The Witcher 3 to be completely free of DRM

Unsurprising, but still an awesome move by CD Projekt RED. Good attitude.

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt RED has confirmed its upcoming open world RPG will be completely DRM free.

Speaking to Kotaku during a GDC Interview, designer Maciej Szczesnik said "We are trying to get rid of DRM. If someone wants to pirate a game, eventually he will."

At this point, the managing director on The Witcher 3 project butted in to say: "But you can't do anything about it, so. We want to give the best user experience possible. When we removed DRM, people on those torrents were actually asking people not to download our game, because we [weren't using DRM]."

The CD Projekt RED team also appear to enjoy developing for the Playstation 4: "It's another platform, but PC-like. Which is cool."

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is set for release in 2014 on PC and Playstation 4."

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That's great. They seem to have learned their lesson from trying to extort grandmothers over TW2 piracy. Personally, I'm still going to want it from Steam though.

it is the right move.

and they're mindset of people who want the game for free will eventually find a way of pirating it, is right. some people will do anything to get something for free if they can, all you can do is buy the game and hope a lot of other people do also. it has been proven recently that bringing in measures of keeping pirates out sometimes only leads to less sales through annoyance and problems.

I am not surprised. CD Projekt RED are smart. Unlike dumb EA, investing on online DRM that was going to be a failure to begin with.

I just hope it has an auto-update feature.

Will be paying full price for it. Voting with your wallet is the best thing you can do. chrisrooR

Definitely, CDPR have built up a reputation for being a good dev who really care about their consumers and I hope that continues with TW3, so far it looks like it will and I will gladly pay full price for a game from a dev like that. 

Glad to see that success hasn't turned them into dbags.

Not that suprising, but still best news I heard all day.

Guess this makes Witcher 3 day one on GoG! :)

Excellent!

Witcher 3 now receives a seal of approval from my wallet.

Will still buy on Steam for achievements and cloud saving...

devs with a piece of brains

"Will include full Steamworks support" biggest_loser

Eh, I wouldn't take that as gospel. They said that about the Witcher 2 and it still shipped with drm. It was patched out within a few weeks to get rid of it but still, if you are going to speak in absolutes it's best to be accurate.guynamedbilly

Sorry to be Devil's Advocate here but NO DRM isn't the answer either. Why are people so fussed about DRM anyway? Games used to come with protection when they were on Floppy Disk. I agree some DRM is worse than others... but games should have some type of protection from pirates.FelipeInside

you forgot the part where drm does nothing to halt a pirate

Sorry to be Devil's Advocate here but NO DRM isn't the answer either. Why are people so fussed about DRM anyway? Games used to come with protection when they were on Floppy Disk. I agree some DRM is worse than others... but games should have some type of protection from pirates.FelipeInside

Well, DRM for singleplayer games literally NEVER WORKS. Pirates will pirate, DRM changes nothing, only creates more hoops for paying customers to jump through. 

If someone comes up with a unobtrusive form of DRM that actually works by some magical means, then sure, its good, but no such thing currently exists. 

If it comes with launch DRM like The Witcher 2 did, I will not buy it. But this sounds like it'll be completely DRM Free. If that's the case, I will purchase it on day one. If not, well, they'll probably make an enhanced edition that is completely DRM free.

Ehhh There will still be 1 million or so pirates just like The Witcher 2 and TW1. Pirates are full of it.. they say they want drm-free games yet they go around and pirate drm-free games anyways. Humans.Elann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]Ehhh There will still be 1 million or so pirates just like The Witcher 2 and TW1. Pirates are full of it.. they say they want drm-free games yet they go around and pirate drm-free games anyways. Humans.FelipeInside

If it comes with launch DRM like The Witcher 2 did, I will not buy it. But this sounds like it'll be completely DRM Free. If that's the case, I will purchase it on day one. If not, well, they'll probably make an enhanced edition that is completely DRM free.

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[QUOTE="Elann2008"]Ehhh There will still be 1 million or so pirates just like The Witcher 2 and TW1. Pirates are full of it.. they say they want drm-free games yet they go around and pirate drm-free games anyways. Humans.FelipeInside

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="Elann2008"]Ehhh There will still be 1 million or so pirates just like The Witcher 2 and TW1. Pirates are full of it.. they say they want drm-free games yet they go around and pirate drm-free games anyways. Humans.Elann2008

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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"] How can you pirate a DRM Free Game??? lol.....FelipeInside

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="Elann2008"] What are you on Felipe? :P The Witcher 2 was pirated to death and it was drm-free.  And there's an endless list of games from GOG.. that are pirated.Elann2008

Not sure if it's a game for me, but I might buy it just to show support for someone going in the right direction.

This makes an already super interesting and epicly promising game even more epic & promising! :)

Man, I can't wait for this! Haven't been THAT excited for a game anymore since the first release Trailer of Skyrim back in...2009 or 10 was it?

I hope people don't make CD regret this decision. I know I will be buying it on release day

I guess CDProject has to hype their game somehow. On the rails linear game play and a story with more holes than a sieve. I don't even think these guys have read a book before, the character development in The Witcherseries is well below the average.SKaREO

[QUOTE="SKaREO"]I guess CDProject has to hype their game somehow. On the rails linear game play and a story with more holes than a sieve. I don't even think these guys have read a book before, the character development in The Witcherseries is well below the average.Justforvisit

He trolls every thread by trashing whatever it's about