Game News Geralt Will Kick Pirates' Asses

[Ogg]

Stardock did it best; you could pirate the game, play it..BUT to get patches you needed your unique code. The scene released these patches from time to time, but essentially you were getting half a game if you pirated.

That's what CDproject did with their Enhanced Edition. See how well they were received...

 

[DraQ]

Personally I liked it.

 

[made]

Where are the news here? Aren't all publishers doing this kind of actions?

Yeah, maybe it's a novel concept in Poland though, who knows. The only beneficiary in the end is The Jew (lawyer).

They most likely get my money anyway. TW was one of the few recent games worth buying. This should be as well, unless they totally fuck it up.

 

[Destroid]

I guess they must (attempt to) fine whoever's name is on the internet plan? Regardless of if that person or even anyone in their household pirated their game. Plenty of people still have insecure wireless networks running in their homes.

 

[Serious_Business]

Now I want to pirate it just to spite them.

P. much. Anyway, I'm not informed about the subject, but I doubt this scheme will work. Otherwise I do assume another entity than some obscure polish game company would have already tried it to some good effect.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

A load of edgy motherfuckers up in this thread.

 

[JarlFrank]

In terms of anti-pirate weaponry publishers are impotent, they should concentrate on attracting legitimate customers, rather than deterring the pirates.

Which they did, at least for me. Bought Witcher 1, enjoyed it, will buy Witcher 2 because NO DRM and the CE looks p. nice. Heck, even the standard edition has lots of goodies. If games still had maps, reasonably sized manuals etc, I'd be more motivated to actually aquire a physical copy...

 

[Phelot]

Is there gonna be a demo?

 

[SCO]

Good riddance to shitty entertainment. See how many transactions you get from poor people fagots.

In fact do this for windows and macos too. The butthurt when linux reaches 10% will be glorious.

No selective applications of the law now, don't be shy.

 

[DraQ]

In terms of anti-pirate weaponry publishers are impotent, they should concentrate on attracting legitimate customers, rather than deterring the pirates.

Which they did, at least for me. Bought Witcher 1, enjoyed it, will buy Witcher 2 because NO DRM and the CE looks p. nice. Heck, even the standard edition has lots of goodies. If games still had maps, reasonably sized manuals etc, I'd be more motivated to actually aquire a physical copy...

My thoughts, but they should concentrate on capitalizing on that rather than messing around with lawyers.

Unless all the "OMG TW1 is awsum!!11" codexians start running around screaming "OMG!!! RAEP! RAEP! D: ", I'm going to buy TW2 at the nearest convenient occasion.

 

[commie]

Stardock did it best; you could pirate the game, play it..BUT to get patches you needed your unique code. The scene released these patches from time to time, but essentially you were getting half a game if you pirated.

That's what CDproject did with their Enhanced Edition. See how well they were received...

Yeah? I never remember any code for unlocking the missions or for patches. Secondly, the EE came out a year after the original, so it made little sense to have any kind of serious copy protection when the EE content was given away for free.

You don't understand how Stardock does it: to get patches, DLC like new races for their 4X games etc. you have to register your code. Such a simple thing and worked so damn well, what with the pirate version of Gal Civ II for example never being updated except for a few incomplete ripped patches that often didn't work properly. By the time pirates released the Ultimate Edition(still not fully patched, but close) the game was almost 3 years old, so it didn't matter to Stardock.

 

[Azrael the cat]

I'd have so much more respect if they just said they'd pay a bunch of guys to dress up as Geralt and friends, and beat up teenage torrenters and take their stuff

 

[DraQ]

I'd have so much more respect if they just said they'd pay a bunch of guys to dress up as Geralt and friends, and beat up teenage torrenters and take their stuff

That would at least be lulzy.

 

[Achilles]

A load of edgy motherfuckers up in this thread.

Ah but you see they're not really edgy. They are noble internet warriors who want to stick it to the man by downloading a game. Who cares that CD Projekt is nice enough to release a game without any sort of DRM? Fuck them!

This is the perfect chance for the "baw shitty drm ruining my games I'll just pirate them lol" crowd to put their money where their mouth is. Here you go, Witcher 2 will be drm free. Support them, buy the game and show the world that drm is indeed useless. Or pirate it and finally drop the pretentious crap about fighting the good fight.

