Denuvo strikes again!
If it doesn’t exist on GOG, it doesn’t exist. Life is good.
Honestly, Denuvo makes me want to sail the high seas. When I browse Steam and see Denuvo, I mentally write off the game, saying “Might buy this in a couple of years if they fix this shit.” If the company fails to do so, the game becomes valid to pirate, far as I am personally concerned.
I am not paying money to be rootkitted.
The stupid part is it doesnt even work. Denuvo games are cracked just like any other. Pretty sure Hogwarts legacy was cracked day 1 as a fuck you to jk Rowling.
Hogwarts Legacy was literally the last Denuvo game to get a crack. Otherwise you just wait until the denuvo license expires, then get it.
Sometimes i pirate games I’ve bought so I don’t have to deal with this nonsense. Like titanfall.
Honestly, I’ve been pirating games that I own on Steam for awhile now.
It’s so fucking annoying to launch a game on Steam, only to have to sit through some update that didn’t get triggered for some stupid reason.
I know it’s not steam but by god Minecraft Bedrock drives me mad. Everytime I try to play it needs to update. And if you don’t update you can’t play online…
(I know Java exists, but it doesn’t let me easily play with a switch player)
“Might buy this in a couple of years if they fix this shit.”
Why wait? Pirate today.
Because early Denuvo cracks tend to not work correctly, and often require you to do stupid shit like set your OS’s year to 2015 or something like that just for the game to boot.
I rather just wait a year or two for either a proper crack, or for the developer to decide to remove the DRM themselves, a la Capcom. Especially it’s a single player game, cause there’s no need to worry about the player population dying down by the time a crack comes out. And you also get to reap the benefits of having bugfixes available since the game has been out for awhile.
That would certainly make me request a refund and just pirate the game.
There are no groups currently cracking Denuvo.
There are several individuals though. Fitgirl and Empress come to mind.
I think Empress is too busy ranting about trans people to crack games anymore
Yeah I think Empress got caught \ found by police? Or maybe that was just them being a little internet shit whining about “betrayals” 🤷
I followed her telegram for a while then it became too cringe
Is anything worth cracking? GTA 6 will be. But what has come out recently is worth the effort?
In that case, request a refund and just forget about the game. It’s that little bit worse for the publisher who chose Denuvo.
Just ignore all games that have Denuvo. It’s actually working I don’t see much good games with denuvo lately.
I genuinely wish nothing but the worst for Denuvo. Scum of the earth. DRM sucks, I do my best to avoid games with Denuvo.
Steam deck is a thing now.
Whine at the developer and Valve. They will whine at Denuvo. Chances are it’s something Denuvo haven’t checked for and can fix quite easily.
Especially on a “Steam Deck Verified” game.
Remember kids, complain to the publisher and developer. They are the ones paying for Denuvo and you are the ones paying for the game.
If you are paying for a game with Denuvo then you are paying for Denuvo. Don’t buy games with invasive software in them you don’t want invasive software 🤷♀️ Sure, complain to the developer and the publisher, but you give them the money to waste on Denuvo if you buy the game
Do both. Don’t buy it and tell the publisher you’ll buy it when they remove denuvo.
It’s always the paying customers, who get absolutely shafted. Wouldn’t be any other way, in modern society
Same with modern streaming services, you get awful resolutions on linux without them even telling you when you are a paying customer.
But the pirates get the full quality version no issue.
Pirates never had Sony install a rootkit on their computer. Paying customers did, though.
Pirate here, can confirm.
Playing the new God of War was great on Linux, though.
This problem is solved by not giving money to devs who use denuvo. If you gotta resort to malware to sell your game, it’s not worth playing.
How do I know which do? (Genuine question.)
nice, I have some games that use denuvo in my wishlist: I’ll make sure to kick them from there.
and for anyone wondering, this profile seems to track games using it:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26095454-Denuvo-Games/
Should every game be forced to support your chosen platform? I don’t see Mac users acting like this.
This isn’t even a platform issue per se, windows user complain just as much about denuvo, allbeit for different reasons.
They do, but this is a compatibility problem first and foremost. And as a Mac user since the 90s, that’s glaringly obvious to me.
It sucks that DRM is the wrench in the gears of Proton. But the game doesn’t have official support.
Did you even read the article? This is a matter of limiting the number of times a licensed user can authenticate their copy of the game within a day (based on hardware/software IDs).
It has nothing to do with OS compatibility. It can be recreated on windows machines by spoofing hardware IDs or even - god forbid - changing certain driver installs too many times.
It’s to stop pirates from using one a legit activation ‘key’ to provide the game to others. Which is funny because they’ve found a way to extract the denuvo ‘key’ from a demo and spoof full game denuvo access for other games.
denuvo can suck my balls
