The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt Red has opened up on its attitudes to DLC and DRM, explaining why it's against both of them.

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“ With DLC, it’s small content. Like one-thousandth of the whole game. Why should you charge for that?

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Speaking to IGN during last week's EGX convention, head of marketing and PR Michal Platkow-Gilewski revealed it ultimately comes down to what they want to encounter in releases from other developers."We don’t want to assault anyone," he said. "Each time we are thinking about a decision, the first rule is we have to treat gamers like we’d like to be treated. We don’t believe in DRM because we hate DRM. It also doesn’t protect, not really. Games are cracked in minutes, hours or days, but they’re always cracked. If you want to pirate you’ll find a way. But if you’re a committed gamer and are buying the game why should we place a barrier on you?Certainly the studio has the track record to back this claim up, with all its current games being free from DRM. While some may be sad to learn The Witcher 3 is unlikely to get DLC, Platkow-Gilewski reassured me that there'll be plenty to do in the upcoming RPG. He reconfirmed we should expect over 100 hours of gameplay , with about 50 of those spent on the main story arc and a further 50 on side quests, in a massive world "35 times bigger than the previous games" that he thinks will take "maybe half an hour" to cross. Finish that before asking for more!As for what's next, he admitted that while he feels bittersweet about finishing work on the series, the team are all excited to get a move on with Cyberpunk 2077, the previously-announced title that promises to be "totally different to The Witcher, but still an RPG".Unlike Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red has not confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One yet. However, late last year CD Projekt Red did admit that chances of the RPG coming to these consoles were high. "It most probably will be," said Rafal Jaki, business development manager at CD Projekt Red. "[But] we can't confirm or deny because it's too early for that."

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