From press, rumours and hearsay iirc the cost of Denuvo is very significant BUT they have lots of clauses in the contracts regarding effectiveness targets and such. If I remember right, how quickly the game is cracked directly effects how much you pay, so I think it would be safe to guess that there’s some last minute…

My setup is such that I run so many different games from so many different launchers and stores, all from my couch but really on my PC through Nvidia GameStream on my Shield TV… 🙇🏻

As a tech enthusiast, tinkerer and avid PC gamer: YES.

I understand, and they have tolerated it on a surface level. But when you look at the minutiae of it; the obfuscation of code, using proprietary formats and tools that are considered trade secrets, there are some companies that started out having no clue about how to be open and supportive of a community, but get…

I guess, mostly because therein lies the biggest issue. Most politicians go on to become lobbyists for these corporations, taking them nicely into their cushy retirement, and that’s only when they’re admitting it. Let’s face it, they’re doing that from day one. They don’t get into politics to make a difference, those…

In another comment I made, I argued for precisely the same.

Bugs/glitches aside, the mode itself is fundamentally broken. I tried it again last year, after giving up on it when it originally released, and… it hasn’t changed one bit. Turn off friendly mode and you’ll spend the next few hours being killed by, and futilely trying to kill, a guy in his attack chopper with homing…

I would argue that without mods, especially when it comes to multiplayer (role-play enabling especially), GTA V wouldn’t have been quite the cash cow it now most definitely is. GTA Online is a pointless grind-fest, that fails miserably should you turn off friendly-mode.

It’s worth remembering as well, that just as many individuals use it for various nefarious reasons, be it quelling dissenting opinions, fair use encroachment, trolling, or even just a quick way to get cash from YouTube.

Having just been through the process of getting GTA IV up and running and looking up to modern standards and then having moved on to Red Dead Redemption 2; comparing the layouts, file formats and ever increasing obfuscation of code and assets etc, I cannot see remakes being anything other than a quick and easy…

Yeah, DMCA was literally contrived to strangle creativity and fair use protections. This world is run by the very people it protects and serves, whilst being funded by the ones it doesn’t. This won’t ever change. We only have hope of subverting and undermining it. Only guerrilla tactics work on these fat cats.

Code-wise you couldn’t be more wrong. I’m not sure what’s been more successful at obfuscation, their actual intentional attempts to do so or the fact that they cannot seem to string a competent line of code together to save their lives. These games are held together by various bodily fluids and not much else.

That was my guess. But you never know with these lovely people, they might just be doing it for the shits and giggles. Plus, remakes are not a license to print money in comparison to GTA Online, so I’m not sure they’d stoop so low any longer.

My thoughts exactly. But they’re lazy and scummy enough to not bother and still do this regardless.

Well, I assume the others were all taking one.

It won’t even begin to offset the tax rebates they get.

Clearly, Kinja is intentionally becoming more and more incapable of holding an intelligent conversation.

Avast, me hearties!

Is it really that expensive?

We’ll always have Paris… I mean pirates.