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Witcher 3 studio:"piracy was irrelevant"

I was pretty astonished When I got my hard copy day 1 and realized that I could distribute it as many times as I wanted. Didn't though, that's my sacred possession. Loving Blood and Wine right now!

 

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Not to mention: how many people choose to pirate to avoid egregious DRM? Reminds me of the time I had to pirate a blu-ray I owned because the laptop I was playing it on didn't have HDMI, so HDCP was preventing me from using the thing I spent good money on.

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I've been saying that piracy doesn't hurt sales for years

no one ever, to this date, has compiled actual verifiable data to prove the contrary

 

someone even went to the extent of setting couple or Raspberry Pi to copy a song then delete it, couple of million times, over and over - to prove the music industry is full of shit

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piracy ftw

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10 minutes ago, othertomperson said:

Not to mention: how many people choose to pirate to avoid egregious DRM? Reminds me of the time I had to pirate a blu-ray I owned because the laptop I was playing it on didn't have HDMI, so HDCP was preventing me from using the thing I spent good money on.

I pay for Crunchyroll but yet don't use their service, but I download hurriblesub's rips (which are from Crunchyroll) and store it on my plex server.

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Keep in mind CD projekt red also is one of the few groups that actively dmca's cracking/piracy groups, and has actually managed to keep availability low of the torrent, because most of these guys hilariously enough do actually comply with the dmca.

It sounds super backwards, but last time I was researching cracks, it came to my attention that for such a damn popular game, it had almost no safe torrents on any of the major groups' sites, which struck me as really weird, so i looked into it a little further. Turns out they just keep dmca'ing the torrents as they pop up.

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It always makes me laugh when a company says it lost X amount of money based on X amount of people pirating pirating their product, like there would be just as many people that would have considered it worth the full asking price rather than free. They probably lose some money to piracy, but anti piracy practices probably also makes them lose some potential costumers.

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And this is one of the reasons why I bought this game., because CD projekt red is an awesome company. 

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finally a company that uses its head and listens to what people have been saying for a long time

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More and more reason to love CD Project Red!

 

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they only have this mentality because everyone I know from Poland never ever bought a single game or movie when it wasn't necassary (only for online shit like battle.net in diablo etc.) ...I think this is just a healthy attitude towards the gaming community which is why I support them a lot, witcher collectors and regular version cost me like 180EUR and i regret nothing. Although back then my cousin gave me the witcher 1 for "free" :D

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Also played Witcher 1 for free when it came out, but later bought the Enhanced Edition and the Collectors Edition of The Witcher 2. And hey, Witcher 3 comes with an offer that beats all other resellers on launch when you own the previous ones? That's a company service beating piracy, instead of the other way around.

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Here's the video interview btw :

 

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No shit. The aggressive efforts of the media industry against piracy stinks of greed and desperation to avoid even a perceived loss in profits. It has nothing to do with seeing that the content creators or rank and file professionals get their fair compensation.

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2 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

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While people are being sent to jail for imaginary crimes by the big studios, the developers over at CD Projekt Red, makers of the Witcher series, tell us a different story than what our corporates masters wants us to believe:

 WUT???

So you're telling me that as a developers or publisher, if i am fair to the consumer and give them a good product, people will lean more toward buying mt stuff instead of pirating it? That i don't even need DRM stuff taking a toll on performance to see a positive income? That a pirated copy doesn't mean a lost sale?

NO WAY! The fat cats know what's the true right way of doing things, this guys are just being hippies /s

 

source: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/07/19/witcher-3-studio-talks-piracy-says-it-was-an-irrelevant-factor/

One of the only games I haven't pirated we're games that I knew that I would be playing for thousands of hours, even a few  years..

GTA V, Minecraft, CS:GO, Gmod.

And it was decently priced here in Canada.

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1 hour ago, Atmos said:

Keep in mind CD projekt red also is one of the few groups that actively dmca's cracking/piracy groups, and has actually managed to keep availability low of the torrent, because most of these guys hilariously enough do actually comply with the dmca.

It sounds super backwards, but last time I was researching cracks, it came to my attention that for such a damn popular game, it had almost no safe torrents on any of the major groups' sites, which struck me as really weird, so i looked into it a little further. Turns out they just keep dmca'ing the torrents as they pop up.

good strategy

aggressively go after the torrents rather than relying on drm.

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Gotta love CD Projekt RED, they even have a popup at the first start of the game that thank you for buying the game. :) 

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Meanwhile, at Square Enix (Or almost any other major game company; take your pick):

 

"BLASPHEMY! Strike them down with the force of 1000 copies of Denuvo! The status quo MUST be upheld."

 

 

Or something like that. I don't know.

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Yea plus pirating certain content lets people get known. I got to find tons of artist, by file sharing websites, artists that I wouldn't have found if I was just looking at random stuff on the web.

 

Plus most of the time, I tend to purchase movies, when I watch them on kodi, becasue I don't want to use internet all the time.

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If only the movie studios would catch on to this and actually allow me to back up the media I bought to my HTPC instead of having to go pull out the disc every time I want to watch something. (I know you can get around that, but that is what the movie studios are trying to accomplish, and are successfully doing it with UHD Blu-Rays ATM).

 

Making your product so extremely inconvenient that it's infinitely better just to pirate it is not the way to reduce piracy. How about don't screw over the people who are actually buying the content and see what happens?

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10 minutes ago, Shakaza said:

Meanwhile, at Square Enix (Or almost any other major game company; take your pick):

 

"BLASPHEMY! Strike them down with the force of 1000 copies of Denuvo! The status quo MUST be upheld."

 

 

Or something like that. I don't know.

Part of it is the desire to control access to content and the other is that they have to answer to shareholders. Shareholders that don't bother to actually understand the markets they're investing in, they just care about how much money a company is making them and making sure the company keeps making more and more and more.

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CD Projekt Red are my favourite developers. I love GOG too. Preordered No Man's Sky there. DRM free is the way forward!

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