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Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League adds Denuvo DRM before launch (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 9 months ago

I don't believe that even without DRM the game would've been pirated that much... i mean people usually pirate games they actually want to play lmao.

But let's see how long it takes the industry to realize that games like bg3 and palworlds, that don't have any DRM, are still money making machines.... hmmm

[-] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Never underestimate how much people want to see a trainwreck up close. Of course, pirating is free, I doubt many people want to pay money for a trainwreck, so not sure if Denuvo is really going to save them from losing actual sales

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Seriously "#1 sold game on steam in 2024" ah yes, because that's a good metric when it's been only one month and the biggest titles have a tendency to drop in December

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Also, doesn't the game currently require an internet connection to play?

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Maybe, but when people talk about "cracking" a video game, they mean removing the telemetry parts of the .exe that might phone home and tattle on you. So often a cracked version of a game will have most online features removed. If it's a game with a single-player campaign, it might still be totally playable.

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Perhaps, but the devs have now said that offline single player mode is a feature coming "soon after launch", which says to me that perhaps it's more coupled to a server than just a bit of telemetry, or they'd be far more reactive to the public response about the online requirement. Not to say that I know for sure; it's just a gut feeling.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah we'll only know for sure after it comes out, and after we see what the pirates are able to do. Pirating online-only games is also possible, it's just more difficult so it's less common. Maybe the pirates will wait until the single player mode launches.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Not on an online only AAA game.

Otherwise I’d be playing some sort of Marvel Heroes Omega or Destiny offline.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Plenty of pirates games do, it's never stopped them from figuring out how to get it working lol

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

It certainly has. Try pirating Marvel Heroes or The Crew.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

This seems like EXACTLY the type of game I would pirate, if I was still a teenager pirating games. Something without online play (or with online play that I don't care about) that looks kinda dumb but maybe it could be funny, and I don't feel like it's worth full price. So I would just pirate it, play it halfway through, get bored, and delete it.

I'm too old for that shit now, I don't want viruses on my PC because I store things on there that are actually IMPORTANT, instead of just porn and video games. But back then, I'd risk a virus for this mediocre-looking Suicide Squad game.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 0 points 9 months ago

Understandable. But viruses arent that common from what I hear. Especially if you know your sources.

People Re coming back to pirating since all media becomes fractured, more expensive and worse.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh, pirating movies/TV/music is a totally different story, the risk of a virus is near zero if you're careful, because you're not running random .exe's. I said that I was done pirating video games, not that I was done pirating completely. 😄

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 9 months ago

Oh! Thanks for clarifying. That makes sense I guess. Will keep that in mind.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 32 points 9 months ago

We're now at the "I dunno how much more worse we can make it but let's keep adding more shit and find out" phase of the failure of the Suicide Squad game.

[-] Glitchington@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Just saw the article about early access premium players having the game auto-complete on first login. DRM should be the last thing on their minds.

[-] peter@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

If they make it bad enough nobody will play it and it'll save them the embarrassment

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

The Batgirl technique!

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I watched a trailer and gameplay and some interviews for the first time yesterday and it's such a bummer vecause some of the ideas that they have are really interesting, and i think the game could have some potential, if you are into the kind of looter shooter thing. But i have very little hope for the game. Little to no

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 months ago

Given how much of the game seems to be live service slop I don't even know how functional a pirated copy that couldn't phone home would be

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

It's so weird. It's like pirating destiny 2.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I wonder if it’s to make sure people haven’t modified the client to run cheats, give themselves level 999 weapons and such.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

arent anticheats cheaper though?

not that i hate that it wont have anticheat but corps are stingy and denuvo wants a hefty sum to protect a game.

[-] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

How to kill that which was already dead...

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

With all the negative press this game has been getting, they might as well rename it to Suicide Squad Kill Rocksteady Studios.

[-] ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 8 points 9 months ago

If a game uses Denuvo, I refuse to buy it. It's unacceptable.

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