Pirater gillar The Witcher 2. 4.5 miljoner gånger.

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Pirater gillar The Witcher 2

4.5 miljoner gånger

Ett av årets bästa rollspel The Witcher 2 har numera sålt mer än en miljon exemplar. Dock estimerar utvecklaren CD Projekt RED att det finns runt 4.5 miljon piratkopior av spelet.

I en intervju med PC Gamer nämnde en av studions grundare, Marcin Iwinski, att siffran är ett optimistiskt estimat men även att de inte kommer ändra utvecklarens DRM-policy.

"The result is roughly 4.5 million illegal downloads. This is only an estimation, and I would say that's rather on the optimistic side of things; as of today we have sold over 1 million legal copies, so having only 4.5-5 illegal copies for each legal one would be not a bad ratio. The reality is probably way worse."

"From the very beginning our main competitors on the market were pirates. The question was really not if company x or y had better marketing or better releases, but more like 'How can we convince gamers to go and buy the legit version and not to go to a local street vendor and buy a pirated one?' We of course experimented with all available DRM/copy protection, but frankly nothing worked. Whatever we used was cracked within a day or two, massively copied and immediately available on the streets for a fraction of our price".

gamesindustry.biz

Spel, PC,

The Witcher 2, CD Projekt RED, CD Projekt,

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