The Witcher 3 DRM-free on PC; 'gamer-friendly' solution sought on consoles
The Witcher series a action role-playing games be reaching further than ever before, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launching simultaneously on PC, Xbox One 'n PlayStation 4 in 2014. The new consoles have been mired in discussion over DRM (digital rights management) recently, with Microsoft instituting connectivity requirements t' play games, 'n PlayStation sailing away publishers t' decide how t' control the sale 'n resale a their content. The Polish developer behind The Witcher, CD Projekt RED, now tries t' find an ideal incarnation for it be publicly asserted values, which be staunchly opposed t' DRM a any kind.
"I can only talk about our intentions; we don't have any agreement finalized yet," CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwiński tells me, carefully choosing his words. "it be all quite early 'n we be finding out about it this week, at the conference. But our intention, obviously, be t' choose the most gamer-friendly solution." In CD Projekt's perfect world, those solutions would be aligned with their PC- 'n Mac-based digital distribution platform, GOG.com, where games be 100 percent DRM-free. "Whatever the solutions will be for our partners, we choose something ideally as close t' what we have on GOG as possible."
"I can only talk about our intentions; we don't have any agreement finalized yet," CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwiński tells me, carefully choosing his words. "it be all quite early 'n we be finding out about it this week, at the conference. But our intention, obviously, be t' choose the most gamer-friendly solution." In CD Projekt's perfect world, those solutions would be aligned with their PC- 'n Mac-based digital distribution platform, GOG.com, where games be 100 percent DRM-free. "Whatever the solutions will be for our partners, we choose something ideally as close t' what we have on GOG as possible."
