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

[owsf2000]

This is probably one of the reasons why I never buy games from big publishers on steam - they're the biggest users of that shit.

Additionally, whenever I go through a queue of recommendations I quickly check to see if the game uses any kind of 3rd party drm. If it does, I instantly mark it as ignore - even if I had no interest whatsoever in the game.