““I think it’s super hard for a gamer,” Ullmann tells Rock Paper Shotgun. “I’m a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I’m talking about. I think it’s super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit for me that a certain game developer, game publisher, is using our anti-piracy services.” This gap, coupled with the fact that Denuvo “simply works” and “pirates cannot play games” which use it, as Ullmann puts it, are two main contributors to its negative reputation, he argues.”
Let’s not forget about being always-online or not being able to test different wine/Proton setups for fear of activating the DRM. Or even trying simply to run the game in some situations…
“I’m a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I’m talking about”
Should we call it a fallacious call to authority, meme on it for being a “how do you do, fellow gamers” moment, or simply mock the guy for whoring himself out in favor of daddy corporate? I could write an essay on the ways this is an absurd statement.
Gamers hate Denuvo because it doesn’t “simply work”. It limits paying customers from accessing their content, bogs down mid-range machines that are already overtaxxed by poor optimization and, in admittedly uncommon cases, full on breaks some games until patches and fixes roll out. Stop pretending that “gamers” are out here rioting because they’re too cheap and immoral to pay for content. Quit your fuckin’ lying.
I thought this was an onion article.
Think it would go over well at !nottheonion@lemmy.world, or do you think they’d reject it?
What’s crazy is that it’s more than that.
“I’m a gamer so I know what I’m talking about, that gamers know nothing about this topic.”
The logic is very backwards.
Spot on, bravo!
Option 4: All of the above.
and we’re tired of Denuvo lol
Denuvo’s DRM is bad for games.
DRM is shite by itself as well.
Well I’m a game dev myself and drm is bullshit. Denuvo can get fucked
Too bad you’re not a gamer like Denuvonian Man, you’d know a thing or two about games.
Good luck trying to PR like this garbage is useful to the end user, you gonna need it.
Let’s not be too hasty to call it garbage when it could in fact turn out to be rancid dog shit.
Well, he’s not wrong that it’s “super hard” to see any benefit of Denuvo for anyone other than the beneficial owners of Denuvo Software Solutions. Gamers might have a better than average ability to suspend disbelief, but that “new study” was pushing it a bit far.
I’m a gamer, therfore I know what I’m talking about. Denuvo is SHIT!
Its simple.
Pirates don’t ruin games for other players.
Pirates ruin games for the dealers.
Not necessarily even that. Piracy can benefit the developer by increasing popularity. Piracy made Bill Gates a billionaire despite his fighting tooth and nails against it.
And also for longevity of the games, I heard that one company (I don’t remember the name) selling pirated version of their games for modern system because they can’t get rid of DRM themselves
Pirates mostly enhance games, in my experience
Boohoo, Denuvo, cry me a fudging river!
fucking*
Ducking heck! 😄
God damn right!
only good thing about their drm its so expensive very few companies will pay a subscription to keep it active forever
Well, is because its true.
Denuvo: I’m tired of this grandpa!
Everyone: THAT’S TOO DAMN BAD
How do you do, fellow gamers!
We should totally just go along with DRM, or they might decide to break other stuff. This is totally an innocent request, and far from attempted extortion.
/s
Well then just stop and we stop. Fuxk them, denuvogames won’t be bought, glad steam is marking those games.
Denuvo Games Curator Gives a great and clear indicator so there’s no way you could possibly buy one by accident, like the trolls keep trying to argue will happen.
This list is awesome. Unsurprisingly nearly every game has bad reviews.
They’re not even for denuvo itself.
I wonder. Do the shitty shovelware games gravitate towards Denuvo? Or do they install denuvo as part of their enshittification process
I figure they must think they can make their games sell better if they include it because it still hasn’t occurred to these dumbasses that if your games suck people just won’t buy them. Maybe its cope, after all you can’t tap into a market of people who don’t want your game (well I mean you can, but most companies don’t consider scamming people), so they assume all the people not buying it are pirating it.
