Denuvo and Ubisoft account required!

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

Why on earth the PC port had to be incorporated with Denuvo as well as Ubisoft account required?

[ŁōãF]

I personally don't care.

I have an Ubisoft account anyway and I never had problems with denuvo, I already pre ordered.

[Apoc]

Denuvo and Ubisoft Connect might annoy some, but Ubisoft’s got solid reasons. Denuvo shields Assassin's Creed Shadows—a huge investment—from piracy at launch, and performance gripes are overblown; modern PCs handle it fine, especially with Ubisoft’s optimization chops (think Mirage, Valhalla). The account link? It’s for cross-platform saves, rewards, and a connected experience—small trade-off for big perks. They’re not spying with RAM checks; it’s just anti-cheat to keep things fair. Ubisoft’s bold moves protect their craft, and Shadows proves they’re still a top-tier dev swinging for greatness. Give ‘em credit—it’s paying off!

[Panky..]

Originally posted by Apoc:

Denuvo and Ubisoft Connect might annoy some, but Ubisoft’s got solid reasons. Denuvo shields Assassin's Creed Shadows—a huge investment—from piracy at launch, and performance gripes are overblown; modern PCs handle it fine, especially with Ubisoft’s optimization chops (think Mirage, Valhalla). The account link? It’s for cross-platform saves, rewards, and a connected experience—small trade-off for big perks. They’re not spying with RAM checks; it’s just anti-cheat to keep things fair. Ubisoft’s bold moves protect their craft, and Shadows proves they’re still a top-tier dev swinging for greatness. Give ‘em credit—it’s paying off!

Corporate shill Bot talking points.

[Deerz]

Originally posted by Apoc:

Denuvo and Ubisoft Connect might annoy some, but Ubisoft’s got solid reasons. Denuvo shields Assassin's Creed Shadows—a huge investment—from piracy at launch, and performance gripes are overblown; modern PCs handle it fine, especially with Ubisoft’s optimization chops (think Mirage, Valhalla). The account link? It’s for cross-platform saves, rewards, and a connected experience—small trade-off for big perks. They’re not spying with RAM checks; it’s just anti-cheat to keep things fair. Ubisoft’s bold moves protect their craft, and Shadows proves they’re still a top-tier dev swinging for greatness. Give ‘em credit—it’s paying off!

yeah that 4 fps loss is a lot yes

[Trilantini]

Originally posted by Panky..:

Corporate shill Bot talking points.

- Or an actual response. Despite disliking drm, this one if it's properly implemented doesn't cost any huge performance hit.
- For Ubisoft account also, it's 100% truth. Cross save and also other small ubisoft perks. At least with achievements, there is reason to collect them comparing to steam ones.
- RAM check was already debunked years ago, but for some reason people are still talking about it. They stated that it was never used and clearly demonstrated it. It's only part of EULA for legal reasons. If they used it, like the other one said it would have been something related to cheats. Clearly they work fine, so there are none of it in background.

[whocares916]

people just love to find new ways of complaining about something

[Jem]

Originally posted by Trilantini:

- RAM check was already debunked years ago,

Source ?

They stated that it was never used and clearly demonstrated it.

Source ?

If they used it, like the other one said it would have been something related to cheats.

Anticheats have to access RAM to be proper anti-cheats. It's mandatory. Stop lying.

Here a video to educate yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JhKU_ujlhs

[ŁōãF]

Originally posted by Panky..:

Originally posted by Apoc:

Denuvo and Ubisoft Connect might annoy some, but Ubisoft’s got solid reasons. Denuvo shields Assassin's Creed Shadows—a huge investment—from piracy at launch, and performance gripes are overblown; modern PCs handle it fine, especially with Ubisoft’s optimization chops (think Mirage, Valhalla). The account link? It’s for cross-platform saves, rewards, and a connected experience—small trade-off for big perks. They’re not spying with RAM checks; it’s just anti-cheat to keep things fair. Ubisoft’s bold moves protect their craft, and Shadows proves they’re still a top-tier dev swinging for greatness. Give ‘em credit—it’s paying off!

