• @Boiglenoight
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    569 months ago

    I was considering buying this but no longer. Game might be good but vote with your wallet to signal intolerance for greedy business practices.

    • @misterwu
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      9 months ago

      Arrr 🏴‍☠️

      • @Sabin10
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        49 months ago

        Denuvo makes that pretty unlikely and people on steam are saying that characters are stored server side so I don’t know how that will affect piracy attempts even if denuvo is cracked.

        • @Shadowedcross
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          139 months ago

          Denuvo doesn’t make it impossible, it just makes it take longer, dependant on the interest of the crackers. The main need to be online comes from the initial Denuvo validation and for the ability to use others’ pawns. Being offline means you’ll just have to use generated pawns.

          • @Sabin10
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            29 months ago

            The only cracker that works on denuvo games hasn’t done a release in over 10 months. At this point it’s a matter of if/when the developer removes denuvo because there is no one cracking it right now.

        • @Zehzin
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          49 months ago

          I don’t have the game but I assume “characters stored server side” means other people’s pawns like in the original where you could browse through people’s weird sidekicks and recruit them to your party. Not even Monster Hunter stores characters server side, it would be a weird shift to do it now.

          • @Sabin10
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            19 months ago

            From what I have picked up reading steam reviews, starting a new character is an MTX so they enforce that by storing your character on their servers. Others are saying you can get around that by deleting a specific folder but it’s still really shitty.

        • @[email protected]
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          09 months ago

          Denuvo can be cracked in as early as week after release. It all just depends if people care about the game enough.

          • @Sabin10
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            9 months ago

            There is one person cracking denuvo, they haven’t done a release in 10 months and when they were active they were doing them by request for a $500 “donation”. It has never been about how much people care about a game. The other titles that had releases early on were because devs occasionally mess up and push out updates that don’t have denuvo applied, not because anyone was cracking denuvo.

    • @Blank
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, I’ll just pirate it.

      I only pay for games that aren’t kneeling at the alter of enshitification.

    • @AgentGrimstone
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      119 months ago

      Yeah this whole thing may seem minor to some people but that’s what companies want you to feel. They’ll slowly slip in these greedy practices until it becomes the norm. Not long ago, Yakuza made New Game+ a paid DLC. What’s next? Paid save slots? Paid difficulty settings? I wouldn’t be surpised if that’s where we end up in a few years and we start posting “Remember when [X] was a standard feature in games?” memes.

      • @Boiglenoight
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        119 months ago

        “What can we get away with?” 👈 Capitalism

      • @BrotherL0v3
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        69 months ago

        Yeah this whole thing may seem minor to some people but that’s what companies want you to feel.

        Remember when Oblivion’s horse armor DLC was considered outrageous? $2 for an in-game cosmetic is hardly a blip on the radar now

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        49 months ago

        Yeah this whole thing may seem minor to some people but that’s what companies want you to feel. They’ll slowly slip in these greedy practices until it becomes the norm.

        This is why it’s so important to push back on this crap.

        Don’t buy these kind of games, and never pre-order any game.

        And don’t listen to the shills/astroturfers telling you otherwise.