The Witcher 3 CEO Marcin Iwinski: Mod Tool Kit; Perfection; DRM Dont Work
At the demo event, Marcin Iwinski the CEO of CD Projekt RED CEO confirmed mod support, including a toolset like REDkit, will be coming to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
“Yes, yes, yes we will. There will be an editor,” Iwinski said. “For Witcher 2 we released it quite late. For Witcher 3 it will be faster.”
With the Witcher two it took two years after the release to receive official the toolkit for modding. When they say faster do they mean a year? We have to wait and see.
“Look at Skyrim, the last patch was like two years after the release,” Iwinski said. “We want to make sure people have a great experience out of the box and I’m sure we’re going to deliver that. People are working around the clock to make sure everything works great.”
With CDPR are obsessed with perfection; Therefor, Iwinski laughed as he explained that even the employee cafeteria reviews meals with a five-star rating system.
“Their goal is to get a five-star every day and when they don’t they will have a serious conversation with us,” he said.
Iwinski Also spoke about DRM and how there is much point of it.
“The DRMs don’t work because they don’t protect anything. In such cases pirates usually have a better experience, and we don’t want to treat our audience that way,” Iwinski said. “If they like us and they like what we’re doing then hopefully they support us. Some companies try the stick but we prefer the carrot approach.”
“This company is run by gamers. These discussions are easy,” said Iwinski. “The reason we are giving away 16 pieces of DLC for free is because we think it’s fair. We want to say thank you to the people who just shelled out $60 for the game. We want them to keep playing, to keep having fun.”
