““I think it’s super hard for a gamer,” Ullmann tells Rock Paper Shotgun. “I’m a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I’m talking about. I think it’s super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit for me that a certain game developer, game publisher, is using our anti-piracy services.” This gap, coupled with the fact that Denuvo “simply works” and “pirates cannot play games” which use it, as Ullmann puts it, are two main contributors to its negative reputation, he argues.”

Let’s not forget about being always-online or not being able to test different wine/Proton setups for fear of activating the DRM. Or even trying simply to run the game in some situations…

  • youmaynotknow
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    3310 hours ago

    I’m a gamer, therfore I know what I’m talking about. Denuvo is SHIT!

  • madjo
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    2913 hours ago

    Boohoo, Denuvo, cry me a fudging river!

  • @[email protected]
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    “I’m a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I’m talking about”

    Should we call it a fallacious call to authority, meme on it for being a “how do you do, fellow gamers” moment, or simply mock the guy for whoring himself out in favor of daddy corporate? I could write an essay on the ways this is an absurd statement.

    Gamers hate Denuvo because it doesn’t “simply work”. It limits paying customers from accessing their content, bogs down mid-range machines that are already overtaxxed by poor optimization and, in admittedly uncommon cases, full on breaks some games until patches and fixes roll out. Stop pretending that “gamers” are out here rioting because they’re too cheap and immoral to pay for content. Quit your fuckin’ lying.

  • 100
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    2917 hours ago

    only good thing about their drm its so expensive very few companies will pay a subscription to keep it active forever

    • @[email protected]
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      2217 hours ago

      Let’s not be too hasty to call it garbage when it could in fact turn out to be rancid dog shit.

  • kbal
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    Well, he’s not wrong that it’s “super hard” to see any benefit of Denuvo for anyone other than the beneficial owners of Denuvo Software Solutions. Gamers might have a better than average ability to suspend disbelief, but that “new study” was pushing it a bit far.

  • @[email protected]
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    1517 hours ago

    Well then just stop and we stop. Fuxk them, denuvogames won’t be bought, glad steam is marking those games.

    • Draconic NEO
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      814 hours ago

      Denuvo Games Curator Gives a great and clear indicator so there’s no way you could possibly buy one by accident, like the trolls keep trying to argue will happen.

  • @[email protected]
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    1417 hours ago

    We should totally just go along with DRM, or they might decide to break other stuff. This is totally an innocent request, and far from attempted extortion.

    /s