> The Witcher 3, we released the game without any protection. On day one, you could download the game from GOG and give it to a friend on a memory stick – it works. And still we sold near to 10 million units across all platforms. The piracy factor was irrelevant, because we cannot force people to buy things, we can only convince them to do it. We totally believe in the carrot, not in the stick.
Does it work on Linux? I could buy it just to support the idea.
Jonathan Ramirez
>By June 2015, over 690,000 players activated copies of the game through GOG Galaxy.
690k just on GOG Galaxy.
Brandon Cooper
>DENUVOfags on sucide watch
Asher Sanders
based poles
Ian Howard
This only works if your game isn't a piece of shit, so most of them can't use this strategy.
Jason Brooks
get back to your containment board
Hunter Long
>And still we sold near to 10 million units across all platforms.
>across all platforms.
Ryder Young
To be honest I'm glad this DRM shit happened, it helped me to grow out of video games.
Andrew Wright
And? You can't buy reputation.
Benjamin Baker
Sold more on PC than on consoles combined, apparently. I don't believe it though, no numbers were given.
Landon Sanders
i thin it's winblows only
Gabriel Williams
dude look out geralt is about to murder you
Brody Anderson
>implying anyone but the jewiest of distributors cares about muh DRM anymore
Jack Richardson
Damn marcin.
Also not Sup Forums
Daniel Long
How to drm: 1: Don't be a shit company 2: Release your game with heavy drm 3: Rerelease it a month later with no drm Watch in amazement as nobody cracks your games anymore because there's no fucking point. >most people who were going to pay have already paid >Pirates get to pirate a drm free version and praise you for this But what do I know I'm a faggot
Adam Johnson
>I'm a faggot At least you're right about that.
Tyler Perez
>But what do I know I'm a faggot You truly are.
Tyler Collins
Or just do this and you can make money without being a faggot
Leo Thomas
>But what do I know I'm a faggot Yeah, you're right. Only a Jew would know about how our retarded economy works.
David Turner
*teleporst behind you*
Landon Russell
>Watch in amazement as nobody cracks your games anymore because there's no fucking point.
>And still we sold near to 10 million units across all platforms
And Rockstar/Bethesda sell several magnitudes more.
Carter Reed
CD PR is the rare exception where the attitude towards the consumer pays off.
But you all keep forgetting few important things. Before Witcher 3 CD PR was not a well established brand in the western markets, so their "no drm policy" is was a very successfull attempt at creating a good image for the company. Before Witcher 3 release CD PR was an LLC without any foreign shareholders that would dictate what the company should do. Now it's changed since they entered the WSE. Compared to media behemoths like Rockstar and Bethesda, pre-w3 CDPR was indie-tier developer that could do whatever they fuck they wanted.
And to achieve such success without the use of DRM you are forced to release products that aren't garbage, which is what many studios just cannot afford to do.
Connor Moore
underrated, this is important
The "just trying it" excuse is legitimate whether you fags agree or not
I've bought at least 20 games after pirating them first to check for quality and performance
Kayden Powell
This carrot was rotten as fuck though. Shitty game
Charles Ortiz
Yeah but I don't think Witcher 3 cost 250 million $ to make.
This shit works by the way. I pirated Borderlands because it had no DRM either; years later I realized I put so much hours into it that I might as well buy the full version with all dlcs, and the sequel too.