The only positive thing is that they are SUCH GREEDY FUCKS that companies often patch out the protection after release to stop paying them.
Denuvo profits off game developers fears of their game not being well received by gamers for reasons such as performance issues, bugs, or at its foundation is just a mediocre game.
I like to believe that the narrative that piracy hurt sales is only true for medicore/bad games because the average pirate is broke and they are not going to buy your game just because of denuvo and those who can afford to buy will choose not to after getting to try it.
On the other hand good games will always be commerical successful with or without denuvo.
Because as we all know, being a gamer means you can’t also be a fucking moron.
… Wait.
One experience with other people on Xbox Live voice chat can disprove that.
I bet he plays like it’s Call Of Duty in multiplayer games which require team cooperation.
“Denuvo manager also stated that he slept with all the moms of their product’s detractors, and that they were ‘ezee’”
Grifter attempting to explain his existence…
Personally, I’m okay with Denuvo and other similar DRM when it’s used for the intended purpose - to prevent launch day hype piracy. The first few weeks/months are crucial for sales, and I can understand why developers do it.
But after that, especially after the game is cracked, remove the fucking DRM, it did what it could and is now useless, and only makes the experience of legitimate customers worse.
Hello, fellow kids
Just stoooooop FUCKING T A L K I N G
Is this a business entity wearing the skin of a human, or a clown wearing the skin of a business?
Arrogant cunt. Fuck you and your shitty “product”.
Unlikeable asshole entity tries even harder to get people to like them. Results are mixed
As a gamer, I know that gamers don’t actually know a fucking thing except how to play games.
The cracks, they don’t remove our protection. The cracks still have all our code in and all our code is executed. There is even more code on top of the cracked code - that is executing on top of our code, and causing even more stuff to be executed. So there is technically no way that the cracked version is faster than the uncracked version. That’s simply a technical fact.
Going by that logic, there’s simply no way that Denuvo does not hinder performance.
Sounds like a CEO who doesn’t have a damn clue how code works. His description sounds like he thinks every line of code takes the same amount of time to execute, as if
x = 1;takes as long as calling an encryption/decryption function.“Adding” code to bypass your encryption is obviously going to make things run way faster.
RPS: The study you mention showed that having Denuvo software improves revenues at launch, but also showed that a certain point after release - I think it was around three months - it evens out. Do you think publishers should have a policy of eventually removing Denuvo and making that clear to players in their marketing?
Andreas Ullmann: That’s the only point of the study where I’m not totally agreeing.
Well, who would have thunk!
I don’t care what he says, I will never buy a game with Denuvo.
That’s easy, I never buy games at launch or in the first few years after release!
Same for me. Denvo killed me enjoyment of monster hunter world. Locked me out of the game when I tried playing it after a long break from the game. Being told I have to wait 24 hours before attempting to play a game I paid for was a quick way to get me to not want to buy any denuvo game.
That’s ridiculous, I really hope developers avoid it as the plague more and more.
It’s really a shame, because I was super excited for MH:Wilds, but the confirmation that it will include Denuvo killed my enthusiasm completely.
At least Capcom eventually removes denuvo from their games. I’ll probably wait until that happens to play Wilds.
