Which means it's more useful when you're planning to update the game for many years.
So, from what I've seen: Denuvo has the "bonus" of having to be cracked again everytime the game gets an update (if you want to pirate the newest version). They are producing unlicensed copies, not stealing.
It's still a crime, and i'm not condoning it, but saying it's stealing is like saying that Grannies that take cuttings from overgrowing plants in peoples front gardens are stealing from the local nursery. They are producing unlicensed copies, not stealing.Īlso, Piracy isn't theft, it's counterfeiting. What does it possibly provide once a cracked version exists?Īlso, Piracy isn't theft, it's counterfeiting. This is what project CD Red did for The Witcher 2, i believe. I don't mind companies using DRM for their first couple of months, but they really should patch it out soon after. The point is more that Denuvo isn't particularly good at preventing piracy, and once it's cracked, and pirate versions are available, continued use of Denuvo simply punishes the legitimate payer. 1st Class Daniel Spunkmeyer:Why don't people make threads decrying video game/IP theft?īecause of lack of clear information and cognitive biases will predictably result in people tilting at windmills rather than dealing with realistic solutions for actual problems. "People would rather blame the bogeyman Denuvo" THIS RIGHT HEREĪt one point everyone was afraid of the dark.cuz they did not understand the dark. Originally posted by Commisar Jon ♥♥♥♥♥♥: People would rather blame the bogeyman Denuvo instead of Game Developers/Publishers releasing terribly optimized games or doing a poor job of adding Denuvo into a game which can cause problems too. Not all games with Denuvo run like crap though, tbh with how games are these days it's more likely it's just the game itself that runs like crap and not Denuvo itself.
There's no cognitive biases on display here other than your insistence on defending the practices - to no benefit of your own - that brought into being even more horrific DRM like Starforce.īefore you respond with the tired refrain of "but muh piracy causes the multi-m(b)illion dollar companies to go out of business/not break even/get herpes or something equally stupid", try to find some actual evidence of those claims. Probably because those """"thefts"""" don't cause myriad issues - some minor, others major -with the products you or I paid for. 1st Class Daniel Spunkmeyer: Muh digital theft