Denuvo - what's the point?

[Covidian Masktard]

I really don't get what's the point of this anti-piracy stuff. We need a brand new key/internet access to acquire the game; isn't that good enough? Seems like it's just pure anti-consumer corporate crap that we can't escape from. How does it supposedly work?

Also, it's really shady how they don't mention this game has this literally until the moment it's released.

[potato]

Originally posted by Covidian Masktard:

How does it supposedly work?

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

[CheeseBoar]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Covidian Masktard:

How does it supposedly work?

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

Which is still a stupid reason to implement it in the first place. Control didn't need any DRM. Baldur's Gate 3 didn't need any DRM. Palworld, Cyberpunk 2077, and Hades didn't need any DRM. Elden Ring didn't need Denuvo. What Denuvo *really* does is restrict paying customers and treat everyone like thieves by default, when it's been proven that DRM isn't needed for your game to sell like crazy if said game is good and everyone actually wants to play it.

[UnL1k3]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Covidian Masktard:

How does it supposedly work?

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

Who cares, not like us pirates would've bought it in the first place. Adding denuvo just hurts the paying customer.

[LazyboyXD]

Originally posted by UnL1k3:

Originally posted by potato:

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

Who cares, not like us pirates would've bought it in the first place. Adding denuvo just hurts the paying customer.

That's what people dont get.

Pirate will not buy the game anyway, so why punish us the paying customer?
Then you get user who defend practice like these, brain dead monkey.

[xpe]

Dead Island 2's Denuvo was cracked 9 months ago. Not sure why it's still here other than annoy paying customers.

[mc]

Originally posted by xpe:

Dead Island 2's Denuvo was cracked 9 months ago. Not sure why it's still here other than annoy paying customers.

Turn away paying customers*

[UnL1k3]

Originally posted by LazyboyXD:

Originally posted by UnL1k3:

Who cares, not like us pirates would've bought it in the first place. Adding denuvo just hurts the paying customer.

That's what people dont get.

Pirate will not buy the game anyway, so why punish us the paying customer?
Then you get user who defend practice like these, brain dead monkey.

Facts! Best part is that the game has already been cracked making denuvo useless.

[ShillHog]

Originally posted by LazyboyXD:

Originally posted by UnL1k3:

Who cares, not like us pirates would've bought it in the first place. Adding denuvo just hurts the paying customer.

That's what people dont get.

Pirate will not buy the game anyway, so why punish us the paying customer?
Then you get user who defend practice like these, brain dead monkey.

Obviously, they hate their consumers with a devilish passion. You’re nothing but an electronic ATM.

[Covidian Masktard]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Covidian Masktard:

How does it supposedly work?

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

Freeloaders don't acquire new keys.

[pedrojdm2014]

Originally posted by CheeseBoar:

Originally posted by potato:

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

Which is still a stupid reason to implement it in the first place. Control didn't need any DRM. Baldur's Gate 3 didn't need any DRM. Palworld, Cyberpunk 2077, and Hades didn't need any DRM. Elden Ring didn't need Denuvo. What Denuvo *really* does is restrict paying customers and treat everyone like thieves by default, when it's been proven that DRM isn't needed for your game to sell like crazy if said game is good and everyone actually wants to play it.

The game is not single player only, it has multiplayer co-op. so there's that.

[Purple Sauce]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Covidian Masktard:

How does it supposedly work?

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

This is stupid because it screws over your paying customers. Those people were never your customers to begin with so why screw over the ones paying for your product?

[Ghost Sonic]

Denuvo and epic games store exclusive is the reason I bought the console version of dead island 2.

Denuvo will one day go bankrupt resulting in dead island 2 and other DRM protected games becoming unplayable and even some server issues is another problem like in 2021 when denuvo made games unplayable.

[Purple Sauce]

Originally posted by UnL1k3:

Originally posted by LazyboyXD:

That's what people dont get.

Pirate will not buy the game anyway, so why punish us the paying customer?
Then you get user who defend practice like these, brain dead monkey.

Facts! Best part is that the game has already been cracked making denuvo useless.

They bought denuvo for a cracked game? That's hilarious. I'm probably gonna go download that too and play offline so I don't have to install Chinese spyware on my PC just to play.

[ShillHog]

It scrapes your PC for data they can sell.

[GR4V3 MIST4K3]

Originally posted by CheeseBoar:

Originally posted by potato:

it works by preventing freeloaders from playing the game

Which is still a stupid reason to implement it in the first place. Control didn't need any DRM. Baldur's Gate 3 didn't need any DRM. Palworld, Cyberpunk 2077, and Hades didn't need any DRM. Elden Ring didn't need Denuvo. What Denuvo *really* does is restrict paying customers and treat everyone like thieves by default, when it's been proven that DRM isn't needed for your game to sell like crazy if said game is good and everyone actually wants to play it.

Meanwhile, publishers who force intrusive copy-protection on their Clients will claim that those games could have sold more copies if they had copy-protection. But then we don't know about the precise numbers.

The Chinese spyware argument is childish, if you have a smartphone your data is being processed somewhere, likely some of it without consent i.e. phones always listening and showing ads for key phrases you spoke about near the phone.