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.
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.
That’s also a lie. There is no way it would be impossible to remove the protection code (or parts of it) or make it not execute. That alone makes him a clown.
Not to mention that some of the cracks are incredibly lightweight in the first place so even disabling a small amount of their code would improve things. Removing the encryption mechanisms alone works wonders.
There he is.
The only positive thing is that they are SUCH GREEDY FUCKS that companies often patch out the protection after release to stop paying them.
God, hard to read more than half of it, this guy’s a total idiot. He really thinks he sells a solution, fucking wake up off that dream. It was nice, you enjoyed it, now wake up, go do something else, or just take the money and retire, idk, idc.
Fuck DRM, what a shitty way of screwing up content.
What makes you think he’s an idiot as opposed to lying through his teeth?
- ‘It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it’
As a gamer, I know that gamers don’t actually know a fucking thing except how to play games.
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 is ridiculous. I love Monster Hunter, but if that happened to me I would instantly refund the game.
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.
That’s ridiculous, I really hope developers avoid it as the plague more and more.
