Denuvo and my Steam Wishlist

[kane_magus]

I've combed through my Steam Wishlist and deleted every game that Steam claims contains Denuvo.

Here is the list of games that I have removed from my Steam Wishlist (in the order they had been on the list [EDIT 3] Also reformatted into a proper unordered list now. [/EDIT 3]):

• Dragon Quest XI
• Rise of the Tomb Raider (EDIT 3) Not sure about this one or the one below, because supposedly the Denuvo has been removed [to be replaced with the just as terrible "Epic Online Services" or whatever the fuck], but the Steam store page still shows the Denuvo warning for both, so I'm still not going to strikethrough these yet. (/EDIT 3)
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (EDIT 3) See line above. (/EDIT 3)
• Nier Automata
• Tales of Berseria
• Far Cry Primal
• Far Cry 5
• Monster Hunter World (Not sure why this one was still on there, since I knew it had Denuvo long ago. [EDIT 2] Oh, and hey, they finally took the malware out of it. [/EDIT 2])
• Star Ocean - The Last Hope
• Injustice 2
• Mortal Kombat 11
• Final Fantasy XV
• Jurassic World Evolution (EDIT 3) See also the sequel. (/EDIT 3)
• Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Not sure why this one was still on there, since I knew it had Denuvo long ago.)
• Borderlands 3
• Resident Evil 3
• Marvel's Avengers
• Death Stranding (EDIT 3) Though I've since had other problems with this game, even if they did wise up and remove the malware. Just to note, this is the first game on this list that I've bought since the strikethrough was added, even though I still can't play it, for the above-mentioned reasons. (/EDIT 3)
• Drone Swarm

(EDIT) I will go back occasionally and put a strikethrough on the games on this list that I've noticed have removed the malware. That said, it's still not very likely that I'll ever buy any of these games, regardless. At most, I may re-add them to my wishlist and maybe buy them if I ever see them on some ridiculous <$10 sale, possibly. (/EDIT)

Most of those are like, meh, whatever... but a few of those were games I had been really looking forward to, so it stung a bit to have to remove them.

This list does not include games that I had already previously removed or had never added in the first place (or, rather, had added only very briefly before immediately removing again).

This also doesn't (yet) include any potential games that contain/will contain Denuvo but for which the developer/publisher are hoping to hide that fact by not listing it on the Steam page.

Comments

[kane_magus]

The only ones of those I might accept these days are the ones that are kind of already grandfathered in because I already have those services for other reasons anyway, like Xbox Live (even though I no longer own a Microsoft console), Origin, UPlay, etc. But even then, I'm not going to like it very much if a game on Steam requires those (and, in fact, didn't, for the rare few that I have bought in the past). It wouldn't be a dealbreaker, but it would certainly be a deal-"bent nearly in half"-er. And if I was going to buy an Origin game anyway, I'd just... buy it on Origin (which is likely EA's shitty reasoning behind requiring an Origin login for their games on Steam anyway).

If a game on Steam requires me to sign up for some new service like that that I don't already have an account for, then no, they can fuck off entirely.

I'm kind of preemptively waiting to get pissed off over games that were exclusive to Epic Games Store coming out on Steam but still requiring an Epic Games Store login. That's what would seriously gripe my asshole, just on general principles, because fuck Epic Games Store forever, but especially if it was a game that I still even remotely cared about (e.g. Shenmue III). It hasn't happened yet, as far as I'm aware, but I feel like it's only a matter of time.