Get rid of Denuvo

[Ilyana Scarlet]

I would love to play your Crash Bandicoot clone. I will not be fiscally supporting someone implementing this crap.

For a studio that supposedly has not developed anything else yet, and a publisher with only a handful of other titles, you should know better. You are literally creating a title that will be a better experience for pirates than for paying customers. And you are not selling a major IP that is big enough to get away with this ultimatum, this is suicide.

[Rednote #FixTF2]

Denuvo? Really?

Sorry guys, Denuvo is a dealbreaker

[Laika]

I bet they spend half of the income revenue on the Denuvo License now.

[Sunsetter]

Originally posted by Laika:

I bet they spend half of the income revenue on the Denuvo License now.

That's good, if they have that kind of money, they wont mind the game flopping.

[DosBoss]

agreed, sick of seeing this anti consumer crap shovelled into everything.

[Sidon Cryerd]

I hate denuvo breaking the entire game, this was disappointing

[Me0wish]

Delayed PC release and Denuvo. You've easily killed my excitement.

[BLINXERIZER]

Yup I was excited for this to finally release on PC after the console version... wasn't expecting to see Denuvo. You can forget about getting my money now until you remove it.

[Guybrush]

Now even small indies has denuvo? Why? Companies hates theirs clients?
I'm so sad with currently gamming state.

[Rings]

Denuvo??? Why?

Are you kidding me? After all this time, this releases with Denuvo? And here I was hopeful of a GOG release.

[Sidon Cryerd]

unfortunately there is denuvo unfortunately I downvoted the game because of that.

[Rings]

Originally posted by Sidon Cryerd:

unfortunately there is denuvo unfortunately I downvoted the game because of that.

Nice. I like how there's currently 1 user review (yours, negative) yet it's showing a score of 40.58%. Wonder where it's getting that 40.58% from lol.

[lukaself]

Originally posted by Guybrush:

Now even small indies has denuvo? Why? Companies hates theirs clients?
I'm so sad with currently gamming state.

The publisher, My.Games is actually a AAA company with more than 2000 employees, themselves are owned by a russian tech company with more than 10000 employees. They're only pretending to be small hiding under the "Knights Peak" label.

Posing as indie allows large companies to deceptively exploit the goodwill and trust reserved for genuine independent creators, masking their corporate practices to manipulate consumer perception and lower scrutiny.

[Rednote #FixTF2]

Originally posted by lukaself:

Originally posted by Guybrush:

Now even small indies has denuvo? Why? Companies hates theirs clients?
I'm so sad with currently gamming state.

The publisher, My.Games is actually a AAA company with more than 2000 employees, themselves are owned by a russian tech company with more than 10000 employees. They're only pretending to be small hiding under the "Knights Peak" label.

Posing as indie allows large companies to deceptively exploit the goodwill and trust reserved for genuine independent creators, masking their corporate practices to manipulate consumer perception and lower scrutiny.

Sorry to doubt, but do You have any sources to back the claim?

[[FR-CM]Halth]

Originally posted by lukaself:

Originally posted by Guybrush:

Now even small indies has denuvo? Why? Companies hates theirs clients?
I'm so sad with currently gamming state.

The publisher, My.Games is actually a AAA company with more than 2000 employees, themselves are owned by a russian tech company with more than 10000 employees. They're only pretending to be small hiding under the "Knights Peak" label.

Posing as indie allows large companies to deceptively exploit the goodwill and trust reserved for genuine independent creators, masking their corporate practices to manipulate consumer perception and lower scrutiny.

Hi lukaself! MY.GAMES is based in Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and stopped operations in Russia over a year ago. Knights Peak is a division of MY.GAMES dedicated to publishing amazing premium titles like Nikoderiko: The Magical World.

While it's true that the publisher is big, the developers are a small independent team. Many indie developers seek out publishers to ease their workload for release and help reach as many players as possible through marketing.

VEA Games are a small company dedicated to creating games inspired by ones they loved from childhood. And as for Knights Peak, we're here to enjoy a magical co-op platformer, and help as many players as possible enjoy it too!

Regarding Denuvo, it CAN have impact on performance if a game is especially heavy on resource consumption - which is not the case with Nikoderiko, a game designed to run even on older computers. We understand the frustration about Denuvo, but it does help smaller games to avoid piracy for a time.

As someone who presumably also loves platformers and co-op games, and maybe even wants to support the developers behind Nikoderiko, we hope you understand that we want them to receive all due credit and funds for their hard work.

I hope this helps in understanding our current position, we hope you give Nikoderiko a shot!

[Ness_and_Sonic]

This is why I don't preorder games any more. I'm not worried about performance so much as I am about the online check. It's one thing to implement something like that in a game where you're always playing online anyway such as It Takes Two, but I do feel like it shouldn't be a part of games where you play offline as it could make the game unplayable due to a situation like Crowdstrike or your connection going bad. In fact, the whole situation with The Crew kicked off a movement called Stop Killing Games.

Anyway, while I would have loved to pick this up to play with a friend through remote play together, I've gotten a good Christmas themed game during the recent sale I can play instead you until decide to find an alternative solution that doesn't require an online check.