Why No Denuvo?

[Orange Slash]

The game is a mixed bag as of right now and the fact that there is no denuvo means it can be pirated on day one of its release. Aren't you guys gonna lose sales?

There is no denying that people who dont like it wont purchase it but people who are mildly interested but not interested enough to shell out the bucks would probably just pirate it.

Considering the steam charts as by revenue stats as of now. You guys really need to put in denuvo so that you may atleast sell a couple more copies

[Verdeth]

call me naive, but for a game to be pirated it needs to be good, also cant you play this game for 5,99 a month via ea play ?

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https://steamcommunity.com/app/1845910/discussions/0/4697909390615915410/
check the video it might be pretty much the reason

Denuvo put more work into our hardware, it's 2 sided blade and the dev choose to be in player side by not including it in this game, so they maybe sincere in making this game the best of they can if they don't mind gambling about it and choose player side now.

[Agosaxv1.22474487139]

No Denuvo means Bioware donated this game to me, a brown person in a country with middle income trap in South East Asia. Thank you, Bioware.

[Agosaxv1.22474487139]

Originally posted by Astrobabe:

Originally posted by Agosaxv1.22474487139:

No Denuvo means Bioware donated this game to me, a brown person in a country with middle income trap in South East Asia. Thank you, Bioware.

Okay? You weren't going to buy it anyway. Unless you want your DEID friends to make fun of you for giving money towards a "woke" game. Bioware didn't lose anything. Maybe you'll actually enjoy the game, wouldn't that be funny? Nah, that's impossible. You'd constantly be having to endure politics being shoved down your throat.

xoxo

Thanks Bioware fore free video games!

[Agosaxv1.22474487139]

Originally posted by criffyzou:

Originally posted by Agosaxv1.22474487139:

Thanks Bioware fore free video games!

Look at you being so excited to play Veilguard :arcadeheart: heartwarming.

Free video game for us the used and the have-not.

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Weak bait.
No awards for you son

[BEEP!]

Their trying to get as much positive interaction with gamer's as possible before the game launches.
No EA app.
No DRM.
No microtransactions.
No Day 1 story DLC.
No Early access edition.
No Live Service stuff.
A $59.99 price tag.

[Deus Ex]

I mean, didn't they run tests and found out piracy has minimal effects on sales?

Isn't this whole Steam platform a shining proof of that, have a good service, and ppl will buy.
I bought bunch of stuff via Steam. Prolly too much, considering i didn't touch half my library properly, but still.
Those that want to buy it, will buy it, and those that pirate it, most never intended to buy it.
But not all, some do buy.

If against all odds i've seen so far, this game ends up good, people will buy it, hell, i will buy it too.
I'd say it's prolly for best it has no Denuvo, i respect that choice tbh, regardless of how i feel about many other decisions game is taking.
And i feel really bad about them.

[Neiker]

Bioware knows it will fail hard, soo they wanna blame piracy when it flops.

[SK]

Originally posted by Deus Ex:

I mean, didn't they run tests and found out piracy has minimal effects on sales?

Isn't this whole Steam platform a shining proof of that, have a good service, and ppl will buy.
I bought bunch of stuff via Steam. Prolly too much, considering i didn't touch half my library properly, but still.
Those that want to buy it, will buy it, and those that pirate it, most never intended to buy it.
But not all, some do buy.

If against all odds i've seen so far, this game ends up good, people will buy it, hell, i will buy it too.
I'd say it's prolly for best it has no Denuvo, i respect that choice tbh, regardless of how i feel about many other decisions game is taking.
And i feel really bad about them.

There was a recent study that showed Denuvo results in a 15%-20% increase in revenue, but only during the first few months.[www.sciencedirect.com]
After 3 months it was minimal to no effect.

If you want the full paper you can either pay for it, or email the author for a free copy. Pretty typical of published research.

[BEEP!]

Originally posted by BadToast:

Originally posted by Deus Ex:

I mean, didn't they run tests and found out piracy has minimal effects on sales?

Isn't this whole Steam platform a shining proof of that, have a good service, and ppl will buy.
I bought bunch of stuff via Steam. Prolly too much, considering i didn't touch half my library properly, but still.
Those that want to buy it, will buy it, and those that pirate it, most never intended to buy it.
But not all, some do buy.

If against all odds i've seen so far, this game ends up good, people will buy it, hell, i will buy it too.
I'd say it's prolly for best it has no Denuvo, i respect that choice tbh, regardless of how i feel about many other decisions game is taking.
And i feel really bad about them.

There was a recent study that showed Denuvo results in a 15%-20% increase in revenue, but only during the first few months.

After 3 months it was minimal to no effect.

It was more of a small study not on the levels of a government funded one the EU did a while back which basically said it was minimal at most and didn't have any meaningful impact.
But yea I'd believe it would positively effect the sales for the first few months but not anywhere near 15%-20% have you ever actually gone on those pirated website and look and see how many downloads there actually are it's like hundreds to thousands of individual downloads even the most popular website's there might be a couple thousand downloads on the best download sources and it's even smaller with torrents because nobody really likes using torrents anymore these days.
Like were talking about maybe 10k download with 3-5 of the most popular pirate website combines for the biggest game launches, and you have remember many many pirates would have never bough the game in the first place so it's not really a lost or potential sale for a good chunk of those download.
Overall I'd guess at most a couple percent that's it with he first couple months anything after that it's not really worth it to keep denuvo up and going I'd be 100% ok if a game launched with Denuvo and took it off after like 3-5months then there's another part of exspansoins I would also understand if they put Denuvo on the DLC files as well for another 3-5months because Denuvo can protect individual DLCs as well that to I would be cool with as long as it's removed months later.

[JOKER]

They're gonna use that as an excuse for poor sales numbers

[Grubbs008]

Originally posted by Monke:

They're gonna use that as an excuse for poor sales numbers

They will do what Bethesda did, and just blame the customers for low number sand negative reviews saying "They just don't get it"

[The Siberian Express]

who's going to pirate this garbage lol

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Originally posted by Grubbs008:

Originally posted by Monke:

They're gonna use that as an excuse for poor sales numbers

They will do what Bethesda did, and just blame the customers for low number sand negative reviews saying "They just don't get it"

Starfield was really fun and I enjoyed it very much but after several hundred of hours it become very repetitive then the universe feels empty, they need to do something about it.
Check my review of Starfield for more complete review about it.