CD Project RED will not use any DRM in future PC games, reports
Joystiq, saying the Polish developer made a statement to that effect today during the Game Developer's Conference. The company most recently took a stand on the topic with
The Witcher 2, selling a DRM-free version on GOG.com and
removing the DRM from the retail version when it caused problems, prompting
a lawsuit from Namco Bandai. "Every subsequent game we will never use any DRM anymore, it's just over-complicating things," said CD Projekt RED CEO Marcin Iwinski. "We release the game. It's cracked in two hours, it was no time for Witcher 2. What really surprised me is that the pirates didn't use the GOG version, which was not protected. They took the SecuROM retail version, cracked it and said 'we cracked it'." After his presentation, Iwinski expanded on his thoughts for Joystiq. "DRM does not protect your game," he told them. "If there are examples that it does, then people maybe should consider it, but then there are complications with legit users."
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Kosumo wrote on Mar 9, 2012, 16:54: I read and understood the story, my point being that if they are only worried about their paying customers, and I have no intention of paying them (never played any of their games) they are taking away any road blocks (no matter how small) to people grabbing this for free and then say that they feel justify doing so due to there being no protection in place.
This could be a good thing for them in the way that their product may get seen by a greater number of people. The down side is that people my just see this as "free to play" due to no protection what so ever. Even with DRM the situation is already "free to play" as you say. I don't see how simply foregoing DRM is like an announcement that stealing the game is ok. The only people that are going to hear this news anyway are people that already know that every game is easily pirated... Turning off the DRM doesn't change anything for them/us except buy good will. |
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