What really is Denuvo Anti-tamper?

[Bartzabel]

Why is it even needed in single player games?

[mostly5]

Originally posted by bRKN:

anti-tamper software, aka devs/publishers pay for a certain amount of time for it to be in a game. it prevents or delays piracy at a cost of your game running poorly.

Sadly Final Fantasy 15 on PC still has Denuvos while Final Fantasy 16 no longer does. So I wouldn't say games have them for a set amount of time.

[CheeseBoar]

Originally posted by mostly5:

Originally posted by bRKN:

anti-tamper software, aka devs/publishers pay for a certain amount of time for it to be in a game. it prevents or delays piracy at a cost of your game running poorly.

Sadly Final Fantasy 15 on PC still has Denuvos while Final Fantasy 16 no longer does. So I wouldn't say games have them for a set amount of time.

Denuvo used to be a one-and-done license, but it's now a monthly fee. That's why older games still have Denuvo: The only motivation a company would have to remove it would be that they care about their paying customers, and, well...

[min3r95]

Originally posted by CheeseBoar:

Denuvo used to be a one-and-done license, but it's now a monthly fee. That's why older games still have Denuvo: The only motivation a company would have to remove it would be that they care about their paying customers, and, well...

we have no idea whether Irdeto abandon the model or not though

[Outlaw Mugen]

Originally posted by zero254:

wild to see them put pesticides on a product that is already inedible

yeah... plus they still force Uplay on Steam. So 3 DRM's and data collection for only 80 euro for standard edition.

[St. Haborym]

Originally posted by tpowl1400:

DRM / Denuvo is essentially anti-piracy software that game developers integrate into any game's executable file.

constantly reads your ssd --> slows down your pc. Denuvo is what differentiates having a game purchased from places like Steam / Epic Games from GOG in that former two requires you to be all the time internet connected while the latter doesn't. Goes into this entire argument of having the sense of ownership of software as a result.

But you really don't own a software by another company no matter how you purchase the game from where. But yeah DRM or Denuvo's biggest problem is having to read your game constantly throughout your entire playthrough which does affect your gameplay performance.

3 clown awards? I wonder how much ubisoft is paying those shills

[Snipy]

Originally posted by Outlaw Mugen:

Originally posted by zero254:

wild to see them put pesticides on a product that is already inedible

yeah... plus they still force Uplay on Steam. So 3 DRM's and data collection for only 80 euro for standard edition.

Ubisoft connect is primary launcher for Ubisoft games ! Steam is just middle man store, and DRM bloatware !
You want have less DRMs , buy directly from Ubisoft store !

[a x o]

Piracy bad, Denuvo good.

[R2-D2]

The anti-piracy is one thing, but who wants to pay £60-75 to have an office job of signing up for online accounts? Also this game seems terrible.

[St. Haborym]

Originally posted by Xylo:

Originally posted by zero254:

wild to see them put pesticides on a product that is already inedible

I like this saying :D

Pesticides would imply that what they're doing has some sort of benefit.

Originally posted by SharpenedRazors:

Because game preservation is bad. simple as.

[lukaself]

Originally posted by Snipy:

You want have less DRMs , buy directly from Ubisoft store !

HAHAHAHAHA...

[Tegridy Farms]

Originally posted by lukaself:

Originally posted by Snipy:

You want have less DRMs , buy directly from Ubisoft store !

HAHAHAHAHA... :lunar2019laughingpig::lunar2019crylaughingpig:

That's like being a vegetarian and going to shop at the butcher's.

[Dogmeat]

It's third-party malware that Ubisoft (and other companies) license and then force the customers to pay for and install to play the game they paid for. It supposedly prevents piracy, at the cost of loosing fps in-game and possibly other security and/or privacy issues.

[AdahnGorion]

A vile DRM that makes playing videogames a hassle for the paying consumer.
Basically its there to piss you off and take away performance. factor in that its 3rd party and have kernal access, so it might also steal information and be used for malicious usage.

[Dagtag]

Originally posted by Dogmeat:

It's third-party malware that Ubisoft (and other companies) license and then force the customers to pay for and install to play the game they paid for. It supposedly prevents piracy, at the cost of loosing fps in-game and possibly other security and/or privacy issues.

You don’t seem to understand what the word malware means.

Its performance impact is negligible when implemented properly, especially on modern hardware it isn’t even noticeable. This “it affects performance” is completely and uttererly false, it is a statement that has been spread around by people who didn’t know what their tests were showing them. Testing different versions with numerous differences outside of denuvo and then linking the performance impact to denuvo.

Look at re village, denuvo wasn’t the culprit, the capcom drm was. Hogwarts legacy? The steam overlay.

And no, there are no real privacy issues…

[lukaself]

Denuvo isn’t malware? Fine, let’s not get lost in pedantry. What it does is enforce planned obsolescence - corporate jargon for screwing over customers. If a game is designed to break the moment Denuvo's servers vanish or the publisher decides it’s no longer worth maintaining, that’s not just bad design; it’s theft in slow motion.

Call it whatever you want: Rose-Scented Flowerware, Magic Anti-Tamper Dust... at the end of the day, it’s still an artificial barrier between the game and the player, one that requires permission from a corporation every single time you want to play something you paid for.

Enough with the sugarcoated language. DRM like this exists to control, not protect.