Seems like it requires the game to be cracked as the general theme so even if you don’t pirate having games cracked benefits you indirectly.

Depends Denuvo require the game developer to carefully integrate the DRM into the core game loop to prevent it from being bypassed. This has to be done to use only non-latency sensitive code otherwise it will severely hamper performance. This is likely why some Denuvo protected games run like garbage because the…

I’d buy the DRM free outlet key from a graymarket to punish such behaviour. I would have bought it retail at release but not when they use such intrusive DRM.

Not to mention its a good reason to keep cracking their DRM so that it gets removed eventually so that paying customers are not saddled with a ticking timebomb.

I doubt they guarantee a removal window and if the developer/drm company goes belly up before any undefined removal then your screwed.

Sounds more like marketing spin than making sense why wait to say this before all the rumours from industry sources revealed likely NDA contract information. More likely just to tow the line that its a benefit to companies when in reality its anti-consumer and costs companies a lot of money for protection that never…

They also went from being anti-tamper DRM only to now 5 activations a day online required DRM because people figured out how to bypass their anti-tamper protections pretty quickly.

Also because they used such intrusive DRM I decided not to buy it on day one and will one day buy it from a graymarket seller at a heavy discount. This is a lost sale essentially to them as I’m likely buying a free promotional key.

Nope not for me at least at best they are going to get a graymarket heavily discounted sale from me when I would have purchased the game day one at full retail.

It is obviously just spin to keep the negative press from affecting them. I would not put much trust in their words since it is to their monetary benefit to hide a hidden refund policy as that would paint a target on themselves if they ever admitted to it.

The demo being cracked was how the bypass of the full game worked by tricking it into thinking it had valid authentication keys. This is why they now require online activation for not only Steam DRM but Denuvo Anti-tamper+Online Activation which has rotating keys to prevent such bypasses. So much for anti-tamper…

If you work in a cleanroom you may have heard that it is preferable you shower at night as you actually shed more skin/particles after showering and in a cleanroom workspace you don’t want tons of shedding from people showering right before work.

Not CDPR that crept the online requirements that can be solely placed on No Man’s Sky developer.

This assumes pirates would actually buy a game which is an pretty huge assumption. Most of the time they are not very interested in the game or have no money which means if they have to pay full price they are unlikely to buy.

GoG exists because there is a large enough audience for DRM-free content.

Sort of encrypted. It buried deep down on purpose but it isn’t actually that hard to dig it out of said encrypted container. Unlike Denuvo Microsoft doesn’t go the extra mile and add a complete ground up assembly virtual machine to protect their encryption functions.

Not sure what are you talking about no one really uses windows 10 store for gaming not only because of its intrusive DRM but tons of other garbage no one wants from Microsoft. I don’t even touch the windows 10 store for games and I doubt it is very popular relative to Steam or even GoG. People even rag on the entire…

Decent chance doesn’t mean its black market. Its perfectly legal to buy a gray market product.

Depends Denuvo also introduces a security blindspot (anti-tamper also means no automatic anti-virus checks work on it) that will eventually be exploited and could easily blow up in their faces. All it takes is time and game developers are not exactly the best at supporting old games with security patches.

Well the solution is obviously to be vocal about it and steam is at least pointing out that Denuvo DRM also includes online activation limits. This is because one of the easiest bypasses found was to just share the legit activation key and that would bypass their entire ultra-expensive anti-tamper system. So now they…