Comment on PAYDAY 3 will use Denuvo anti-piracy technology in its PC version

ilickfrogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s the thing, the game is already online only, why do they need anti piracy DRM on top of it?

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  • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it may be more anti-cheat than anti-piracy, but Denuvo in particular can fuck itself

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    • Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It`s a co-op game, who cares about cheaters?

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      • vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        IIRC payday 2 had glacially slow progression at launch. Now what if you could simply pay some (more) money to skip those boring early levels this time around?

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      • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh believe me, people got hyphy in PD2 about mods and stuff, even HUDs and QOL mods got peoples’ hackles up.

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      • jwagner7813@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The people that make money off of it’s monetization. I’ll have to assume they’ll have some sort of season pass.

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  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    DRM is part of an anti-cheat solution. Just like not being F2P is

    If authentication is not properly checked, spinning up new accounts to evade bans becomes trivial. This is why so many live games will be “buy to own” or have different tiers in matchmaking that boil down to “spend five bucks on anything to play the real game”. And same with DRM checking for pirated copies.

    The other aspect is regional restriction. Not sure if denuvo specifically does this, but you can pretty easily check what region a game was purchased for and what region it is playing in. If all those dirt cheap Brazilian copies are being played in Kansas? Report an error. It prevents people from exploiting regional pricing while still allowing those who have ridiculously low purchasing power to buy anything… and it mostly just screws over people who travel.

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    • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t see any reason for denuvo to impose region restrictions and I hope that isn’t the case considering online stores already do this!

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• Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Overkill blew all their money with that WW2 spin off. And it crashed so hard there was a John Cleese shaped crater where it hit rock bottom.

  They were only able to make Payday 3 with significant external investment. So basically, PD3 is going to be a gutted and whored game since those investors will get significant say what goes into the game. Denuovo just being the most obvious right now.

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