Please add an option to block games that use DENUVO from appearing in searches/etc.

[Sheakiru]

im certain this feature will actually be used by a decent percent of steam users
and this seems the most reasonable way to go about it aside from tagging games that use denuvo as such then blocking the tag

Denuvo is hated by numerous gamers

personally ive been let down several times seeing a game i really wanted, only to find out it came with denuvo which i refuse to have on my pc...
among other issues it causes some folk, and aside from being an unwanted DRM that we, the people who buy the game can suffer larger game price tags, from added costs a dev/publisher may feel the right to tack on cause they use it... anything that enforces you to be online for even single player games should be illegal

its a video game ankle monitor

[Sheakiru]

Side note: seeing how many people have denuvo blocked from showing on steam, may entice devs/publishers to not use it at all or at least remove it sooner, to boost sales down the road

[TBS AlexDK]

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

Side note: seeing how many people have denuvo blocked from showing on steam, may entice devs/publishers to not use it at all or at least remove it sooner, to boost sales down the road

Either create or join a curator, and then block all the games that use denuvo

[Ben Lubar]

There's a lot of scary misinformation about things people imagined Denuvo doing to their computers out there, but in reality, it's just a tool that obfuscates the game's code, making it harder to reverse engineer. They're not stealing your data and uploading it to some secret evil server in a volcano. They're not decrypting and re-encrypting data and wasting a ridiculous number of CPU cycles. Does it suck for people like me who sometimes have fun taking a game apart and seeing how it ticks? Yes, but if you want to play a game, Denuvo shouldn't be the reason you decide not to.

[The nubinator]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

There's a lot of scary misinformation about things people imagined Denuvo doing to their computers out there, but in reality, it's just a tool that obfuscates the game's code, making it harder to reverse engineer. They're not stealing your data and uploading it to some secret evil server in a volcano. They're not decrypting and re-encrypting data and wasting a ridiculous number of CPU cycles. Does it suck for people like me who sometimes have fun taking a game apart and seeing how it ticks? Yes, but if you want to play a game, Denuvo shouldn't be the reason you decide not to.

Its a rootkit. Never trust a security company with the key to your actual house.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by TBS AlexDK:

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

Side note: seeing how many people have denuvo blocked from showing on steam, may entice devs/publishers to not use it at all or at least remove it sooner, to boost sales down the road

Either create or join a curator, and then block all the games that use denuvo

IIRC, there is/was an anti-Denuvo, or anti-DRM, group.

edit:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoGames
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454/

This one looks dead which is a shame with a group name like it has. They need some new users with some initiative to carry the flag and create a curator for it:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/nodrm

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by The nubinator:

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

There's a lot of scary misinformation about things people imagined Denuvo doing to their computers out there, but in reality, it's just a tool that obfuscates the game's code, making it harder to reverse engineer. They're not stealing your data and uploading it to some secret evil server in a volcano. They're not decrypting and re-encrypting data and wasting a ridiculous number of CPU cycles. Does it suck for people like me who sometimes have fun taking a game apart and seeing how it ticks? Yes, but if you want to play a game, Denuvo shouldn't be the reason you decide not to.

Its a rootkit. Never trust a security company with the key to your actual house.

I'm sorry you've been misinformed like that, but Denuvo absolutely does not have that level of privileges. They couldn't make it into a rootkit if they wanted to.

[Sheakiru]

super useful links. but sadly doesn't address the main issue of being able to prevent them in searches... ive actually got a number of games on my w list that have denuvo that im hoping get rid of it before i lose interest. but id honestly rather never allow them in there in the first place

and dev/publishers need to know how many people refuse to even look at their game if it has the unwanted hitch hiker... denuvo is just a scam on par with nft's sold to people with lots of money who dont actually need it and loose money and trust in the long run due to the "investment"

[Lone Wolf]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

There's a lot of scary misinformation about things people imagined Denuvo doing to their computers out there, but in reality, it's just a tool that obfuscates the game's code, making it harder to reverse engineer. They're not stealing your data and uploading it to some secret evil server in a volcano. They're not decrypting and re-encrypting data and wasting a ridiculous number of CPU cycles. Does it suck for people like me who sometimes have fun taking a game apart and seeing how it ticks? Yes, but if you want to play a game, Denuvo shouldn't be the reason you decide not to.

For me, it's the fact that the game could decide to phone home to servers that are offline and poof. Gone.

[HikariLight]

And the number of gamers that hate DRM and Denuvo are in a minority of gamers.
And most of them completely misunderstand what Denuvo and DRM are even for.

[Sheakiru]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

And the number of gamers that hate DRM and Denuvo are in a minority of gamers.
And most of them completely misunderstand what Denuvo and DRM are even for.

which only proves -you- have misunderstood why we hate denuvo and wont knowingly allow it on our computers... publishers are REQUIRED to warn us its in use for a reason

[HikariLight]

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

And the number of gamers that hate DRM and Denuvo are in a minority of gamers.
And most of them completely misunderstand what Denuvo and DRM are even for.

which only proves -you- have misunderstood why we hate denuvo and wont knowingly allow it on our computers... publishers are REQUIRED to warn us its in use for a reason

They tell you so that they can sue you if you decide to try and pirate the game.

You clearly have no understanding of how the system works do you?

[Sheakiru]

you are not even understanding what im saying.. you are on attention seeking defend this thing to get a reaction mode

go read this or watch one of the dozen videos about why denuvo is a plague
https://denuvotruth.blogspot.com/2023/04/causes-games-to-expire.html

[HikariLight]

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

you are not even understanding what im saying.. you are on attention seeking defend this thing to get a reaction mode

go read this or watch one of the dozen videos about why denuvo is a plague
https://denuvotruth.blogspot.com/2023/04/causes-games-to-expire.html

If Denuvo is as illegal as that BS of an article states, why has no one sued and won?

Because they don't have a case, at all.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Sheakiru:

you are not even understanding what im saying.. you are on attention seeking defend this thing to get a reaction mode

Well... i mean you did come here seeking attention yourself and attention you received, perhaps not the kind you were aiming for but still attention none the less. You could have simply joined the existing topics regarding this to voice your opinion but again since seeking attention is at play it resulted in this topic being created. For now seek curators, research, what ever means you can find to block denuvo games if they are not to your liking and move on as I doubt the nth topic of this created and shot down will change that soon.

[Sheakiru]

i had checked some other post topics first.
i dont recall them having the same "context" of requesting valve to give us the option to block denuvo games from coming up in searches, so i made one