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http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/617335934149496447/

Kudos CDPR for making the game DRM-Free on Steam as well. Looks like this re-confirms that adding CEG and Client restriction is optional for the developers.
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Pheace: http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/36jejj/the_witcher_3_can_be_run_from_its_exe_without/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/617335934149496447/

Kudos CDPR for making the game DRM-Free on Steam as well. Looks like this re-confirms that adding CEG and Client restriction is optional for the developers.
But you still need to download it via the client yes? Here you can download without client, or downloader. So in essence there is still an additional overhead.
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Pheace: http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/36jejj/the_witcher_3_can_be_run_from_its_exe_without/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/617335934149496447/

Kudos CDPR for making the game DRM-Free on Steam as well. Looks like this re-confirms that adding CEG and Client restriction is optional for the developers.
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nightcraw1er.488: But you still need to download it via the client yes? Here you can download without client, or downloader. So in essence there is still an additional overhead.
Now THIS is nit picking. My install automatically downloaded galaxy, that is just as bad I'd say. At some point you people will have to accept the fact that Steam has DRM games and that making up excuses doesn't mean that it is not true.
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nightcraw1er.488: But you still need to download it via the client yes? Here you can download without client, or downloader. So in essence there is still an additional overhead.
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darthspudius: Now THIS is nit picking. My install automatically downloaded galaxy, that is just as bad I'd say. At some point you people will have to accept the fact that Steam has DRM games and that making up excuses doesn't mean that it is not true.
Oh, not W3 as well. So its spreading already. I had hoped that they would be good tho their word and remove the Galaxy rubbish from WitcherAG, DDragon, AvP, but it seems they will just go ahead and have galaxy on everything - completely optional of course if you can pop to the moon and download.
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darthspudius: Now THIS is nit picking. My install automatically downloaded galaxy, that is just as bad I'd say. At some point you people will have to accept the fact that Steam has DRM games and that making up excuses doesn't mean that it is not true.
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nightcraw1er.488: Oh, not W3 as well. So its spreading already. I had hoped that they would be good tho their word and remove the Galaxy rubbish from WitcherAG, DDragon, AvP, but it seems they will just go ahead and have galaxy on everything - completely optional of course if you can pop to the moon and download.
It's not rubbish. It's been quite decent to me so far. I'm not going to jump onto the "clients are bad" band wagon without atleast trying them.
That's fantastic and I hope people will appreciate this.

Oh, wait..
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nightcraw1er.488: But you still need to download it via the client yes? Here you can download without client, or downloader. So in essence there is still an additional overhead.
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darthspudius: Now THIS is nit picking. My install automatically downloaded galaxy, that is just as bad I'd say. At some point you people will have to accept the fact that Steam has DRM games and that making up excuses doesn't mean that it is not true.
Well, Steams way is a little bit intransparent, I don't see a simple and obvious way to check if games there are using DRM or not. Recently this problem was partially solved (this banner at the right sight of the store page), but as far as I remember not every game is "perfectly" declared.

And before anyone bashes me: My Steam account currently lists around 400 games, so no, I don't hate Steam, but I stopped buying games there.

Edit: Oh the Orthography.
Post edited May 20, 2015 by Hecke
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nightcraw1er.488: Oh, not W3 as well. So its spreading already. I had hoped that they would be good tho their word and remove the Galaxy rubbish from WitcherAG, DDragon, AvP, but it seems they will just go ahead and have galaxy on everything - completely optional of course if you can pop to the moon and download.
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darthspudius: It's not rubbish. It's been quite decent to me so far. I'm not going to jump onto the "clients are bad" band wagon without atleast trying them.
Personally, I look at it the other way. I'm not going to jump onto the "lets instal any bit of software available" bandwagon before its been proven to be a) secure, b) reliable, and c) of any actual benefit. How often on the news do we hear the headline "wow there's this new cool app where you can upload naked pictures of oneself...". The internet is bad, very bad, and should be treated like dirty pants found on the driveway on a Sunday morning. And I also really don't like all the social rubbish which goes along with such things (even though I am aware you can turn these off).
Oh, and I am sure it will become more "optional" as time goes on anyways.
Post edited May 20, 2015 by nightcraw1er.488
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darthspudius: It's not rubbish. It's been quite decent to me so far. I'm not going to jump onto the "clients are bad" band wagon without atleast trying them.
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nightcraw1er.488: Personally, I look at it the other way. I'm not going to jump onto the "lets instal any bit of software available" bandwagon before its been proven to be a) secure, b) reliable, and c) of any actual benefit. How often on the news do we hear the headline "wow there's this new cool app where you can upload naked pictures of oneself...". The internet is bad, very bad, and should be treated like dirty pants found on the driveway on a Sunday morning. And I also really don't like all the social rubbish which goes along with such things (even though I am aware you can turn these off).
Oh, and I am sure it will become more "optional" as time goes on anyways.
That is a problem that has been around since the internet was born. Sounds like you're simply paranoid.
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darthspudius: Now THIS is nit picking. My install automatically downloaded galaxy, that is just as bad I'd say. At some point you people will have to accept the fact that Steam has DRM games and that making up excuses doesn't mean that it is not true.
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Hecke: Well, Steams way is a little bit intransparent, I don't see a simple and obvious way to check if games there are using DRM or not. Recently this problem was partially solved (this banner at the right sight of the store page), but as far as I remember not every game is "perfectly" declared.

And before anyone bashes me: My Steam account currently lists around 400 games, so no, I don't hate Steam, but I stopped buying games there.

Edit: Oh the Orthography.
and using Galaxy is any different?!
Post edited May 20, 2015 by darthspudius
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Hecke: Well, Steams way is a little bit intransparent, I don't see a simple and obvious way to check if games there are using DRM or not. Recently this problem was partially solved (this banner at the right sight of the store page), but as far as I remember not every game is "perfectly" declared.

And before anyone bashes me: My Steam account currently lists around 400 games, so no, I don't hate Steam, but I stopped buying games there.

Edit: Oh the Orthography.
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darthspudius: and using Galaxy is any different?!
Erm, regarding DRM? Is that really a question?
I thought we already knew this, but it's good to see CDP carrying the DRM-free thing to every PC version of TW3. Unless the Origin version has DRM?
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darthspudius: and using Galaxy is any different?!
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Hecke: Erm, regarding DRM? Is that really a question?
You can question a lot of things...
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darthspudius: Now THIS is nit picking. My install automatically downloaded galaxy, that is just as bad I'd say. At some point you people will have to accept the fact that Steam has DRM games and that making up excuses doesn't mean that it is not true.
This may be nitpicking, but there are situations where a small oversight causes one to say the exact opposite of what one intended, and I suspect that this is such a situation in your case ;-)
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SirPrimalform: I thought we already knew this, but it's good to see CDP carrying the DRM-free thing to every PC version of TW3. Unless the Origin version has DRM?
Witcher 3 Origin.

"Game uses DRM-free technology." (check the system requirements tab)