CD Projekt details Witcher 2 DRM usage on non-GoG versions

No DRM becomes some DRM. A bit of a disappointment. Mostly because the thing I hate most about DRM is locking you out of your game till some magical clock somewhere says so. It’s just poor customer service.

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As long as not require always on internet connection DRM is fine.

yeah… How about I don’t play the game altogether.

Just buy it on gog.com to “escape” the dreaded DRM…

If they’re just worried about a leak, then I suppose they don’t mind patching it out the day it goes live?

@4 That don’t make no sense.

DRM is stupid and pointless. The people who pirate these games are never the ones who would actually pay for them.

The DRM always gets cracked and the people who would pirate them, end up pirating them anyways.

Its like making automatic rifles illegal to prevent crimes. The only people who are going to commit crimes are criminals and they’ll just buy them from other criminals, making the law pointless and stupid.

Does logic not even enter the minds of these game companies? DRM only affects the paying customer, the very ones who won’t steal their crap.

That’s a pretty flawed analogy.

Most of you sound irrational! They have a right to protect their intellectual property and compared to most DRMs, this sounds nothing. And I bet you have each games in your collections that use much worse DRMs that Witcher 2′s sound.

Nobody’s saying they don’t have a right to protect their stuff. Legally they do, within reason.

But the fact that far too many publishers challenge our rights as consumers in doing so, means that DRM goes from being a question of combating pirates, to a matter of principle for the indignant consumer. Pirates couldn’t care less, they crack it within hours.

If people can protect their games without bothering me, I’m fine with that, I love Steam, and secuROM is certainly one of the lesser evils.

The problem is that CD Projekt ARE GOG, and GOG have been running their mouth about the evils of copy protection ever since that operation got running, even using it as a major marketing ploy.

The fact that they do a 180 and put this in their game doesn’t make them look good. And like I say above, if they’re really genuine about what they say, then it’s very easy to patch it back out, as many other developers have done before them.

Bizarre. I can perhaps see the point in this sort of time release drm for disc copies, but why other digital platforms? They all must have pre-load and game release systems by now surely?

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THere are actuals laws prohibiting one store having a direct competition with brick and mortar stores thats why there are release control. The countries have placed physical edition rules on digital goods because if the digital version was released days or weeks prior the physical version it would destroy the brick and mortar stores.

Also if publishers did this ,stores would stop ordering that publishers games.

They never said there wasn’t going to be some copy protection in non-GOG versions, and like GwynbleiddiuM said, this is a rather “good” DRM. It is not intrusive to restrict the game’s availability *before* the game is released and five systems with unlimited installs should be fine. What others do wrong is they actually interfere with the experience once you should be able to enjoy it. Like always-on connection and such examples. Sure, some people will crack it, but I see no reason to do it.