My god...that old argument again...
I'm not a console fanboy. I'm a PC gamer through and through and I'm familiar enough with piracy to tell you there's a very good reason scene groups ask for people to provide them with games before the release date and why developers try to avoid giving them the possibility to crack stuff before release by obfuscating certain data or not even providing it until after the release date. It's the same reason important game files are encrypted on your hard drive by steam (or even missing) right up to the unlock moment. It's why some people illegally download pre-load steam versions before release and wait for the crack and decryption key so they can play it illegally ASAP. It may be an uncomfortable truth but it's the truth. You can't stop piracy, DRM is a stupid thing and I commend CDPR for not encouraging it for the most part but I don't fault them for avoiding pre-release piracy.
It's facts and logic:
-I'm not saying there's no piracy on console, that's a bogus argument proven wrong time and time again, but the newest console generation (the only consoles the game releases on) doesn't have a piracy problem yet (like I said PS4 protection has been recently bypassed by people in Brazil) therefor there's 0 reason for devs to limit these versions as of now, that might change.
-PCs don't have this "limitation", therefor it's logical to try to avoid this issue because a leak on PC means piracy.pre-release and that's always bad news.
If it was to deal with piracy, the game wouldn't be DRM free to begin with. It's just an anti-leak measure, has nothing at all to do with piracy.
Remember that security drm on the pc retail version only applies to pre-release copies. every copy made after the release date wont have that measure and will work from the discs right from the start without ever needing to go online.
The amount of leaks on latest gen consoles is limited by the amount of leaked copies. Leaks on PC isn't. It's limited by how many people download the game, doesn't matter from where or how, legal or illegal.
Look at it this way, you wouldn't have said anything if consoles had the same pre-release limitation, you wouldn't have complained about pre-release DRM at all. The thing that annoys you isn't the DRM, it's the fact that you don't get to play it early.
