“Your game could get downloaded 1,000,000x on a piracy platform, at $60 a pop, that’s $60M in lost revenue. Pay us $30M and we will prevent this - a bargain.”
Reality, none of those pirates would have paid full price for your game, and it’ll get cracked anyways - you just made it worse for paying customers and deterred anyone who doesn’t want to voluntarily install a rootkit virus on their computer.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That was my reaction too!
I don’t understand the temptation of the studio to pay for Denuvo. Are they worried evil Linux users like me will cheat at some kind of tournament?
And I was probably going to buy this one, but not if it ships with Denuvo.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The idiot MBAs running companies think that piracy is lost sales and they probably get bamboozled buy a Denuvo salesman’s pitch.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
“Your game could get downloaded 1,000,000x on a piracy platform, at $60 a pop, that’s $60M in lost revenue. Pay us $30M and we will prevent this - a bargain.”
Reality, none of those pirates would have paid full price for your game, and it’ll get cracked anyways - you just made it worse for paying customers and deterred anyone who doesn’t want to voluntarily install a rootkit virus on their computer.