Yeah, it's showing the Denuvo malware warning on the game's page for me now, as well. So, indeed, as I expected would be the case, this is just yet another example of Steam and/or the devs/pubs of a game being shifty (and shitty) and hiding the fact that their game was infested with this shit prior to releasing it and also prior to opening it up for pre-purchase, of course. As such, I guess "Frontier Developments" will be added to my growing list of "never buy" developers/publishers, as well as this whole situation further reinforcing my default stance on buying games (or not buying games, in this case).
Also, dumbshit asshats like this are why the modern video game industry is in such a piss-poor state now. Even if a lot of people are justifiably and rightly cautious and negative against all the bullshit being excreted by the game industry these days, the developers and publishers know full well that they don't actually have to ever worry about those people, because they can always count on there being more than enough gullible, disingenuous, willfully ignorant buffoons like the above who have their lips surgically attached to the sewer pipe to make up for it.
And then, yet again, a mod came in and locked the thread, after making the utterly asinine claim of "This thread clearly started with good intentions but as with any Denuvo themed thread they always devolve into chaos." I.e. the OP made a post dicksucking the game and the decision of the dev/pub (one and the same in this case, apparently) to infect it with malware and shittalking anyone who would dare to not dicksuck the game in a similar manner ("good intentions"), lots of other people showed up to join in said dicksucking and shittalking (more "good intentions," I guess), and all of that was apparently just fine and dandy with the mod, but then a couple of more actually level-headed people came in and tried to argue against the OP's patently absurd suggestion that everyone should just be complacent and accepting of all the dumbfuckery that the modern video game industry churns out on a regular basis these days, which is when the thread started to "devolve into chaos" and required a "nip in the bud," I guess, because lawdy we can't have actual facts and levelheadedness being inserted into and interrupting a good circlejerk, now can we.
On a more broadly related issue, in addition to the whole "Denuvo servers fucked off for a few hours, rendering games infected with their dogshit unplayable during that time" thing that you noted, there's the whole Alder Lake thing, too. In short, a new CPU came out and Denuvo was incompatible with it, making those games unplayable for people who bought that CPU. So this case of some CPUs being too new for Denuvo, combined with the fact that there also were (still are?) cases where people had CPUs that were too old to support Denuvo, perhaps should suggest that maybe, just maybe, it's Denvuo that is the problem here. Denuvo is the common element in all of those situations.
Seriously, Denuvo needs to fucking die forever, and anything like Denuvo that might come into existence in the future needs to be smothered in the cradle (or perhaps "nipped in the bud"). And everyone who foolishly, blithely supports this horseshit needs to be afflicted with constant, chronic, explosive diarrhea until they come to their senses and stop supporting such badware.
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Date: 2021-11-09 03:52 pm (UTC)From:Also, dumbshit asshats like this are why the modern video game industry is in such a piss-poor state now. Even if a lot of people are justifiably and rightly cautious and negative against all the bullshit being excreted by the game industry these days, the developers and publishers know full well that they don't actually have to ever worry about those people, because they can always count on there being more than enough gullible, disingenuous, willfully ignorant buffoons like the above who have their lips surgically attached to the sewer pipe to make up for it.
And then, yet again, a mod came in and locked the thread, after making the utterly asinine claim of "This thread clearly started with good intentions but as with any Denuvo themed thread they always devolve into chaos." I.e. the OP made a post dicksucking the game and the decision of the dev/pub (one and the same in this case, apparently) to infect it with malware and shittalking anyone who would dare to not dicksuck the game in a similar manner ("good intentions"), lots of other people showed up to join in said dicksucking and shittalking (more "good intentions," I guess), and all of that was apparently just fine and dandy with the mod, but then a couple of more actually level-headed people came in and tried to argue against the OP's patently absurd suggestion that everyone should just be complacent and accepting of all the dumbfuckery that the modern video game industry churns out on a regular basis these days, which is when the thread started to "devolve into chaos" and required a "nip in the bud," I guess, because lawdy we can't have actual facts and levelheadedness being inserted into and interrupting a good circlejerk, now can we.
On a more broadly related issue, in addition to the whole "Denuvo servers fucked off for a few hours, rendering games infected with their dogshit unplayable during that time" thing that you noted, there's the whole Alder Lake thing, too. In short, a new CPU came out and Denuvo was incompatible with it, making those games unplayable for people who bought that CPU. So this case of some CPUs being too new for Denuvo, combined with the fact that there also were (still are?) cases where people had CPUs that were too old to support Denuvo, perhaps should suggest that maybe, just maybe, it's Denvuo that is the problem here. Denuvo is the common element in all of those situations.
Seriously, Denuvo needs to fucking die forever, and anything like Denuvo that might come into existence in the future needs to be smothered in the cradle (or perhaps "nipped in the bud"). And everyone who foolishly, blithely supports this horseshit needs to be afflicted with constant, chronic, explosive diarrhea until they come to their senses and stop supporting such badware.