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Upon reading The Witcher 2 publisher Namco Bandai's pro-Ubisoft-DRM spiel, we imagine a decent many of you probably did double-takes as you put two and two together over and over again – always reaching the same confounding result. The Witcher 2. With DRM. Does. Not. Compute. After all, developer CD Projekt heads up Good Old Games. That's about as anti-DRM as you can get.
Namco Bandai and CD Projekt are separate entities, however. And fortunately, this is one instance where left hand and right aren't quite in agreement.
“Our distributors commented [on] the Ubisoft-like DRM securilty solutions, and we’re receiving a massive feedback about applying such in The Witcher 2,” read a post on CD Projekt's Facebook account. “There’s nothing to worry about, as nothing is decided yet.
“And still, it’s a private opinion. You know CD Projekt RED’s opinion about DRM, right?” the developer added, referring to Good Old Games.
That tree-demolishing gust you just felt? That was thousands of Witcher fans breathing a collective sigh of relief. Thank goodness, too. Geralt's not the handsomest guy around, but his ugly mug's still a far prettier sight than a big, game-obscuring “Connection lost. Please wait.” screen.
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isamuelson
June 02, 2010 at 12:55pm
From what I remember though, the first Witcher when it was released had DRM. I don't believe it does anymore (or at least, there was a patch to remove it).
To0nces
June 02, 2010 at 5:55am
Sigh of relief? I don't see a single thing saying they WON'T include that invasive DRM. Just that nothing is decided yet, and CDProjekt doesn't like DRM. That doesn't mean the publisher won't demand it be included. CDProjekt doesn't have direct control over this as it's the publisher doing the distribution and if they require it to be included, CDProjekt doesn't have much of a choice unless they can somehow back out and go to a different publisher. But I kind of doubt that Namco Bandai doesn't have some contracts in place already giving them the distribution rights.
Here's hoping that Namco listens to the community feedback, but there's nothing to say they will.
