CD Projekt DRM Interview

Eurogamer has an article-style interview with CD Projekt’s CEO and co-founder Martin IwiÅ„ski, talking about the company’s general attitude towards DRM, which is to say, they don’t believe it works.

IwiÅ„ski added: “It’s a crazy thing. Gamers legal customers buy the game and you are limited with your ownership, while the illegal alternative has no limits. This is totally not fair and totally stupid.

“Why should I buy this legal version if it’s inferior in a certain way? I’m not saying it’s a problem for everybody, but for a lot of people it is. In games like The Witcher, you don’t need to be connected to the internet to play. There are a lot of games like that.

“But with a lot of protections you have to be online. You have to be connected constantly or you cannot play. I know the internet is everywhere, but if you go on holiday and you have a laptop and you don’t have an internet connection, it means you cannot play your games. I think it’s not fair.

The article closes by providing some confusing numbers on Baldur’s Gate’s sales on Good Old Games, saying it “sold 18,000 copies, up from the 3000 average”, without providing a timeframe or telling us what this average is referring to.

Thanks, RPGWatch.