He probably realized that the salespeople selling him DRM were intentionally misleading him to it's efficacy, I can respect realizing that spending the money you were spending on the totality of your DRM was less effective than just spending it on making a good game. Of course it would be better if he hadn't believed that piracy = lost sales, but at least he eventually learned.
Can't release something that isn't cracked, it's against scene rules. That's why if there's a Steam and a GOG version of a game, the scene release is always the steam version because it had something they could crack. If the game is only available 100% DRM free then Fairlight, Razor, Codex etc won't touch it.
I believe Witcher 2's DRM was an in-house solution, because if the game detected it's not a legit copy, it would do weird things in-game which would hinder the progress instead of outright refusing for the game to run, as is the case with the conventional DRM solutions like SecuROM or Denuvo. Kinda like what R* and Croteam did with GTA and Serious Sam.
The time spent making modes and features your paying customers will never see is inherently non-productive.
Arkham City had something like this as well. I bought that game that still had some bullshit invisible wall lock me into a room after Ra's al Ghul's first trial because it thought I had pirated the software.
This is definitely a scam, since even the Steam version of Witcher 3 was completely DRM free, it didn't even need Steam to be ran. Some other red flags: the site the survey's on (which on it's own is a big red flag) is your classic "totally legit Scene group site", and anyone that knows something about the Scene is that they don't have any official sites and their releases pop up on sites through leaks, so all sites using names of Scene groups are a 100% certified scam. And CDPR's games don't consist of a single >300MB .exe file and a single folder titled "Data". In fact, no games have this structure, and the only games that have an .exe this big are games with Denuvo, and there is no way that CDPR would add that at the last minute before release, after preaching their usual anti-DRM rhetoric. And the size of the torrent? Dummy data, which is a bit more effort than what scammers on The Pirate Bay do.
Ironically, that screenshot reminds me of the Witcher 3, which makes me optimistic that this game will be good. An absolute mess technically speaking on launch day, but good.
The fingerless glove meter always gets me no matter how many times I see this posted
He believed what most gaming CEOs believed. What set him apart was that he was presented with evidence to the contrary, decided to take a risk, and found success with TW2 DRM free, and following that the gog platform.
The "press x not to die" pop up is what throws me into a laughing fit
Looks like I have to put my money where my mouth is.
Let me guess, Circumcised and Uncircumcised penises.
So, disliking CEOs and other bureaucratic fucks that are conveniently hypocrite and have no principles turns into a Twitter SJW, ok buddy, whatever you say buddy.
