Xbox One users cannot play Witcher 3....due to Microsoft's DRM.

[KenjiKusanagi]

[QUOTE][B]Owners of the Xbox One digital version of [I]The Witcher 3[/I] have found themselves unable to boot up their game.

[/B]Well, here's a story with a somewhat ironic twist. Despite its [URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/140941-CD-Projekt-RED-Pokes-Fun-at-DRM-in-The-Witcher-3"]mockery of DRM[/URL], and developer CD Projekt Red's firm stance on the matter, owners of the Xbox One digital version of [I]The Witcher 3[/I] are finding themselves unable to play their games... due to a DRM malfunction.
Users are reporting the problem on [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/38exar/witcher_3_wont_load_error_0x87de2726/"]reddit[/URL], and [URL="http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/xbox_one_support/f/4270/t/1982396.aspx"]Microsoft's support form[/URL], all quoting the 0x87de2726 error code - which is apparently a licencing error. It's only effecting the digital version of the game as of now, so if you have a disk-based version you're golden.
Microsoft is aware of the problem, but has no timetable for a fix.
You can see this as either an ironic blow [B]against[/B] CD Projekt Red for so staunchly mocking DRM, or rather a confirmation of its philosophy that DRM only ever punishes playing customers. After all, it was Microsoft, not CDPR that imposed DRM on [I]The Witcher 3[/I], and indeed the PC version of the game purchased from [URL="http://www.gog.com/game/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_preorder"]Good Old Games[/URL] doesn't have any kind of DRM on it whatsoever.
Either way, things don't look good for Microsoft right now, which actually ran into a [URL="http://kotaku.com/some-xbox-one-users-cant-play-far-cry-4-even-though-th-1677621472"]similar problem[/URL] with [I]Far Cry 4 [/I]earlier in the year.[/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/141027-The-Witcher-3-Xbox-One-Version-Locks-Out-Owners[/URL]

[dgg]

Anyone that would see it as a blow against Projekt Red would have to be a tunnel visioned, narrowminded retard to the point where I don't understand why it's even brought up in the article.

"they put it on the platform despite it having drm" would be the only argument, and it's a weak one. User choice.

Also good job on Microsoft still creating bad DRM solutions.

[Xyrec]

Problem has already been solved

[url]https://np.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/38exar/witcher_3_wont_load_error_0x87de2726/crukjzk[/url]

[rilez]

In my entire play through of Witcher 3, from start to end. The only quest that broke for me [sp]was the one that included their DRM joke[/sp]

Thought it was pretty funny

[catbarf]

[QUOTE=dgg;47876344]Anyone that would see it as a blow against Projekt Red would have to be a tunnel visioned, narrowminded retard to the point where I don't understand why it's even brought up in the article.[/QUOTE]

If CDPR implemented the DRM and it broke, then it means they screwed up their coding somewhere.

Plenty of other companies implement DRM at Microsoft's requirement and don't wind up with their game locking legitimate users out.

Edit: If this is purely publisher-side implementation during CD printing then never mind, but the article seems to imply that the root cause is on CDPR's end.

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;47876371]I don't think Projekt Red pushed a big evil red button saying add DRM, pretty sure it's a forced thing for the platform.[/QUOTE]

Welcome to an EA title launch party. In the centre of the room is a giant weight-sensitive dumpster and when enough top-shelf empty champagne bottles have been added to the pile, it launches thousands of fireworks and lights up a giant neon sign that says "fuck customers"

[Shiftyze]

For decades we have seen forms of prohibition not work yet people somehow think it will work one day.