{"id":82564,"date":"2015-10-16T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82564"},"modified":"2015-10-16T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:34:45","slug":"use-exploits-in-the-witcher-3-and-the-taxman-will-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/82564-use-exploits-in-the-witcher-3-and-the-taxman-will-get-you","title":{"rendered":"Use exploits in The Witcher 3 and the taxman will get you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first-text\" data-textannotation-id=\"f7eb7f293b2fcd25f366907458553dda\">Did you know that in <em>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt <\/em>there are a number of methods worth exploiting for quick coin?\u00a0Some of these exploits, for example, involve players harvesting large quantities of hides and pearls for gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-text\" data-textannotation-id=\"f7eb7f293b2fcd25f366907458553dda\">CD Projekt RED know that players are using these exploits, and with the introduction of a new expansion for the game, called <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/81075-the-witcher-3-wild-hunts-first-expansion-hearts-of-stone-detailed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hearts of Stone<\/a>, have introduced a solution of sorts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-text\" data-textannotation-id=\"f7eb7f293b2fcd25f366907458553dda\">What solution, you may be asking? Well, in the new expansion, for all your money making schemes a tax man is beset upon you.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"02d017fa06f160a172a8c80d14ba1eec\">YouTuber\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tjR9Op33SxQ\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsMyGame<\/a> posted this video showing his playthrough of\u00a0<em>Hearts of Stone <\/em>and the exact moment he&#8217;s\u00a0interrupted by the aforementioned\u00a0tax collector.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tjR9Op33SxQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"02d017fa06f160a172a8c80d14ba1eec\">The tax collector knows about all your\u00a0undeclared income and the means you used\u00a0to get it.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"e74f62c55d31cffe4c46ea5a5d8a5e79\">He knows about all your actions, using the exploits, including killing cows around White Orchard, stocking up on pearls, and he wants to deal some punishment, which is a huge fine might we add.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"e74f62c55d31cffe4c46ea5a5d8a5e79\">However, it must be noted that your judgement isn&#8217;t necessarily set in stone. The tax collector will actually question you about whether you&#8217;re guilty of your crimes or not.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"e74f62c55d31cffe4c46ea5a5d8a5e79\">There&#8217;s an opportunity for\u00a0 a special &#8220;reward&#8221; for being honest with the tax collector.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"e74f62c55d31cffe4c46ea5a5d8a5e79\">Whilst other studios would rush to patch such exploits and criticise gamers, CD Projekt RED has found a creative and enjoyable way to deal with these exploits.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/witcher-3-sends-taxman-after-players-who-used-exploit-1736590388\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More on The Witcher 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to The Witcher 3\u2019s patch v1.10, its largest yet: 15GB in size\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/82278-the-witcher-3s-patch-v1-10-its-largest-yet-15gb-in-size.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Witcher 3\u2019s patch v1.10, its largest yet: 15GB in size<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to The Witcher 3 was cheaper to produce than you might expect\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/81173-the-witcher-3-was-cheaper-to-produce-than-you-might-expect.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Witcher 3 was cheaper to produce than you might expect<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt\u2019s first expansion, Hearts of Stone, detailed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/81075-the-witcher-3-wild-hunts-first-expansion-hearts-of-stone-detailed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt\u2019s first expansion, Hearts of Stone, detailed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resulting in a rather enormous fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":82568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2122,16144,13473,1969,8657,183],"class_list":["post-82564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-exploits","tag-hearts-of-stone","tag-news-2","tag-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82570,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82564\/revisions\/82570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}