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Dev thoughts on gog.com?
Dizzard:
That's a shame.
Gog seem pretty strict on the DRM policy....although personally I don't see how licence keys would hurt anyone. :-\
Terraziel:
Whilst obviously not directly comparable situations, but I got The Witcher 2 from GOG and they provided you a cd-key for that.
x4000:
--- 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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If that's the case, then we might be able to do the same sort of thing here. We're anti-DRM also here at Arcen, but there's some debate amongst the anti-DRM crowd about whether or not CD keys constitute DRM. My stance is that they do not if they aren't checking in with central servers, having install limits, etc. Although I believe that a CD key just for the sake of a CD key is also kind of pointless: we do it so that we can put the full game files out on the internet all over the place, and then all you need is the short little key to make that go from demo to fullversion (plus all those other benefits of being able to demo the latest beta if you want, etc, etc, etc).
DRMCops really liked our no-DRM stance and thought that the license key that we had did not constitute DRM. But I don't know how GOG would feel.
keith.lamothe:
Yea, the whole "is it DRM?" question, about basically any approach, tends to get pretty idealogical and proof-by-assertion usually wins the day ;)
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.
--- 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?
Dizzard:
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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