EncryptKeeper
@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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' 2 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' 2 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 2 weeks ago:
No? Not sure how you got that.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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" 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it too.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 3 weeks ago:
I read the reviews too, 95% of which contradict you.
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Then they’re not volunteers. They’re PRN.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
And yet there are still people who those strings completely for free.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
For sure
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 weeks ago:
The United States
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 month ago:
This is a big reason why I’m hyped for Steam machine.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 month ago:
Idk man I’ve been a PC gamer for decades, and in my long career in IT have been a subject matter expert on both Linux and Windows systems and this is just straight up cope.
Drivers and compatibility issues and such are much better now than they were 15 years ago, but at the end of the day you buy a console and you get a guaranteed 8-10 years of running every game with zero problems. Thats something we will never, ever get on PC. It’s just not possible.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 month ago:
It’s more cost efficient, and less of a headache to deal with anomalous problems like bugs and driver issues that can be as specific to your unique combination of PC hardware.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 month ago:
Th prices of every component involved in making a PS5 have exploded.
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 1 month ago:
Steam games are either on sale, or they aren’t.
But on the PlayStation Store, I can see a game is on sale and text my buddy who lives down the street about it, but when he opens the store it’s not on sale for him, only me.