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Article #721003Re: From the Witcher 3 developers
From: John Slade
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:40
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:40
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On 6/9/2015 10:16 AM, John Lewis wrote:
> Posted on Facebook 3 hours ago, (9 June 2015)
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> hmmm..... completely DRM-free too, at least if purchased from GOG...at
> exactly the same price as all the other download sources. Just before
> the game was released, GOG stated thet there were 1.5 million
> pre-orders.
I purchased the game from Amazon and it uses a GOG
installer. Seems however you buy the game it's going through
GOG. They even have a new client that allows for achievements
and such. A few free DLCs can also be had through GOG.
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> Seems as if there are far more honest PC-game purchasers than are
> usually credited by our resident Steam-DRM fanatic.
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> The sales numbers certainly seems to justify CD-Projekt's/GOG's faith
> in the honesty of their customer base. How refreshing !
I have to agree with this one, GOG and their DRM free
model is what has me buying more games than I have since the
90s. Very good to see that the paranoid game developers are
wrong. My theory is that even some of the people who pirate the
games actually buy them too. Of course there are those pirates
who will never buy the game no matter what so they aren't really
costing the game developers money. The claimed losses due to
piracy are very exaggerated IMO. This just goes to show if you
put out a quality game, people will buy it.
John
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