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Yea but not as many games are coming with Denuvo. Eventually the games just remove Denuvo themselves. If the games can't be cracked then it's gotten to the point where console piracy is easier. Switch and PS5 have been hacked to bits now.
I paid $40 for Elden Ring, but I pirated it first and waited until there was a sale.
This is the way.I paid $40 for Elden Ring, but I pirated it first and waited until there was a sale.
Not really. Maybe it is because I have already got a backlog that will last me longer than a lifetime, but I don't see the point of even pirating a game that already gave a sniff of dog's droppings when I entered the shop to purchase.
Elden Ring never used Denuvo.
Sorry. I guess that I had it confused with easy anti-cheat. Could have sworn drm was the reason it stank.
It uses Steam DRM.
Don't know which DRM caused the problem, so I'm just gonna assume it was the combination of both. Took hackers to remove Denuvo to show how much of a performance increase could be achieved. Think of it like this, how much more computer would I have to spend to get the same frame rate without Denuvo?
Shouldn't be an activation limit. I own the game and therefore can install it on as many systems as I want. If developers had to increase it to 10 then this activation limit has already caused problems.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Then don't cry about DRM.
Well at least it has that going for it. Wonder if it made much of a performance difference? Wonder if I'll care? Lol.I'm still sad about that. And annoyed I spent so much on it. Multiplayer is dead so it was a waste for a campaign that was kind of lame, and the skirmish mode sucks.
To keep on topic, Denuvo was removed from it today.
Totally. When I was younger, I just didn't have the expendable cash to blow on boxed games. These days, the expendable cash isn't exactly flowing with cost of living being what it is, but if I really want a game I'm more than happy to pay for it. Likewise, I've obtained a number of titles for free via the various online launchers/stores.
What DRM? That's a problem for people who actually bought the game. The funny thing is after I bought the game I couldn't login because there was a missing DLC file. I didn't buy the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC yet, but you can't login unless the file is there. So I had to make an empty file just to login, which is the whole reason I bought the game. Then I found out if I mod the game with FSR3 then I could get banned.
Don't worry, you don't OWN the games now, you just have permission to use them
Never have. It's always been a license, even back in the disc daysDon't worry, you don't OWN the games now, you just have permission to use them
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Then piracy is not theft?Never have. It's always been a license, even back in the disc days
undocumented borrowing
give me a break. tell that to Larian that released Baldurs Gate 3 on GOG which has absolutely NO DRM. same with Cyberpunk 2077. maybe start making games worth purchasing. maybe worth the $70-$100 investment without trying to nickle and dime us for sh*t like horse armor!?
Never has been. It's copyright infringement. Realistically, it's as bad as theft and has the same effects
.We (we as in devs like myself) have never been in a such an amazing time as we are today thanks to OSS. I think the more open source there is the better and the less intellectual property there will be (because it will be stealing, aka copyright infringement, for companies to try to make private IP when using OSS licenses). Developers and game makers will earn more, products will be better and we will have more products. Better games for cheaper with Devs making more cash. Only downside is big studios go bye bye....capitalism ftw.Never has been. It's copyright infringement. Realistically, it's as bad as theft
Reminded me to check humble bundle
Humble went downhill ever since the ign takeover. They haven't had an old fashioned core bundle since bundle 19 back in 2018.
fair
If we learned from Tango Gameworks and their game Hi-Fi Rush, is that you can make a well received game and still get shut down. The games not even cracked, but because it was on Game Pass it got no sales. If anything will save the gaming industry, it will be the indie game developers. The biggest games for the past 2 years have been from Indie studios like Baldur's Gate 3, HellDivers 2, and Palworld. Tango Gameworks was even bought by an Indie studio Krafton who made PUGB. What really needs to be done is for games to have their game engine code open source, like what John Carmack did with Doom/Doom2/Quake/Quake2 and etc. Because of this, those games live on and don't break any copyright and don't promote piracy. I like knowing that someone has made a port of the game engine on Linux without me needing to buy the game I already own a second time.
Except there was a gaming industry before denovo, so try again troll. All those "thieves" cancelling their pre-orders because of denuvo, they just wanted to get the game for free.
And if it was posted in the subforum it would get maybe 2 lazy comments and no discussion.
That's where the whole gaming industry went wrong. Gamers stopped being the customers, they became the product. So stores like EGS don't care about gamer needs and wants, just like DRM companies don't care.
Trying to prove DRM has no performance impact is like trying to prove free energy exists. It will always have an impact, it is impossible to add invasive DRM without it somehow impacting the performance.
OK, it might be successful at preventing freeloaders from playing the game early. But where you and the DRM peddlers go wrong is that you assume this turns freeloaders into day 1 customers. It doesn't. Very few habitual or economic pirates are turned into customers by DRM, they'll just move on to something else.
Only customers cry about DRM, pirates laugh at customers.
Time and time again it was shown that if a game is good and in demand it has no trouble selling millions of copies in a few days without DRM. The only potential problem is the game being received poorly and no DRM can save you from that.
Nice revisionism, all the time DRM advocates were insisting that it was theft. No, it doesn't have the same effect, that's the point. A theft creates a material loss, piracy does not, it is at most a loss of potential revenue. But even that has arguments against it. A foiled attempt at piracy is still a net negative if it does not turn into a purchase. And there is no basis for assuming that it would. Sometimes it can't, most of the time it won't.Never has been. It's copyright infringement. Realistically, it's as bad as theft and has the same effects
This is the argument that the industry used to win against customers who were fighting for game preservation, and it's the same one that Nintendo recently put in the "guide" about why they are fighting so vigorously against emulation. For the former, the industry argued that researchers who access a free online database of old games would be able to play them, and that playing them is infringing on their intellectual property rights. For the latter. Nintendo is arguing that a lot of the IP being emulated is still having products created and sold based on that IP, and that if you want to play games using that IP then you should buy and play their new games instead of worrying about the past.Never has been. It's copyright infringement. Realistically, it's as bad as theft and has the same effects