GOG on DRM: ‘Gamers Are Not Criminals’

GOG has committed itself to anti-DRM policies in the past and that won't change with the recent announcement of its Galaxy game client, the company confirmed in a Eurogamer Germany interview. 

Guillaume Rambourg, vice president GOG North America, said "Let's make it easy and rewarding for gamers to buy games. They are not criminals and they do not need DRM."

He said DRM was not "the best way to reward those faithful gamers" who are willing to legitimately buy full price games.  "Our industry should be cherishing and treating all gamers with respect, those people who pay our wages, servers, development projects and what not. Instead, we just make it frustrating for them to buy games. How schizophrenic is that?" Rambourg continued. 

Pointing to the example of The Witcher 2, which GOG sold DRM-free, he said the first version of the game to be uploaded to torrent sites, several days before the official release of the RPG, was the cracked retail version which had DRM features. 

"DRM is not protecting any product," he went on. "It is harming your fans and your brands in the long run. We totally believe that distributing games without DRM is a good thing for our industry."

CD Projekt RED, the developer of The Witcher 2 and part of GOG's parent company CD Projekt, has also come out against DRM on several occasions and the studio has confirmed that despite heavy piracy of The Witcher 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will not feature DRM either.