I rebuy games on GoG to vote with my money that GoG’s no DRM policy is great. Your money is what companies really care about so voting with your wallet and buying no DRM games and shunning DRM laden games is a very good practice.

I refuse to buy games with obstructive amounts of DRM (as in using every anti-piracy measure possible). Not to mention including literally every DRM tech into your game will make it run like garbage and require a hardware locked, hardware token, online activation, serial key, always online checks, cloud based, some…

Yes, Steam DRM is not the same thing as Steam itself and developers certainly can have totally DRM free games on Steam that lack even the steam DRM module. These can be found if you can launch the game without steam running.

Wait so in the last thread you said that it has no impact and now your not surprised about it having at least a minor effect on performance. As a paying customer a very minor to major effect on performance is unacceptable for what amounts to useless bloat.

Denuvo does use a separate online activation. It also uses rotating encryption keys so that if you don’t activate the protected component is rendered useless and the game will very likely crash or not even launch. Bypasses in the past existed to trick it into thinking steam DRM was happy but they added their own…

This is patently false. Just with the other question. All we know is it’s nonzero. You won’t buy a game because of DRM, but you have absolutely zero information to back up how many other people think like you. All you have is a vocal segment of the internet with zero indicator of how strongly that vocal subset…

Perceptible means that normal average people wouldn’t notice but if you instrumented it a objective test could detect it. Perception is not objective especially for humans and is clearly a marketing wank statement to hide the fact there is a performance impact.

Really smart people can also be really stupid and no one is smart at everything. Steve Jobs was an market leader in tech who was stupid in medicine and very likely died from that stupidity.

But your statement about being 100% incorrect is 100% incorrect as both of you where referring to numbers and the core bit is that it isn’t statistically known how much so saying many, significant, all is wrong.

Denuvo is evil DRM. Steam is DRM lite. GoG is the best.

What you should have said is some unknown amount of pirates may have been customers but it isn’t a known quantity. What is a known quantity is paid customers not liking a game’s DRM in their reviews. Or a game with a poorly integrated invasive DRM running like garbage and getting poor reviews. Then there is the fact…

Don’t forget there is the inverse I refuse to buy games with DRM and will actively support no DRM companies. Having DRM leads to lost sales especially if poorly implemented. Denuvo is an instant no buy from me and if you care about long term game longevity you should never buy such anti-tamper DRM garbage as the game…

I dunno your the one that seems to be extrapolating to support your own agenda which is exactly what the problem is here.

What is this BS. DRM is something a game does not need and if it has any performance impact perceptible or not it is still unnecessary bloat for legal legitimate customers. Ragdoll physics is part of a game and is a useful addition. DRM serves no value add gameplay or graphical function.

1) It is not flat out false. Your opinion is that it is false when I highly doubt your evidence.

Denovo’s own FAQ specifically says it has “no perceptible effect on game performance” which literally means it does have an measurable statistical impact on game performance but the developer is supposed mitigate the performance impact but putting it in “non-critical game functions”. These functions must still be…

I refunded JC3 because of the performance problems and when I tried to trace the problem using standard windows performance kernel analysis tools to see why the program was stalling my entire system would crash and the dump file was somehow erased probably due to the way the system BSODed as a kernel memory corruption…

Denovo is a custom per game DRM so it very much can directly impact the way the game runs and it could be poorly designed DRM depending on the variant. It requires extensive integration work from both teams and that takes time and money away from actual development. Poorly implemented Denovo makes games run like…

I’m not really believing your distinction between many and significant. As a buyer of legitimate games from GoG preferably I certainly do believe in the fuck all DRM position and will not ever buy a game with intrusive restrictive DRM like Denovo. I especially look dimly on marketing spin like calling their obviously…

Just read the Denuvo FAQ they say it doesn’t “constantly write to the drive” which does imply that it does in fact write periodically otherwise they would say it never writes to the drive after activation.