Comment on Crimson Desert Includes Denuvo DRM, To Nobody’s Delight
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
This is what pushes me to piracy. I had no intention of pirating Crimson Desert, because I think it looks good and I’d support the devs by buying it. But I’m not interested in buying a license to play a handicapped version of the game. I’ll just play something else until they remove Denuvo.
Also, fuck the shills across gaming sites celebrating the addition of Denuvo because “pirates are just mad they can’t get it free on day one”. People who pay get fucked over more than pirates do. We pay more for a worse version of the game than pirates eventually get for free.
Denuvo is a deal breaker.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
So you blame the developer and not the pirates for this?
This is the equivalent of trumpers crying about “illegal” immigrants and not the people that hire them.
Go ahead and boycott the game over this. I’m sure the amount of money they’re making from all the would-be pirates now having to actually pay for a change will more than make up for it.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 5 hours ago
In a world were plenty of games without denuvo are doing just fine? Yeah I blame the publisher/dev.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Go back to the Steam forums where you belong, bootlicker.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Person disagrees with your point:
You: “bOoTliCkEr!”
Yliaster@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Except when people provide you with evidence and reasoning you just go “lmao” and leave it at that too.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 hours ago
Show me the data that proves piracy actually causes a tangible loss for the developer for DRM to actually be needed.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Lmao…. Show you the data that would otherwise be impossible to show you?
There is no tangible way to prove who would or wouldn’t buy a thing if the parameters were different other than polling them.
And how exactly do you think polling dishonest people will turn out?
Nelots@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Why is pirating inherently dishonest in your opinion?
teft@piefed.social 12 hours ago
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-sales-may-actually-help/
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
LMAO….
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The developers have a lot of choices in their approach to piracy and they chose a company that makes performance killing restraints that runs concurrent to the software causing poor performance. The game could be fun and run well but it is saddled by the poor business choices of the developer.
rtxn@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Denuvo adds an obscene amount of checks to the executable, which manifests as an increased CPU load (compare Assassin’s Creed Origins with and without it) and poorer performance. It also restricts the game’s availability to legitimate paying customers if there’s any issue with the “is this a new installation” detector.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
No loss.
Nelots@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
You… either completely missed or completely ignored the point. The point being that, in order to attack the pirates who wouldn’t have bought the game anyway, regular paying users are getting screwed over by a significant performance hit.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
Yes I do because they actively chose to make their game shittier for people who purchase legitimate copies. You think pirates are going to pay for this shit? They were never going to pay to begin with, what makes you think they’re going to pay for it now?
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They’re not. And now they do get to play it for free either.
Win-win.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Way to contradict yourself in literally the next comment. Clearly you are a shill and not a serious person.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Who exactly “wins” anything here?
The dev pay for denuvo licenses an doesn’t gain enough sales to make up for it - lose.
The pirate waits longer to play the game - lose.
The paying customer gets an inferior product - lose.