• Gabadabs@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t say that it’s evil, but rather it doesn’t exist for the benefit of players, it exists for the benefit of corporations. They know that it hurts performance in games and prevents a lot of people from playing games that they’ve legitimately purchased, but so long as it’s preventing some piracy they do not care.

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      1 year ago

      Except it doesn’t prevent any piracy. Pirates strip the DRM away within hours or days, and then the game runs better for the pirates than the paying customers.

      So, you have a small window of the game being “protected” but that’s the same window that people on the fence ab out the game wouldn’t have bought it anyway.

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    1 year ago

    It’s not always about the performance impact…DRM has been known to restrict and prevent legitimate gamers from playing the games meanwhile those that sail the high seas ignore the useless DRM and continue to play.

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    1 year ago

    In our chat, Huin implied that this kind of public analysis was not very useful because “gamers [almost] never get access to the same version of [a game] protected and unprotected. There might be over the lifetime of the game a protected and unprotected version, but these are not comparable because these are different builds over six months, many bug fixes, etc., which could make it better or worse.”

    So they are literally trying to say that Denuvo isn’t the cause of performance slowdowns, because patches to the game since the version that got cracked made the game that much slower?

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    1 year ago

    Aside from failing to convince me, they have deepened my own conviction that sound cards are essential to maintaining decent framerates.

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    1 year ago

    There’s so many games I haven’t bought simply because they used/ implemented Denuvo. I see Denuvo and it’s an instant lost sale/nonbuy.

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      1 year ago

      Yup, I was going to grab Like a Dragon last week but saw Denuvo on the sidebar & quickly changed my mind.

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    1 year ago

    Empress will read this and it will grind her gears. I am looking forward for her new NFO.