Yeah pirating a DRM free game. We are lucky to have people like you. I suppose you will purchase it when it reaches what you consider an acceptable price. Like $5 in a Steam sale long after any sales matter.

Still missing the point >.<

Say you remotely disable an installation of Witcher that you have installed on your laptop.

When you come back to your laptop, you need an internet connection to reanable it, which is outside of installation.
Yes.

http://www.newgamenetwork.com/news/2569/witcher-2-to-include-securom-drm/

"CD Projekt has confirmed that The Witcher 2 will in fact use SecuROM for its retail release DRM. The developers noted that the DRM will still allow for unlimited installations on an unlimited number of computers, with ability to play on up to five computers at once"

No it only goes online at installation. You can have it installed on an unlimited number of machines but only 5 can be active. This will only be an issue with automatic updates I would assume.

So here's how I interpret this.

You can install it on 5 computers, to install on a 6th computer you must uninstall it from one of the other five. So an internet connection is probably required for install and uninstall.

This is risky, as if your computer goes titsup 5 times then you've lost your game. Probably a call to tech support would then fix that.

It's not really a new one. The unfortunate reality is that PC games are more complex than ever technologically, they're more expensive than ever, and yet demos are becoming more rare than ever. Combine all of those and you've got serious incentive to make sure something works properly before shelling out money, and fewer legal ways to do so than ever before.

This gets even more important if you're running less-than-optimal hardware, because sometimes a game's minimum requirements are legitimately playable, sometimes they actually overshoot what you need just to be safe, and sometimes they're the minimum to get the game to boot up but no promises beyond that.

And it's not like a game that doesn't work can be returned, either. Thanks to DRM no game stores will take back PC games these days.

I really don't blame people who pirate a game to see if it'll run. After some recent debacles with half-assed console ports and bugged to hell PC exclusives it's hard to blame them for wanting to kick the wheels before buying the car.

huh that is a little tougher, the only thing I can think of then is that it downloads an encrypted license to your computer that the program can check is active or deactivated. And to reenable or deauthorize you need the internet as they are treated as installation processes.

If you can only have 5 installations at one time, that's called an installation limit. Thus, it isn't 'unlimited installations'.
And once again, that means to activate a de-activated one, you'll need an internet connection while you are not installing, which they said would be the only time it was required.

Sorry I don't buy that. Part in parcel of being a PC gamer is knowing about PC hardware. Most people should know that looking at the minimum requirements will produce a a barely running game. It will work but it won't be pretty and you will probably get low frame rates. If you have doubts the game will run you don't buy it until you upgrade your hardware.

I have no sympathy for anyone who complains the game wont run on an Atom with Intel HD graphics when the MINIMUM specs are an 8800 and a dual core.

I agree it is a dubious use of the term. They would probably argue that it is unlimited in that at no point would they say you've installed it too many times regardless of how many times you've uninstalled it (as Games For WIndows Live might).

Beyond the license solution I put in the post above (41), it also may be that the person writing the article worded simply it badly - i.e. that the total installation limit is unlimited by the number of installations at any one time is limited to 5. Again, it could just be poor wording on the part of the news writer.

Wait, will the boxed (disc) version of Witcher 2 have online authentication? Did I miss that bit? If so, I will cancel my collector's edition preorder. Dead serious. I'll buy Mortal Kombat & GOG's version of Witcher 2 and still have money left over. Or just pirate Witcher 2 (Okay, so I prob won't pirate it... but grrr nonetheless). Fuck that bullshit.

Yes I said that ... but they may be treating re-authorization as an installation process ... that is still not requiring an internet connection while playing. Again it could be simply a badly worded article.

All versions of The Witcher come with SecuROM other than the one sold on GOG.
Wonderful! As predicted even when a AAA title is released DRM free people intend to pirate it.

I'll check out the presentation video later but I'm pretty sure it is quoted word-for-word from the slide they used :P