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Dev thoughts on gog.com?
x4000:
--- Quote from: Dizzard on March 27, 2012, 12:53:54 PM ---How can anyone really complain about licence keys? If you actually did buy the game then it's a total non issue.
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The general complaint: what if I lose it? Then I can't play anymore.
My general response: what if you lose the CD itself, if you bought it physically? Then you also can't play it anymore. What if your house burns down or your computer gets stolen? Back up your stuff.
Terraziel:
--- Quote from: keith.lamothe on March 27, 2012, 12:52:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Terraziel on March 27, 2012, 12:45:14 PM ---Whilst obviously not directly comparable situations, but I got The Witcher 2 from GOG and they provided you a cd-key for that.
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I'm guessing they did that so you could register it on steam, rather than asking you to use it to activate a copy you downloaded from GoG?
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To quote directly from the email....
"Using the CD-Key is not required to play, but we recommend you register your copy of The Witcher 2 with it as it grants you access to direct updates, additional language packs, future free DLC and more."
keith.lamothe:
--- Quote from: Terraziel on March 27, 2012, 12:56:30 PM ---"Using the CD-Key is not required to play, but we recommend you register your copy of The Witcher 2 with it as it grants you access to direct updates, additional language packs, future free DLC and more."
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I don't know if that's "No" DRM :) (/being-a-jerk)
Dizzard:
--- Quote from: x4000 on March 27, 2012, 12:55:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dizzard on March 27, 2012, 12:53:54 PM ---How can anyone really complain about licence keys? If you actually did buy the game then it's a total non issue.
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The general complaint: what if I lose it? Then I can't play anymore.
My general response: what if you lose the CD itself, if you bought it physically? Then you also can't play it anymore. What if your house burns down or your computer gets stolen? Back up your stuff.
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I completely agree.
If somebody loses their key of course that does suck but it's silly to go around blaming the game companies. At the end of the day it wasn't the game companies who lost it. They should look closer to home if they are looking to play the blame game.
For me personally I don't really have much of an issue because I normally enter licence keys right after I buy the game. So I don't have much chance to lose them anyway.
Volatar:
--- Quote from: keith.lamothe on March 27, 2012, 12:52:55 PM ---
I think the key distinction in our case is: we don't ask for a license key to protect our rights (it doesn't, at all, these games are extremely easy to pirate), we ask for a license key to add convenience for the user by making it easier for us to provide the updates and the demos.
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Indeed. One of my friends, being a cheap jerk, cracked AI War (this was back in the 1.0 days). However, the rest of our gaming group had bought the game. We kept up to date with the daily (or sometimes more often) patches, and he would have to crack the game each and every time. Cracking a game once is fun for him. Cracking a game four times in one day is not fun. He broke down and bought the game after a couple weeks. :)
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