as far as mods are concerned, even if you bought the Steam GOTY Edition (as the previous commenters are correct insofar as the Steam GOTY is just a bundle of game + dlcs).

[Klaus Ze Flammenwerfer]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

There is absolutely no difference between the normal base game AND expansions and the GotY edition. They are exactly the same. Same content, nothing added. The GotY version was just a marketing thing to sell to people who had waited to buy the game in the past 17 months.

If you own the base game and the expansions, you own the GotY edition. People who bought the GotY edition got all of the free DLCs and the two paid expansions along with the base game and all of the numerous patches and hotfixes that were released since game launch.

Both editions got the 1.31 hotfix. All that had were a few minor fixes and some Turkish language support that was left out of the GotY physical edition. So they gave the hotfix to everyone who owned the game.

They have different coding you utter uneducated "c"u"n"t" don't judge stuff you do not know

[Stake From JateFarm]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by Klaus Ze Flammenwerfer:

They have different coding you utter uneducated "c"u"n"t" don't judge stuff you do not know

Hey a$$hole, they have different AppID codes because they are packaged and sold separately. It's the same freaking game. Love it when some moron comes on and pretends to be a know-it-all and just demonstrates how stupid and uninformed he is.

Did you even read? GoG has GotY

[v0]

i think he prob means goty on gog's different from goty on steam as far as modding's concerned. which's indeed so iirc. though BB above says difference only applies to patching so maybe i'm mistaken.

[vikingman33]

Originally posted by v0:

i think he prob means goty on gog's different from goty on steam as far as modding's concerned. which's indeed so iirc. though BB above says difference only applies to patching so maybe i'm mistaken.

No BB likes to make alot of comments about things he does not understand. From looking at his comments he seems to like to talk about the game alot for someone who supposedly hasen't played it since 2016. He seems to have a Love-Hate-Hate relationship with the game and seems to feel he knows alot about how the game works from playing back in 2016 and because he's apparently read all of the Witcher books.

From a coding perspective the two versions of the game are ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY DIFFERENT in some of the coding. I know 3 different developers of games from the past and they have all played the game and looked at the coding differences between versions and there are significant but not major differences. As far as weather this makes a difference in mods downloaded and used, there is one mod that will tell you exactly what will probably happen if you install the wrong version of the mod for your game version although the fix for it is simply a matter of downloading the correct version of the mod and installing/extracting it and letting it overwrite any of the files it says are the same in the mod directory for the mod.

For ultimate simplicity it's best to get the mod version that aligns with whichever version of the game you have from where you got it, either on Steam or on GOG. And not all or even most mods need to have two different versions. It mainly had to do with mods that need a binary file copied into the game install folder so menus that can be used with the mod will show up in the games mod section.