Exactly. Labeling their critics as salty pirates and dismissing them out of hand shows how disingenuous they are...

Though that's to be expected considering they cherrypicked the hell out of the study they were referencing, then criticised it because the authors dared to suggest that Denuvo was only important for the first couple of months of a game's lifespan

What do you expect from RPS, Kotaku, IGN, and the rest of the games "journalists"? Journalistic integrity?

That would require an actual journalism degree.

THAT was the one part I think is a worthwhile point though.

Anyone reading anything on the internet should have some suspicion towards profit motivations, both for companies and for everyone else. It makes sense that if someone is a pirate annoyed at the need to pay for uncrackable games, they’d have something to gain from disparaging Denuvo past what’s truthful.

We’re in a world where racists have now hidden their agendas behind “I’m just against needless DEI in games” every time there’s a non-white protagonist, and people already have to filter that all out. That’s not saying everyone with a certain message is automatically lying (I will admit, I have my own bias too), just that it’s worth looking at the merit of their argument.

Also the Denuvo dude referencing a study and using it to show why companies need Denuvo and then walking it back and saying he doesn’t trust the study because it also shows that after 3 months it’s useless was honestly just kind of funny.

lmao

The code is there, yes, but it's skipped entirely, so the binary size stays the same, but it's faster because it skips parts. The big brain on the person that wrote that must also tell him that skipping a scene on a movie means the movie takes the same time because it's the entirety of the movie plus the skipping of the scene.

Even though I think the Denuvo criticism is often poorly founded, I completely agree his quote there was terribly formed. I can only imagine some of his engineers shaking their head at that interview going “That’s not how code works…”

This quote gives confirmation he is indeed a Project Manager.

I just read that Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has apparently said it's gonna use Denuvo. It's the first time a game that's been on my radar has used it to my knowledge. I saw some comments where people said they'll just wait a year until it's removed and then buy it. Fuck that. You screw me over at release and I'll just pirate it. I still haven't finished the first game so waiting until it's cracked is no issue.

Yep. The only reason i pirate games these days is because they dont offer a demo. After a few hours of playing a pirated game i either buy it or uninstall it. If they offered decent demos i wouldnt pirate at all

It might also be just too expensive for some people. They wouldn't buy it anyway.

Agreed. The whole reason I used to pirate was because I was gifted a game I really wanted for Christmas, and it wouldn't run. I had the specs required, but the graphics card had a known problem with the game that the devs decided wasn't popular enough to deem fixing.

These days my main platform is fantastic with refunds if something doesn't work, so I've little need to pirate.

The whole thing is full of that kind of "drink their own kool-aid" propagandist thinking. It's wild they expect anyone to take them seriously here.

I'd be all in favor of regional pricing so that people can buy games based on "price of bread" economics, but key resellers and VPN users ruined that approach.

I imagine it must feel pretty good if you are a soulless greedy asshole without any morals to sell a useless product and still get paid for it.

Very common misconception; they’re really only aiming to block pirates in the first few weeks of release, when they lose the most sales to pirates. Quite often, that happens just as planned.

If you wanted to argue, we can shortcut the logic: If this stuff never worked, there’s no way publishers would pay for its license. It’s sure as hell not free.

The reason why DMR tends to get cracked is that the concept is inherently flawed. If the entire game runs on your machine, then everything needed to run the game has to be on your machine at some point. DMR is security by obscurity.

Denothanks