What a shitload of fuck

[kane_magus]

So, apparently, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider on PC were patched to remove Denuvo (even though the Steam pages for both still currently have the Denuvo label right there)... only for the Denuvo to be replaced with "Epic Online Services," whatever the fuck that is, which apparently requires you to create an account with Epic (even if you bought it through Steam) if you want to play them now. In other words, Square Enix simply traded one flavor of rancid diarrhea for another.

Both Rise and Shadow pretty much would have been almost no-brainer purchases for me, honestly, had Square Enix just not opted to infest them with all this worse-than-useless third party DRM horseshit.

Worse than that, though, they apparently tried/are trying to shoehorn that same Epic Online Services dumbfuckery into the original (remake) Tomb Raider game as well, after the fact. I.e. the only one of the games that I actually own on Steam myself, due to having not bought the two sequels because of the Denuvo malware.

Seriously, Square Enix can eat a truckload of shit at this point, for all I care about them anymore. And Denuvo and Epic can eat truckloads of shit simply for existing, to boot.

(Not going to bother providing links for any of that, but it's easy enough to Google.)

Comments

[owsf2000]

That's the 3rd party account requirement shit I was ranting about recently. First time I've seen them ADD it after the fact though. Personally a company doing that to me would find the entire library of games they've released going forward being shitlisted - I'd treat it no different as a company adding 3rd party drm after I bought a game.