Step 1. Remove DRM.
Step 2. Endure publisher and shareholder ****storm for removing DRM.
Step 3. Pursue Pirates to calm publishers and shareholders, risk everything in court and take a few sacrifice lambs in to account.
Step 4. Give up on piracy persecution for a minority, when pretty much everyone that purchased the game has at least 2 or more ways to prove they bought the game, and show that word of mouth can bury a independent developer faster than everything else.
Step 5. Everyone now closely monitoring them, having an eye on their work and demanding more control.
Step 6.Discover that once upon a time there where hundreds developers like them, that overnight became just another IP.
I bet that a DRM free Witcher3 will not be as easy like it was for Witcher 2 with the fast removal.
Larian recently removed DRM from Ego Draconis and DKS.
Annoying thing that mostly the "privacy concerned," are most of the time the most incompetent about the ways of protecting it,and complaining about it by giving incredibly "competent sources" like http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/ the needed attention and hits when this can be discredited within minutes, but the Piracy supporters are a very vocal group everywhere.
I bet something like EA Origin is a better solution for them because it :
"works like steam"
"can be sandboxed"-not really.
"it's a service for friends ans stuff"-Yea , not really it's a platform in the making.
"As long as it's not like Ubisoft"-not gonna comment.
I hope they get away better than most others did, there is lots left to desired coming form the publisher marketing side, and 1 mil copies is a base to even think about presenting them their next project.
They should stop listening to fans, on everything business related and do their own thing.
Step 2. Endure publisher and shareholder ****storm for removing DRM.
Step 3. Pursue Pirates to calm publishers and shareholders, risk everything in court and take a few sacrifice lambs in to account.
Step 4. Give up on piracy persecution for a minority, when pretty much everyone that purchased the game has at least 2 or more ways to prove they bought the game, and show that word of mouth can bury a independent developer faster than everything else.
Step 5. Everyone now closely monitoring them, having an eye on their work and demanding more control.
Step 6.Discover that once upon a time there where hundreds developers like them, that overnight became just another IP.
I bet that a DRM free Witcher3 will not be as easy like it was for Witcher 2 with the fast removal.
Larian recently removed DRM from Ego Draconis and DKS.
Annoying thing that mostly the "privacy concerned," are most of the time the most incompetent about the ways of protecting it,and complaining about it by giving incredibly "competent sources" like http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/ the needed attention and hits when this can be discredited within minutes, but the Piracy supporters are a very vocal group everywhere.
I bet something like EA Origin is a better solution for them because it :
"works like steam"
"can be sandboxed"-not really.
"it's a service for friends ans stuff"-Yea , not really it's a platform in the making.
"As long as it's not like Ubisoft"-not gonna comment.
I hope they get away better than most others did, there is lots left to desired coming form the publisher marketing side, and 1 mil copies is a base to even think about presenting them their next project.
They should stop listening to fans, on everything business related and do their own thing.
