Cool. We still don’t want you.

The way I see it, it’s like if someone barged into my house and settled behind my ficus tree, telling me that I won’t notice them in my daily life. I don’t care how actually inconspicuous they are, I don’t want intruders under my roof period.

Denuvo is a cancer on the gaming world, full stop.

I see Denuvo, I don’t buy.

Simple.

It’s not always about the performance impact…DRM has been known to restrict and prevent legitimate gamers from playing the games meanwhile those that sail the high seas ignore the useless DRM and continue to play.

If a game I want to purchase has Denuvo, I just move on. It shows me that the game publisher doesn’t care as much about their users as they do their own profit. Plus, I also could just play another game that I already have.

If a game I think I’m interested in has Denuvo attached to it, it’s an immediate pass. It just reminds me that there is is a back-catalog of games I could play on emulators, too. No sign ups. No always-online. No tracking me. So I end up reaching for one of those. It’s almost quaint to think something can be enjoyed privately.

The last game I bought with Denuvo was Doom Eternal, and as a separate matter it still harasses me to this day to create a Bethesda account (I have to switch Steam to offline mode to bypass that). It still has that stupid DRM on it after all these years. What a waste.

In our chat, Huin implied that this kind of public analysis was not very useful because “gamers [almost] never get access to the same version of [a game] protected and unprotected. There might be over the lifetime of the game a protected and unprotected version, but these are not comparable because these are different builds over six months, many bug fixes, etc., which could make it better or worse.”

So they are literally trying to say that Denuvo isn’t the cause of performance slowdowns, because patches to the game since the version that got cracked made the game that much slower?

I wouldn’t say that it’s evil, but rather it doesn’t exist for the benefit of players, it exists for the benefit of corporations. They know that it hurts performance in games and prevents a lot of people from playing games that they’ve legitimately purchased, but so long as it’s preventing some piracy they do not care.

You can’t. Don’t touch my kernal, scary man.

Yea… sorry, I don’t believe in installing root-kits for playing games.

Especially, when most of the games I play are either single player, or co-op only.

There’s so many games I haven’t bought simply because they used/ implemented Denuvo. I see Denuvo and it’s an instant lost sale/nonbuy.

Of course it won’t show that. Because they’ll be cherry picked to not show that.