Honest explanation of perspective from a PC gamer deciding weather or not to buy a game I think a dev should know:

According to the game’s Epic Games Store listing, Red Dead Redemption will cost $49.99/ £39.99 on PC, despite first being released in 2010.

I don't think a game I played over 10 years ago is worth paying $40 again without some good value added to it. What makes this worth $40 to me as a consumer who enjoyed the original? I don't see enough value to justify it.

It's also a coin flip if the port is good, functional, or will have arbitrary technical limitations like no modding. I also don't want to get screwed over and inconvenienced like the last time I gave them money. They are removing value from an over priced product by slowing it down and treating you like.

If I think a game is worth pirating, I am most likely willing to buy it or a future product from that dev if the situation was different or the product was better. Hell, I pirate games I intend to buy to make sure there not absolute dog shit and technically functional. I personally don't thing its worth pirating Red Dead even without DRM, I already played it years back and I suspect Rockstar will make this version worse than the original knowing how they done things in the past.

I'm assuming I'm going to have to create an account, consent to spying, not own anything, install additional software to allow me to login and launch the game since they don't like the one I choose, figure out compatibility, be exposed to predatory monetization, install a root kit to make sure I'm not bypassing monetization or cheating, worse performance, wave legal rights to contracts, deal with too little or too much moderation, and it still may be a turd that disappears 5 years alter after all of that. None of this is fun and removes value form the fun I would expect to purchase. I'm offended they think any of this shit is good. This is what will get PC players to hate your business. If you do this crap and you can only justify it to share holders and not customers, I want you to fail.

Corporate developers make games as an investment product and not a creative product. Denuvo is in the business as a designated ball squeezer that takes the reputational heat for a greedy dev that needs 0.3% on profit chart. We are not Denuvos customers. Denuvos customers are soulless board members creating investor profit by betting their reputation is still good enough to start enshitifying without immediately getting customers to jump ship.

Having a talking head come out once a week to make an offical statement calling people literally every insult in the book for saying "Game looks like shit and this dev has a track record of being shitty, save your money" is going to start a fight.