Building brand trust requires more than just deft PR. CD Projekt RED shows us how it’s done. Earlier this year, people discovered that Polish developer CD Projekt RED was taking legal action against pirates of their game The Witcher 2. After deciding not to use any DRM to protect their IP, the developer instead hired […]
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Namco Bandai says that DRM talks are still underway for the upcoming Dark Souls PC port.
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Don’t let the whole Games For Windows Live news get you down: Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition for PC is going to be amazing one way or another. GFWL may be the most-hated, most-atrocious DRM out there, but I can’t help but brush all that off. Dark Souls is one of the best games I’ve played […]
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If you kick in $15 or more on the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter crowd-funding drive you’ll get a “Digital Downloable copy of game DRM free for PC or MAC OSX or Linux.” Better yet, “your party will start with a unique and quirky skill.” There’s something about being very fan-oriented in your game development that I […]
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Over at Joystiq, Alexander Sliwinski reports on a surprising statement from CD Projeckt Red CEO Marcin Iwinski on that studio’s decision to abandon digital rights management protections on their future titles: “Every subsequent game we will never use any DRM anymore, it’s just over-complicating things,” Iwinski said. His presentation was hinged on how the Polish publisher sold […]
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