It's Xbone's DRM, not CDPR's. Microsoft decided to put that DRM in their console, and producers (CDPR included) don't have a say in this. What's so hard to understand ?

I took a look at wikipedia's pages for CDP and CDPR to try and sort out CD Project but soon fled in terror. I think GOG originates from a different branch than the one that makes the Witcher games but there have been mergers and renames since then to confuse things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt_RED

"Software Engineer

We are looking for Software Engineers to enhance our extraordinary team. Join us in building the best online services and desktop features for our sister game-development studio CD Projekt RED and other partners. This position will allow you to shape the future of the GOG.com."

http://www.gog.com/work#software_engineer

CD Projekt RED (the developer of The Witcher) and GOG are sister companies. The parent company is CD Projekt (without RED!).

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The retail version of The Witcher 2 had DRM as well. It was forced on CDPR by the publisher (they removed it a few days after release, because of performance problems caused by the DRM). You need a publisher for some things. Even Valve needed EA for retail games. So what should CDPR have done? Make the game GOG-only? That's not the way to make money. That's only a way to piss off your customers without good internet connection and bandwith cap. But it would have been truly anti-DRM not to allow people without good internet to play the game.

Same goes for XBone. It is a customer unfriendly DRM-box, but people will buy it to play games on it. It might be a sign against DRM not to release the game on XBone... But it wouldn't be nice for your customers.

So which XBone game refused to work to make people and media complain about its alleged DRM? Or when people and media complained about Ubisoft's always-online DRM schemes, which caused Ubisoft to change it?

Also to give more recent example, as Valve quietly changed its DRM from "always offline" to "you have to authenticate your Steam games every two weeks", many content people reacted in the Steam forums.

Wrong logic. I have 175 games on Steam, so according to you I don't care about DRM.

"Being annoyed" and "not caring" are not the same thing. That's what the pro-DRM people seem to forget over and over again.

yes, and you alone make a revolution...
Proves my point. There is no revolution, just complains when single cases do not work.

The reality is making a game the scope of The Witcher 3 costs a lot of money. To make sure they can recover the costs and fund development of future games like Cyberpunk 2077, they need to port it to as many viable platforms as possible to increase possible sales. If they decided to not release it here, that would be a far more legit complaint than it appearing on any console.

And they only care when it goes wrong. As I said :)

So not sure what we are arguing about, to be honest.

CD Project/CD Project Red/GOG are the good guys. Some time ago Google was also the good guys. When do the good guys lose their ways? I don't agree with the OP at all and I think he has an extreme and not very pragmatic way of looking at things but when it come to our brave new technology world it can be useful to reflect upon these things.

I like GOG's policy against DRM and I think their firm yet pragmatic approach (including selling their games on XBox and selling games with antiquated DRM technology like M&M 3 and 4) is a good one.

In the future I suspect your relationship with DRM will influence your relationship with The Man as DRM an DLM (Digital Life Management) becomes more entangled.

No they are not, CDPR is the parent company now.

"After the international success of The Witcher, CD Projekt changed its focus to game development. In 2008, CD Projekt group companies became part of a newly created holding company, CDP Investment Sp. z o.o. Soon thereafter, in what is known as reverse takeover, CDP Investment merged with Optimus S.A., a public company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In October 2011, CD Projekt RED Sp. z o.o. merged with CD Projekt RED S.A. and became the dominant part of the group.[1]"

And from GOG's Wiki:

Parent CD Projekt RED S.A.

Good news! CDPR gave Microsoft an ultimatum ("Witcher 3 or DRM, pick one!"), and now Microsoft complied and agreed to strip the DRM away from XBone!

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/xbox_one_removing_drm/page1

;)

As long as they remain committed to providing a drm-free option wherever possible then I don't see the problem. The issue here is that not everyone wants what CDPR wants the way CDPR want it. All they can do is provide people with the choices they want while providing the option they believe to be the optimal.