 

[DraQ]

A load of edgy motherfuckers up in this thread.

Ah but you see they're not really edgy. They are noble internet warriors who want to stick it to the man by downloading a game. Who cares that CD Projekt is nice enough to release a game without any sort of DRM? Fuck them!

This is the perfect chance for the "baw shitty drm ruining my games I'll just pirate them lol" crowd to put their money where their mouth is. Here you go, Witcher 2 will be drm free. Support them, buy the game and show the world that drm is indeed useless.

So? I'm going to do just that. Do you have any other points you'd like to make?

 

[Excidium]

Excidium
Location: Third World

Legal letters, ha!

But again TW2 looks good and DRM free so I'll buy it anyway.

 

[Mrowak]

A load of edgy motherfuckers up in this thread.

Ah but you see they're not really edgy. They are noble internet warriors who want to stick it to the man by downloading a game. Who cares that CD Projekt is nice enough to release a game without any sort of DRM? Fuck them!

This is the perfect chance for the "baw shitty drm ruining my games I'll just pirate them lol" crowd to put their money where their mouth is. Here you go, Witcher 2 will be drm free. Support them, buy the game and show the world that drm is indeed useless.

So? I'm going to do just that. Do you have any other points you'd like to make?

I don't think Alexandros attacked you DraQ but the general 'I will pirate shit out of it' attitude. You still keep hearing about the people who don't buy games cause itz evul mainstream, and you support nefarious espablishment or whatnot. Well, CdProjekt Red gives all the gaming community occassion - a test of wether all the talk about DRM, copy-protection being ill-conceived trash is legitimate or not.

Their policy regarding punishing of at least small group of torrenters, which has become pretty standard thing I've been hearing, does not concern me at all. I will buy the game if the Codex declares it's good enough. I won't, if it turns out garbage. I have no intention of pirating anything from them - I do not need to. Even if the game is shit out of maybe naive respect I won't do them harm. So far they seem on totally different level than Blizzard, Biowhore or Bethesda jews.

 

[DraQ]

I don't think Alexandros attacked you DraQ but the general 'I will pirate shit out of it' attitude. You still keep hearing about the people who don't buy games cause itz evul mainstream, and you support nefarious espablishment or whatnot. Well, CdProjekt Red gives all the gaming community occassion - a test of wether all the talk about DRM, copy-protection being ill-conceived trash is legitimate or not.

Their policy regarding punishing of at least small group of torrenters, which has become pretty standard thing I've been hearing, does not concern me at all. I will buy the game if the Codex declares it's good enough. I won't, if it turns out garbage. I have no intention of pirating anything from them - I do not need to.

Sure, in this case we're talking about almost certain hit, but I'd feel all murdery if someone fooled me into purchasing, for example, oblivious.

OTOH stuff like this instantly reminds everyone of all the RIAA assholery, meaning bad PR, without actually providing meaningful leverage against the piracy.

What you want to achieve is providing stuff players will want that can't be really copied. What you really want to achieve is possibly large and widespread group of fans that will look at everyone who seems to be capable of contemplating pirating your game as if he was growing particularly large, malformed, fucking unseemly dicks out of his nostrils.

 

[Frau Bishop]

"Of course we're not happy when people are pirating our games, so we are signing with legal firms and torrent sneaking companies," CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwiński said.

Not being happy about it sounds ok, and maybe things can be done about it. But shifting money to bloodsucking leeches so they can start a war against some not so clever downloaders, no, that's not gonna work.
If it could work the whole software piracy show would have been over 25 years ago.

 

[lefthandblack]

You know, I don't give a shit about fancy collectors editions with their medallions and whatnot, but I'm tempted to buy this one just to reward CDP, for being one of the few remaining good guys.

I don't get the people in this thread screaming "YARR!" in response to this. This should be held up as a positive example for every publisher to follow. No DRM, no STEAM(ing pile of shit) and you still bitch and vow to
pirate the game.

Fucktards.

 

[Mrowak]

I don't think Alexandros attacked you DraQ but the general 'I will pirate shit out of it' attitude. You still keep hearing about the people who don't buy games cause itz evul mainstream, and you support nefarious espablishment or whatnot. Well, CdProjekt Red gives all the gaming community occassion - a test of wether all the talk about DRM, copy-protection being ill-conceived trash is legitimate or not.

