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To add to this, the original Witcher is the game that made me decide I was never again going to install a game directly. It was going to be steam or gog, and I
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
To add to this, the original Witcher is the game that made me decide I was never again going to install a game directly. It was going to be steam or gog, and I've kept to that over the years with few exceptions (rpg maker games, etc).
As a freelance developer I would run vmware with a dedicated partition for the VM. The VM was linux and the partition itself was either ext3 or reiserFS (can't remember).
Since Windows didn't recognize the partition, the DRM for witcher repartitioned that drive so it would have a "secret" partition to track who knows what.
That affected my ability to earn money and was doing things to my PC I would never have accepted if asked.
compared to that, steam is a godsend. I understand people complaining about steam, but to this day I'm still a huge fan of steam for what it forced the gaming industry to accept.
I still prefer GoG due to its policies, but steam is fantastic.
- plonk 4y agoYou can download all 3 Witcher games without DRM after buying them on GoG. Did you have the standalone version? I don't understand why they put a DRM in it.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoThis was back when Witcher first released, they removed the DRM at some point. Here are a few links referencing it. https://steamcommunity.com/app/33250/discussions/0/558752451599351728/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/33250/discussions/0/558752451... https://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher/tags_drm_in_the_witcher https://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher/tags_drm_in_the_witche...