The Witcher developer CD Projekt has confirmed that their new game will be DRM free, and that the PS4 version will be easily ported over from PC because of the console’s PC-like architecture.
Said game designer Maciej Szczesnik, speaking to Kotaku:
"We are trying to get rid of DRM. If someone wants to pirate a game, eventually he will."
Managing director Adam Badowski chimed in:
Which is bad, of course. But you can’t do anything about it, so. We want to give the best user experience possible. When we removed DRM, people on those torrents were actually asking people not to download our game, because we [weren't using DRM].
On porting the game over to PS4, Badowski said:
"It’s another platform, but PC-like. Which is cool."
Back in February, Badowski also confirmed that the new console from Sony had created a lot of opportunities for innovation.
"The new hardware gives us the opportunity to create something great. We are able to work with the new console from its birth and this allows our in-house REDengine 3 to push the graphical limits of what the PlayStation hardware can display. The console is fresh and has some innovative solutions that we’re looking forward to using in our game."
"Always online DRM", meaning that you NEED to be connected to the internet to play the game. Which makes no sense whatsoever considering the Witcher is a single player RPG.
I'm excited to see what this game will bring to the table.