Corporate shill Bot talking points.

Dirty smelly pirate without money.

[PainKiller]

Originally posted by francross:

Denuvo = No buy

Denuvo = no free game for you, pirate scum 🖕

[Jem]

Originally posted by ŁōãF:

Originally posted by Panky..:

Corporate shill Bot talking points.

Dirty smelly pirate without money.

The Witcher 3 had no protection day one, and sold 50+millions copies, and was a AAA at that time. Try again.

[Panky..]

Originally posted by ŁōãF:

Dirty smelly pirate without money.

Originally posted by PainKiller:

Denuvo = no free game for you, pirate scum 🖕

More like self-respecting gamer who doesn't lick corporate boots, especially not a ♥♥♥♥ one like Ubisoft. I'm not gonna even bother pirating this game lmao, Ubisoft games are that lowly in quality, not even worth the bandwidth to pirate. You're naive if you think it won't be pirated simply because of DRM, there's other means to piracy outside of simply cracking.

Also try Witcher 3 (which I have 1k+ hours of), no Denuvo, still bought, never pirated. Or the many DRM free games that have been hot sellers.

[weiss]

Originally posted by werwolfgaming:

Ubisoft has always used denuvo atleast since valhalla

this ... the ubisoft launcher thing is probably annoying.
denuvo is nowadays aswell not longer that bad then it was years ago. i mean, not defending the DRM since it is kind of intrusive but then again. when ubisoft releases a game should you expect that denuvo is used as DRM. same with sega and recently square enix aswell.

[weiss]

Originally posted by Panky..:

Also try Witcher 3 (which I have 1k+ hours of), no Denuvo, still bought, never pirated. Or the many DRM free games that have been hot sellers.

uh, i would not say that witcher 3 got never pirated. am pretty sure that peoples which dont have the money pirated it.

i pirated the witcher 3 too, not because i didnt had the money, i had backthen a potato PC and wanted to know if it even runs on my PC before i bought it (yes i own the witcher 3 xD)
so, me writing this is atleast 1 person which pirated the witcher 3 for the reason if the PC can run it or not. that means your assumption that the witcher 3 got never pirated is with this void ... lol.

i mean, you could argue now with "but you bought it in the end" yes, but fact is, i pirated it first for PC test reasons, so. it got atleast once pirated xD.

[Panky..]

Originally posted by weiss:

uh, i would not say that witcher 3 got never pirated. am pretty sure that peoples which dont have the money pirated it.

i pirated the witcher 3 too, not because i didnt had the money, i had backthen a potato PC and wanted to know if it even runs on my PC before i bought it (yes i own the witcher 3 xD)
so, me writing this is atleast 1 person which pirated the witcher 3 for the reason if the PC can run it or not. that means your assumption that the witcher 3 got never pirated is with this void ... lol.

i mean, you could argue now with "but you bought it in the end" yes, but fact is, i pirated it first for PC test reasons, so. it got atleast once pirated xD.

My point wasn't that it wasn't pirated, but that it being pirated didn't hurt it from being a hot seller. And when I say "never pirated", I was talking about myself to negate the accusation that I'm upset about DRM because "yuhr a pyrat" false accusations from the other guy. Maybe I should have worded that better.

It being pirated is irrelevant to the picture, since those pirates are either repack downloaders to save bandwidth (then verifying those files in their legit version, I do this myself), try-before-buyers (like yourself), or were never gonna buy the game at all. Piracy is irrelevant to a game selling, it has no noticeable impact. Ironically, as proven with your own anecdote, piracy helped boost a game's sale.

The only negative to sales is how the game is priced, sold and presented. All corporate/developer side decisions. In Ubisoft's case, they fail on all three parts (poor regional pricing, DRM and other anti-consumer models, poor quality slop).

[Grisu]

Don't buy or wait until it is removed. Simple.