And what about Assassin's Creed 2?

Witcher 2 had both DRM and DRM - free copies in sale. DRM was fully lifted some time after the launch though.

Both Witcher 1 and 2 had some DRM but they removed it with patches after some time.

Also this "news" is like 1 year old: LINK.

Online is pretty much the one time you don't need DRM - you are already not able to connect to the server with the duplicate key or whatever the kids use these days.

Also if companies only used DRM within reason these things would never be an issue in the first place :p

Probably because of SimCity's always online DRM.

OP is bravest OP in all the land.

EA is literally hitler.

Really? You really believe that milions of people who pirated previous games will BUY Witcher 3? Stop fooling yourself :P

There will always be piracy no matter what they do. Or really bad press as we have seen lately.

And I thought it was the DRM-version which was pirated not the DRM-free gog ;D

I prefer no DRM, but I love Steam as a distribution platform. I like having all my games in a single convenient place.

I still prefer GoG DRM.

And future microtransactions.

I dislike you realists. Always so correct.

Yeah, I'd still buy ME4 from EA, but that is a special case. I can restrain myself from their other franchises until they show a change in their ways (i.e. no longer lying to justify draconian DRM)

Nowai

Or, you can't ignore/pirate those games (except when you want to play multi) and spare your money on games like Witcher 3 ;) I know I won't spend a single cent on anything related to Mass Effect after you know what.

Around 3,647 people use this script which highlights 3rd party DRM that is used on Steam, so we can avoid buying it. Probably many more people are watching out for bad DRM, since most people don't bother with/know how to find and use such scripts.

Dead Space is dead. They didn't get enough sale, so they are killing project.

The fact that you didn't mention Dragon Age greatly disturbs me.

Hey calm down, i was just making a reference to SimCity's DRM...

All DRM oversteps its boundaries. All DRM limits the paying customer's experience - unless there's some DRM design I'm not thinking of at the moment.

The Witcher 1&2 are DRM-free, but they have a Steam version too :)

They'll be on Steam. But you will also likely get a key to activate on GoG for a DRM-free version.

+1 from me. DRM on these kinds of games never stops the "end user" pirate. Just hit up your nearest torrent site and there's a version with all the DRM removed by some dedicated expert. DRM only ever interferes with the play experience of legitimate buyers.

id hesitate to be honest... cdp arent exactly flawless in how they treat their customers... do you remember when they yanked down their forums for about a month after the game came out just so that they wouldnt have to deal with any concerns or problems people were experiencing? i thought that was a pretty shoddy move on their part to be honest. the game was pretty good, but i think their treatment of customers leaves a bit to be desired, along with the fact the game will most likely be censored again in some regions...

i want witcher 3, but after witcher 2's launch treatment, i feel kinda uncertain trusting them to be honest... which is a pity, because my respect for them was on such a massive high after the first game which i simply adored. i guess its just unwise to ever trust any publisher on their own merits, only each individual game on its own.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Steam is not DRM. Steamworks is drm. Steam is just a store, and in that store there is even drm-free titles.