You don't need Devuvo

[mhenryblack]

Clearly your game is going to make money, I say it's safe for you to remove the performance sapping DRM.

They're going to crack it anyway.

Why not thank all the people who bought your game, and give it the performance it deserves?

[Saii]

What is devuvo?

[mhenryblack]

It's a third party digital Rights Management software, that this game uses, that notoriously diminishes performance in games.

I could understand its use if they were worried about piracy, but clearly people are supporting the game.

Ironically, Denuvo gets cracked by pirates all the time, so the only people who really suffer for it are the legitimate customers who have to use it in their legitimately purchased software.

[SZ]

Depends on who is in control of making the decisions, if it's a small company then Denuvo is usually too expensive. But if it's backed by a larger organization (like Tencent) Denuvo might be permanent.

[SZ]

Originally posted by mhenryblack:

It's a third party digital Rights Management software, that this game uses, that notoriously diminishes performance in games.

I could understand its use if they were worried about piracy, but clearly people are supporting the game.

Ironically, Denuvo gets cracked by pirates all the time, so the only people who really suffer for it are the legitimate customers who have to use it in their legitimately purchased software.

Not so much these days, it's rare that a Denuvo game gets cracked.

[Saii]

Yeah I know denuvo and the same old story.

But, what is devuvo?

[koinzell]

i was close to buying it to make a statement against the annoying creeps,
til i saw the denuvo warning steam group on the store page.

iv programmed myself to avoid 3rd party DRMs that isn't steam.

[Saii]

Originally posted by koinzell:

iv programmed myself to avoid 3rd party DRMs that isn't steam.

Ok, what programming language did you use? C# or Python?
Did you make it failsafe?

[Klimakompressor #62]

Same for me—I was hyped until I saw Denuvo, which means I can barely play on medium graphics and can't use the full potential of the game.

So, it seems like I'm going to become a pirate and wait for the Denuvo-free treasure.

[CheeseBoar]

No game needs Denuvo. Does anyone really believe that the piracy numbers were *so bad* that titles like Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Palworld, Elden Ring, and everything made by Sony and Microsoft weren't worth releasing without Denuvo? If that were the case, then they wouldn't keep releasing them without Denuvo, yet that's exactly what they do, and a bunch of those games are completely DRM-free, to boot.

If you make a game that a) is made well, and b) people actually want to play, then it'll sell without the need of extra, server-based DRM. I had Wukong on my wishlist until Denuvo showed up, at which point I removed it. I'll gladly buy this when the unnecessary restriction is removed. I'm not going to ask permission every time I want to play something that I'm expected to pay for.

[SevenZ]

Bought the game, played for a few minutes. Had a lot of Performance issue. Googled the issue, found out Devuvo causing those issues. Read move about Devuvo. I started to hate that company. Refunded the game. Now I m gonna wait for the crack to come out. K thanks bye

[ele]

Nobody is cracking denuvo at the moment hence the companies still using it.

[mikef12306]

They aren't using devuvo.

[2485280]

There were bigger game studios able to did it in the past, but no one really knows what kind of deals was made between different parties(investors, platforms,) and how costly it might be to adjust those terms.
For a game of this size and a new studio like GS, it's unlikely one single party can decide what happens in the marketing and profitability of the game.

[Viper]

why remove it and spend money to do so when you sell 10 million copies in 2 days...lol

[The Ultimate Despair]

Originally posted by Saii:

What is devuvo?

It's a cope mechanism for people to whine about poor performance even though they have zero understanding themselves of how computer works.