http://truepcgaming.com/2011/09/20/r...com-interview/
CDPR / GOG interview: Discussing PC Piracy, DRM and DLCs
Unfortunately the situation doesnt change that much in this matter. Big publishers are putting restrictive DRMs on their products, because they are scared their games will be heavily pirated, and thats understandable. But unfortunately that doesnt protect those titles from being pirated, because there hasnt been a DRM scheme that havent been hacked.
We believe that there are other ways to fight piracy. Giving an incentive to customers to spend their money on a legal game rather than punishing them with intrusive DRM is what we believe a better way. Thats why we release all games DRM-free and thats why CD Projekt RED decided to release The Witcher 2 on GOG.com DRM-free as well. Lets give people reasons to make them buy those games. Of course there will be people pirating games, but they wouldnt buy those games any way, so theyre not your target audience. Lets focus on real gamers, respect them and they will give it back.
There are two types of DLC now. The first group consists of new content that is developed after the game release and ads new experience to the gameplay (see Battlefield Bad Company Vietnam for example), and Im totally fine with that. If you like the game its a cool thing to have couple more hours of gameplay. But theres also the second group which gets bigger and bigger where developers just cut parts of the game and offer them as a paid DLCs. Thats really not fair and no wonder gamers are pissed about that.
Treating customers fair is the most important thing for us. Thats why for example all DLCs that were and will be released for The Witcher 2 by our sister company CD Projekt RED, are free to all customers. And we believe thats how it should be done.






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