How would the majority of pirates being from different countries factor into this? Seems like something that would just cost them a lot more money based purely on principle. Certainly not something I see becoming common practice for that reason. Not for nothing but it kind of reads like the angry dad evoking the "cyber police".

I hope they do, Witcher 1 was a great game that deserved to sell lots of copies, so I hope Witcher 2 sells well for them!
 
Hooray for fantasy themed rpgs!

I expected more from you, CD Projekt :(

I'm surprised they even decided to do such a thing, CD Projekt being a Polish company and all that.

I say good luck to them trying to enforce this across various countries.

I can imagine this being a logistical nightmare, but good luck to them. It beats building intrusive DRM into the game, anyway.

I have no qualms with this decision, while they treat well their costumers, without any crappy DRM, or software to impede on their enjoyment of the product.

" @Binman88:  Suing people for obscenly high amounts of money because they pirated a game hardly seems fair. I don't endorse piracy nor do I practice it, but I hate it when it's pursued this way. "

I wish them luck in trying to carry out this plan. They are going to need it. The people who want to cover their trail can do so quite effectively.

Isn't  CD Projekt a fairly small company? It seems like it would be difficult for them to carry out several lawsuits at a time.

The overall response to this on the internet has been "boohoo how dare they protect their property and assets by going after criminals".
 
Fuck those people. Not CD Projekt. One of few respectable houses left. Pirate this and you're helping ruin PC gaming.

I find this rather hilarious. Their sister company GOG.com are putting this game out DRM free.  
 
All the best to them, and I hope they succeed. I just know they won't either, in terms of stopping people from pirating W2.

Good luck to CD Projeckt, although I doubt they will succeed much.  Going to buy it myself though. Just haven't decided whether to get it on Steam or GOG.

Best of luck to their efforts.

Good! I hope this becomes the norm for all PC games

Charge the pirates a $50 fine payable to CD Projekt.

This just seems like something that only people who don't pirate would even believe. Its kind of an empty gesture, they clearly can't follow through. Maybe a few people in Poland get busted, that's the extent of it.

Well, it's being offered on STeam and Impulse for $45. I think I'll just get it that way. Shouldn't be that bad.

Buy this game!  It's a PC developed RPG -- we don't get nearly enough of these of this caliber now days.  Get it now!

So I assume this means they're releasing another meaty demo?

I misread this and was like "Woah, this game has pirates too?"

" I misread this and was like "Woah, this game has pirates too?" "

Good for them.  Pay for it or don't play it - if you can't afford it then work harder so that you can, or go without, because I'm fed up with paying your share.  Threatening a few thieving scumbags with legal action is far better than ruining the product for those of us who still actually pay for our games.
 
They could quite easily be bluffing (short term, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference whether they make good on their threat or not) but if it makes a few people consider paying for their entertainment instead of just freeloading off the rest of us, then it will have been worth it.

I have no idea how they are ever going to get this to work, but I need to support my homies! 
Go CDProjekt Red!

Go CD Project RED!!!!  Here is hoping this works without pinning just a few with ridiculous fines. 

" I hope they do, Witcher 1 was a great game that deserved to sell lots of copies, so I hope Witcher 2 sells well for them!  Hooray for fantasy themed rpgs! "

"I say good luck to them trying to enforce this across various countries. "

They should just DRM the shit out of the game.
 
"But, but... I'll have to call their company every fifth time I change my hard drive and reinstall the game."
 
Shut the fuck up.  People are starving in the world.  Your impending blog rant on the troubles of DRM are laughable.

good luck to them, though it doesn't really spell a friendly public image

" Good! I hope this becomes the norm for all PC games "

" They should just DRM the shit out of the game.
 
"But, but... I'll have to call their company every fifth time I change my hard drive and reinstall the game."  Shut the fuck up.  People are starving in the world.  Your impending blog rant on the troubles of DRM are laughable. "

Sounds like an empty threat. I can't imagine how you would enforce a thing like that in countless countries.

" They should just DRM the shit out of the game.
 
"But, but... I'll have to call their company every fifth time I change my hard drive and reinstall the game."  Shut the fuck up.  People are starving in the world.  Your impending blog rant on the troubles of DRM are laughable. "

As good as this sounds, they will never catch anything close to say maybe 50% of all the pirates for this game.
 
There are very simple ways to avoid being caught with this kind of thing.

No demo on release, what do developers expect?

Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre...

When will companies learn never to challenge hackers? It only makes them want to do more damage. This will probably make the Witcher 2 one of the most pirated games of 2011.

I hope they find them Pirate style and make them walk some form of long ass plank.

Good on them.

They are already going out on a limb and offering a DRM free version of the game.  If your not going to support them at all, then you deserve to be fined if you pirate the game and get caught.

I support Whatever CD Projekt has to do to try and keep people from Pirating their games as long as it doesn't lock me out after 3 installations(Spore) or destroys my hardware(Starforce).  More power to them.

I wish them good luck in their future bankruptcy.

That seems really dumb to be honest. No one company can hope to effectively combat piracy.

Good luck to CD Projekt, though the chance of them making this work is slim at best. 

Good luck to CD Projekt, though the chance of them making this work is slim at best.