EncryptKeeper
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- Comment on something to be reinvented 7 hours ago:
They don’t expire. Thats why they’re called forever stamps
- Comment on Splinter Cell designer says “one of the difficulties with modern stealth games” is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much “harder to read” 1 week ago:
Yeah a big trend right now is indie games made with what is basically PS1 graphics. Having more tools for better graphics and lighting does not at all mean you have to make your game look a certain way.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
This game is evidently not worth even pirating
Is that so? I’ve primarily seen glowing reviews about how good it is already and even well optimized even given its EA status.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 3 weeks ago:
I mean for better for worse (It’s better) it appears Civ switching will no longer be part of the franchise. It can remain part of the Humankind franchise where it belongs.
Old World is a rad game, but it’s not about leading A Civilization through time. It’s a different kind of game.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 3 weeks ago:
You don’t like the game? Don’t play it, go on and enjoy the hundreds of thousands of other games out there rather than linger and whine until the devs cater to your whims.
Counterpoint: Humankind already exists. It exists as a similar but alternative game series to Civilization, which is a good thing. That means people who like Civilization games get something, and the folks who like what humankind did get something. Turning Civilization into a completely different game in the one way most at odds with its identity. You already have Humankind, the devs of Civilization don’t have to cater to your whims by just cloning Humankind.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 3 weeks ago:
I will always appreciate game designers attempting to try to do something fresh over playing it safe.
They did not attempt anything fresh. They just copied the mechanic of one of its competitors.
It’s not as fleshed out as the previous entry until all the expansions land.
That’s not the issue with the game, at all.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
There were several Denuvo cracks in that period actually, just not as many.
Other games get cracked day 0 even though it’s equally thankless. That obviously isn’t the distinguishing factor.
Denuvo games also get cracked day 0. Not sure what your point is, or at this point if you even have one.
At the end of the day, what I said was correct. There was a period of time where we had less cracks, and now it’s ramping back up again. There doesn’t seem to be anything about Denuvo that stops its games from being cracked fairly quickly other than a lack of people to do the cracking.
These are all verifiably correct and factual statements. Whatever it is you’re whinging and whining about… I don’t know what to tell you.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
2 year*.
Everyone lost “interest” simultaneously for multiple years? They got bored or something?
Who is this “everyone” you speak of? You realize pirate scene groups are very niche groups of people right?
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
What on earth are you talking about? You’re all tied up in knots. I’m not talking about any non-Denuvo games.
every single denuvo game with millions in sales gets left alone for years
I mean I mean if you ignore the ones that don’t, then sure.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
And those exact same people suddenly gain an interest as soon as denuvo is removed?
No the lack of interest is probably there in both cases.
“well I wasn’t even trying anyways!” excuse lol
Generational levels of cope. “My lock is so effectively NOBODY*
has tried tocan break it! - Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
It’s like I said, the biggest opposition to game pirating isn’t the protection Denuvo actually provides but just the lack of interest in people doing the cracking.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 5 weeks ago:
I’m not the guy you’re replying to but I really hate BOTW so I’d probably agree with his take on TOTK
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 5 weeks ago:
I think I agree with your sentiment but why did you make a list of unrelated games of various levels of quality from god tier to dogshit abandonware?
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
No? Not sure how you got that.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
Very recently - maybe.
No for several years now. There was a stint of a year or two where cracks took a little longer, but truth be told that was around when COVID happened and there were just fewer big ticket games for people to put effort into it. These days the only o thing protecting games from piracy isn’t Denuvo, it’s the lack of interest of scene groups in doing the cracking.
And what was first?
For an increasing number of people, Denuvo. With the hardware crisis and all, people aren’t upgrading hardware as much as they used to. People have to do more with less. Games with Denuvo removed run better on the same hardware, so people who have had no financial interest in pirating have turned to it as a means of making their games run better.
We’ve seen this all before with streaming. When Netflix got big, tv/movie piracy nearly died out because it was so convenient to pay for streaming.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
It does not. Denuvo is often cracked within hours.
And, I repeat, piracy is the cause of Denuvo.
It’s also often the cause of piracy. If your two options are 1. Spend a bunch of money for a worse experience or 2. Spend 0 money for a better experience, there’s no practical reason to choose option 1.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
Afaik Denuvo doesn’t stop pirates. It only negatively affects the game for people who paid good money for it.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 5 weeks ago:
Clarification for those of you who are also using an adblocker and get denied access to the site, this seems to be in the UK only and is yet another result of their age verification tear they’ve been on.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 1 month ago:
Sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it too.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 1 month ago:
I read the reviews too, 95% of which contradict you.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 1 month ago:
You’d be surprised at how many games run on Mac natively. RE2 Remake on a MacBook Air is surprisingly good.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 1 month ago:
it’s a shallow game covered in style.
That’s not a preference, and there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that it’s even true. If the game was shallow the reviews would not be overwhelmingly positive.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 1 month ago:
The reviews are overwhelmingly positive. Out of nearly 2,000 reviews less than 100 are negative at all.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
Then they’re not volunteers. They’re PRN.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
Most firefighters in the U.S. are volunteer, and make no money at all. Being paid per call is not the norm.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
Volunteer firefighters are unpaid. That is what volunteer means in this context. They make $0.
There are some places where they get tossed a few bucks per call, but most of them don’t make a cent.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
The president largely doesn’t have too much power. Problem is the other two branches of government conceding theirs.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
You think the guys who don’t get paid at all are paid pretty damn well? I don’t follow.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
And yet there are still people who those strings completely for free.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
For sure