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(EDIT) Yep, it has Denuvo. The warning showed up on the page, but only after it was released. (/EDIT)
So, I saw Jurassic World Evolution 2 showing up in my Steam recommendations and shit. Apparently, it is going to release tomorrow. Since the first game had (and still has) Denuvo, I went to the store page to see if the second one is also infected with that malware. The store page currently does not show the Denuvo malware warning. I was skeptical, even so, because this is not the first time Steam and/or the developers of a game had hidden the Denuvo status on a pre-release game (or even on games that were released long ago, for that matter). When I went into the forums and saw that threads that mention Denuvo are being locked (whether they talk about piracy or not), that pretty much sealed it for me. I wouldn't have been buying this game regardless, because I don't trust the developers/publishers of this game to not have tainted their game with that shit, given that they have apparently done so with most of the other games they've released, so it's neither here nor there for me, but this is still some especially hinky shit.
In any case, though, just for my own morbid curiosity, I'll be keeping an eye on this game to see if a Denuvo warning shows up on the store page after it is officially released. If it turns out that this game, against all odds, really isn't infested with the badware, then great. If it does turn out to have it, though... (EDIT) ...and, sure enough, as Mord said, the Denuvo malware warning appeared on the Steam page for the game on release, so yeah, fuck Frontier Developments in the anus with an old, spiky corn cob drenched in necrotizing fasciitis. (/EDIT)
So, I saw Jurassic World Evolution 2 showing up in my Steam recommendations and shit. Apparently, it is going to release tomorrow. Since the first game had (and still has) Denuvo, I went to the store page to see if the second one is also infected with that malware. The store page currently does not show the Denuvo malware warning. I was skeptical, even so, because this is not the first time Steam and/or the developers of a game had hidden the Denuvo status on a pre-release game (or even on games that were released long ago, for that matter). When I went into the forums and saw that threads that mention Denuvo are being locked (whether they talk about piracy or not), that pretty much sealed it for me. I wouldn't have been buying this game regardless, because I don't trust the developers/publishers of this game to not have tainted their game with that shit, given that they have apparently done so with most of the other games they've released, so it's neither here nor there for me, but this is still some especially hinky shit.
In any case, though, just for my own morbid curiosity, I'll be keeping an eye on this game to see if a Denuvo warning shows up on the store page after it is officially released. If it turns out that this game, against all odds, really isn't infested with the badware, then great. If it does turn out to have it, though... (EDIT) ...and, sure enough, as Mord said, the Denuvo malware warning appeared on the Steam page for the game on release, so yeah, fuck Frontier Developments in the anus with an old, spiky corn cob drenched in necrotizing fasciitis. (/EDIT)
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Date: 2021-11-13 09:18 pm (UTC)From:The only Sega games I've been buying on Steam lately have been the Yakuza games. (Only Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2 so far, though, and of those I've only played maybe halfway through 0. Haven't gotten the last four yet, and I won't until/unless I see them on a good sale.) These either don't have the Denuvo malware infesting them, or else Sega isn't being forthright on their Steam pages about it, if they do. I'm pretty sure that Yakuza 0 used to be contaminated with it, but they removed it a year or so before I ever bought it (and I wasn't aware of it at the time).
Well, aside from the newest one, Like a Dragon, which definitely is infected with Denuvo and shows it on the Steam page. And, as such, I have less than zero interest in buying or playing it. I don't want that poison on my computer if I can at all avoid it.