Wanted to buy the game, sadly "Denuvo"-cancer is included.

[JRs GamerAcc]

Wanted to buy the game, then I sadly read the "Denuvo"-cancer is included.

Dear DEVs, <b>"Denuvo" is just a slap with a chainsaw in the face of everybody willing to give you money for your game.</b> If I buy a game I want a clean performance and not being treated like the enemy.

Do your research. Who gets games illegal? (way more trouble then buying on steam) People who can't afford it, don't wanna be left out. If the price is fair, they want to support the DEVs, so they can bring out more cool games.

Funfact: Kids who played games they love and couldn't afford will later in life, when they have money, buy the old games they couldn't get legal before. I'm not saying it's okay to get them illegally. My point is: People who can afford games WILL get them legally. So you don't lose money with the other kind/poeple. It's more likely that they will join the legal channels when they can.

Does Denuvo stop tampering and cracking etc.? - No, it just pisses of people who are willing to buy the product.

I know what Denuvo can do to my privacy and my system and the performance. Therefor:
Aslong as <b>Denuvo </b> creeps in the game, I'm not interested (and I'm not the only one). Even so I love the Guardians. Hope you will come back to the "upside" of the schwartz. ;-)

[shadowthief011]

Well, ever since my old pc was damaged due to Denuvo malware,(it friggin fried my 2 months old ssd) ... I avoid games that include it like the plague no matter how baddly I want to play them(and that obviously includes this game) I'd rather wait for the denuvo to be removed, and barring that I can live without playing one game.

[CptnSpandex]

You mean playing a hacked cracked game fried your ♥♥♥♥ theres a big difference, denuvo is welcomed by those of us that buy our games.

[Portico]

My last storage drive was destroyed by Denuvo, too. It was not uncommon for the earlier iterations of the malware to brick storage devices.

[Hampton Wick]

Denuvo is never welcomed. People pirate & play the game without Denuvo. Yet we buyers get it included. Doesn't make sense. Will still keep it in my wishlist for when Denuvo is removed.

[RobotMan #08]

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

You mean playing a hacked cracked game fried your ♥♥♥♥ theres a big difference, denuvo is welcomed by those of us that buy our games.

That makes absolutely no sense since if it didn't have denuvo or was hacked, users wouldn't really have to buy it then would they?! Denuvo is well known to cause issues with games performance and most recently shut down the ability for legitimate owners to even play their purchased game...so it's not welcomed by gamers at all when people like myself couldn't play denuvo enabled games that I've owned for years all of a sudden because the company let something as simple as their domain name expire on their end. It's only purpose is for the companies that try to reduce their product from being illegally downloaded and not lose money on sales. Thankfully game companies started to remove it themselves after this crap happened too!

[Stainless Steel Rat]

Saw Denuvo on store page and was so disappointed.

[WESTG4M3R4L1F3]

saw denuvo on store page , he was with its family he was sayin hello to all of us

[Andination]

all games come with denuvo this days, maybe you should buy a ps5 and quit pc gaming entirely if its that big of an issue to you...it sucks? yeah it sucks but its there for a obvious reason: some people crack this games and its bad for their business

[Andination]

the real function of denuvo is try to keep the game uncracked for the longest time, specially at release

[JRs GamerAcc]

Originally posted by Andination:

the real function of denuvo is try to keep the game uncracked for the longest time, specially at release

<b>Doesn't prevent it.</b> Just messes with normal buyers. Check out all the articles how long it really prevents it. xD "Some games, like DOOM, were cracked on their release day. Some, like Sonic Mania, were cracked a week after release." It's like paying the mob to secure your product. Since it's the mob it's a double-egded sword. And nobody will pay you compensation for the damage done. Therefor: Done with that.

Like the Co-Founder of CD Project Red (Witcher3) and GOG put it: <b>"The piracy factor was irrelevant, because we cannot force people to buy things. We can only convince them to do it. We totally believe in the carrot, not in the stick." </b> :)

[❀❀ V ❀❀]

Originally posted by Porter |>:

It was not uncommon for the earlier iterations of the malware to brick storage devices.

lol there are zero confirmed reports of this ever happening and the "earlier iterations" you're talking about were Dragon Age Inquisition and Thats It, and it Never Happened there either. That was also nearly 10 years ago and it stemmed from a bunch of terminally online armchair developers reading Perfmon stats wrong



if you actually looked at what Denuvo does [cool link with actual findings here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Denuvo#Technical_information ] you'd realize this claim is impossible to begin with

Spoilers: Denuvo changes a flag in an encrypted file once in a blue moon when you launch the game. It does not run side by side at all times with the client.

In other words quite literally when you start a game on Steam your drive is using more reads and writes verifying file integrity with Steam than Denuvo will end up using ever

[JRs GamerAcc]

In case you can't start the game:
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/denuvo-servers-go-down-leading-to-some-games-becoming-unplayable.440421/

It's the same issue like with other games that use DENUVO (like "Battlefront II", RIP).
"The server is not reachable. Check your internet connection and click ‘Retry’."

"EU study finds piracy doesn’t hurt game sales, may actually help."

Another quote from that forum:
"Problems like this hamper people who actually paid for the product, and are getting the worse experience. This then promotes piracy more, because a pirate doesn't have to worry about the game not working, when a third party server goes down."

[eq12345]

Anything new about the date they will remove Denuvo? The usual half year after publishing date?

I don't buy anything with Denuvo, even when it's on sale (like now). I bought LIS 3 and Nier Replicant after they removed Denuvo, and both are great. So I hope to get Guardians this year without Denuvo, too.

[SenMithrarin85]

Originally posted by Porter |>:

My last storage drive was destroyed by Denuvo, too. It was not uncommon for the earlier iterations of the malware to brick storage devices.

that was false info spread by a russian blog. Has been debunked for a long time

[Death]

Originally posted by ForbeZ:

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

You mean playing a hacked cracked game fried your ♥♥♥♥ theres a big difference, denuvo is welcomed by those of us that buy our games.

That makes absolutely no sense since if it didn't have denuvo or was hacked, users wouldn't really have to buy it then would they?! Denuvo is well known to cause issues with games performance and most recently shut down the ability for legitimate owners to even play their purchased game...so it's not welcomed by gamers at all when people like myself couldn't play denuvo enabled games that I've owned for years all of a sudden because the company let something as simple as their domain name expire on their end. It's only purpose is for the companies that try to reduce their product from being illegally downloaded and not lose money on sales. Thankfully game companies started to remove it themselves after this crap happened too!

This shows that you don't know how Denuvo cracks work. Denuvo is still in the cracked version. The crack just fools it into thinking that it's made contact with the servers when it hasn't.