Their policy regarding punishing of at least small group of torrenters, which has become pretty standard thing I've been hearing, does not concern me at all. I will buy the game if the Codex declares it's good enough. I won't, if it turns out garbage. I have no intention of pirating anything from them - I do not need to.

Sure, in this case we're talking about almost certain hit, but I'd feel all murdery if someone fooled me into purchasing, for example, oblivious.

OTOH stuff like this instantly reminds everyone of all the RIAA assholery, meaning bad PR, without actually providing meaningful leverage against the piracy.

What you want to achieve is providing stuff players will want that can't be really copied. What you really want to achieve is possibly large and widespread group of fans that will look at everyone who seems to be capable of contemplating pirating your game as if he was growing particularly large, malformed, fucking unseemly dicks out of his nostrils.

Agreed. I too don't like it that they advertise their 'anti-piracy' policy in such ham-fisted manner. Providing extra content that could not be coppied with a game, winning the hearts of their gamers (I hate the word fans - keep thinking of electrcl devices) with wise policy from which their community actually benefits instead of just being told their benefit (aka. Biowhore) is the key imo as well.

However, the thing is with the GoG release where all of the elements will be available for digital download and will more than likely be accessible on torrents on day one. It's common sense that they take such countermeasures - humans are stupid shits that will screw over their brothren when permitted to. CDP Red just don't have to talk about it in public. The stick does not have to be obvious to be effective. Oftentimes it's the other way round.

 

[Achilles]

What Mrowak said. Many people in the past have claimed that they only pirate games because of shitty DRM. Well, this is their chance to show everyone that they mean it. The stakes this time are very high and I think everyone who is interested in the game should think really hard about the possible consequences of a high piracy rate. To put it simply, if Witcher 2 ends up selling 100000 copies and gets downloaded 4 million times, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) is going to use that as an indication that no drm equals commercial suicide.

Please note that no amount of the usual justifications ("it's a shit game and I pirated to see how shitty it is", "I torrented it to demo it", "I have money to buy a modern PC but not 45$ to buy a game") is going to save us from the DRM shitstorm that the publishers are going to shove up our asses - not to mention that we should rule out any chance of a top-tier PC exclusive game appearing ever again.

 

[DalekFlay]

What Mrowak said. Many people in the past have claimed that they only pirate games because of shitty DRM. Well, this is their chance to show everyone that they mean it. The stakes this time are very high and I think everyone who is interested in the game should think really hard about the possible consequences of a high piracy rate. To put it simply, if Witcher 2 ends up selling 100000 copies and gets downloaded 4 million times, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) is going to use that as an indication that no drm equals commercial suicide.

Please note that no amount of the usual justifications ("it's a shit game and I pirated to see how shitty it is", "I torrented it to demo it", "I have money to buy a modern PC but not 45$ to buy a game") is going to save us from the DRM shitstorm that the publishers are going to shove up our asses - not to mention that we should rule out any chance of a top-tier PC exclusive game appearing ever again.

Indeed.

I try not be Preachy McPiracybad, but in the end the vast majority of people downloading games are using bullshit justifications to get things free that they should pay for. This is really a moment where those people need to shut the fuck up and pay up, otherwise the messages against DRM and for PC gaming exclusives will be all but destroyed. Welcome to the streaming content and console-only future.

 

[Elwro]

Maybe some new investors want to see some additional "risk control" on part of the devs, and that's what it's all about. I highly doubt Iwinski would consider sending letters to torrenters as an effective strategy...

 

[hanssolo]

pirates gonna pirate, DRM has never had anything to do with it.

isn't going to kill the industry. isn't going to have any effect at all.

 

[godsend1989]

Indeed.

I try not be Preachy McPiracybad, but in the end the vast majority of people downloading games are using bullshit justifications to get things free that they should pay for. This is really a moment where those people need to shut the fuck up and pay up, otherwise the messages against DRM and for PC gaming exclusives will be all but destroyed. Welcome to the streaming content and console-only future.

Can you feel the "Flower Power" in the air ?!?! My justification is fuck you, if you feel guilty then fucking buy it and stfu.