http://www.gamefront.com/cd-projekt-red-its-not-about-protection-its-about-delivering-value/

“Whatever you do, when you release a game, it’s cracked,” Iwinski said. “And back in the day we were thinking, ‘What do we do to stop it?’ and of course, we tried all the copy protections and they just didn’t work. We have very skilled programmers and hackers in Eastern Europe, Poland and Russia, so whatever the protection was, it was taking about a week to crack it. So pretty fast we realized, it’s not about protecting it, because that just doesn’t work — it’s about delivering value to the end consumer.”

What other company would have the marbles to say that?

In my experience, people will always pirate games, some do it because they can't afford to buy new games, some because they don't believe the games are value for money and some because they have problems with whatever developer.

Ubisoft and EA for the most part are guilty of alienating the fan-base of their games, releasing paid DLC on the same day the game is released or the initial release being a buggy piece of junk that should still be in Alpha never mind being sold.

For the most part, personally, I stick to companies I can trust and indie devs, sure I have a few EA games, a few Ubisoft games and the like, but for the most part I don't give them my hard earned money and when I do buy from companies like that, I always wait until sales, I'd never pay full price for their titles, even if it's a game I've been looking forward to.

When it comes to CD Projekt, although they only produce a few games, they are turning into my favourite developer, reminding me a little of Origin (The software company, not the EA program) in the 90's and I'd be happy to try and will most likely buy any game they develop.

Over the years I've bought around 5 copies of The Witcher for either myself or friends and two copies of The Witcher 2 and I always go to gog.com first if I'm looking for a game, my second stop is usually Steam because, although Valve has it's issues, I have massive respect for them too.

Anyways, I'm tired, I should type less.

Cheers.

I'm very much in love. :D

Well copy protection, like locking your home, is not perfect. All it does is creates a barrier, making it harder for any idiot to break in.

Some copy protection is better than others. Unfortunately most of the non-intrusive copy protection can be solved by any idiot who has google. Thus it becomes a pointless exercise.

Incorrect comparison. DRM is like blocking doors to your home with iron bar, furniture and sandbags while all windows can't be closed - inhabitants have problems to use their house freely but thieves/robbers can access it all the time how they want.

It's more like a window.

Once it's broken, it's broken, takes one person to break it then everyone can get through.

Depends on the DRM, but yes lol.

Steam is like a door. I have 2 locks on my door, it takes me a few seconds to get in. Same with Steam. If I don't have my keys, I cannot get in.

If someone wants to break in, its quite hard given how little inconvenience I face daily.

Blizzard seem to have taken the sandbags, retinal ID scanner, iron bars, laser maze, etc style on Diablo 3.