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It finally happened. I finally, without realizing it until now, have installed and have been playing a game that has Denuvo in it.
South Park: The Fractured But Whole. I'd played through this game in the past, a few years ago, and was completely unaware it contained Denuvo, as this was back before I really started paying attention to this shit.
The other day, I finished a second playthrough of South Park: The Stick of Truth (which does not have that shitware in it, by the way [or if it does, it's another of the cases where Steam and/or the publisher, Ubisoft in this case, are being less than forthcoming]), so I was like, hey, I'll play the sequel again, too, why not.
Well, as I've been playing it, I've been noticing random instances where the controls will just horribly lag, as in like, I'll be playing normally, without a problem, but then my character will just stop responding to inputs for like a second or two. I.e. if I wasn't moving, I wouldn't start moving until a second or two after I pressed the movement buttons. Or if I was already moving, and I released the button, my character would continue to move for a second or two before stopping. Nothing completely game-breaking (yet), as it only happens occasionally, but it's incredibly annoying when it does happen.
I was looking online for potential fixes for this, and I saw people mentioning "the DRM" as the likely culprit behind this. And I was like, oh no.... oh no. I went to the Steam store page and, sure the fuck enough, it is infected with the malware.
So, yeah, again, god the fuck damn it.
Oh, and on top of all that, this is also a game that requires Uplay (or "Ubisoft Connection" or whatever the fuck they call it now) in addition to being infested with the Denuvo dumbfuckery, so that's doubly loathsome. Everything about all of this fucking sucks because the game is otherwise pretty good. (Stick of Truth does not require this asshattery, mind you.)
All that said, I'm not going to stop playing it now, unless this lag issue becomes more troublesome than it already is, but I'm still extremely pissed off about this. This obviously doesn't mean that I'm suddenly feeling all hunky-dory about Denuvo, or that I'm going to start buying Denuvo-contaminated games willy-nilly or whatever, because fuck that shit all the way to hell and back and then to hell again, where it came from in the first place.
The only potential silver lining is that the next South Park game will apparently be created without the Ubisoft middleman this time, so maybe, just maybe, it actually won't be polluted with the shitstain on the underwear of the video game industry that is Denuvo. We'll see, I guess. If it is, though, I most assuredly won't be buying it. And, well, if it's not an open-world RPG like the previous two games were (regardless of whether it continues the same story from the previous two games or not), that will also dampen my interest in it, but that's neither here nor there. Also not sure why they're apparently going 3D with it, because I liked the 2D graphics just fine, especially since it's similar to (what little I've seen of) the show.
(To go off on a tangent, is it weird that I've played and [otherwise] enjoyed these South Park games even though I can count on one hand with fingers left over the number of full episodes I've seen of the South Park TV show? I have to admit, to end on a semi-positive note, that it kind of makes me want to watch the show at some point.)
South Park: The Fractured But Whole. I'd played through this game in the past, a few years ago, and was completely unaware it contained Denuvo, as this was back before I really started paying attention to this shit.
The other day, I finished a second playthrough of South Park: The Stick of Truth (which does not have that shitware in it, by the way [or if it does, it's another of the cases where Steam and/or the publisher, Ubisoft in this case, are being less than forthcoming]), so I was like, hey, I'll play the sequel again, too, why not.
Well, as I've been playing it, I've been noticing random instances where the controls will just horribly lag, as in like, I'll be playing normally, without a problem, but then my character will just stop responding to inputs for like a second or two. I.e. if I wasn't moving, I wouldn't start moving until a second or two after I pressed the movement buttons. Or if I was already moving, and I released the button, my character would continue to move for a second or two before stopping. Nothing completely game-breaking (yet), as it only happens occasionally, but it's incredibly annoying when it does happen.
I was looking online for potential fixes for this, and I saw people mentioning "the DRM" as the likely culprit behind this. And I was like, oh no.... oh no. I went to the Steam store page and, sure the fuck enough, it is infected with the malware.
So, yeah, again, god the fuck damn it.
Oh, and on top of all that, this is also a game that requires Uplay (or "Ubisoft Connection" or whatever the fuck they call it now) in addition to being infested with the Denuvo dumbfuckery, so that's doubly loathsome. Everything about all of this fucking sucks because the game is otherwise pretty good. (Stick of Truth does not require this asshattery, mind you.)
All that said, I'm not going to stop playing it now, unless this lag issue becomes more troublesome than it already is, but I'm still extremely pissed off about this. This obviously doesn't mean that I'm suddenly feeling all hunky-dory about Denuvo, or that I'm going to start buying Denuvo-contaminated games willy-nilly or whatever, because fuck that shit all the way to hell and back and then to hell again, where it came from in the first place.
The only potential silver lining is that the next South Park game will apparently be created without the Ubisoft middleman this time, so maybe, just maybe, it actually won't be polluted with the shitstain on the underwear of the video game industry that is Denuvo. We'll see, I guess. If it is, though, I most assuredly won't be buying it. And, well, if it's not an open-world RPG like the previous two games were (regardless of whether it continues the same story from the previous two games or not), that will also dampen my interest in it, but that's neither here nor there. Also not sure why they're apparently going 3D with it, because I liked the 2D graphics just fine, especially since it's similar to (what little I've seen of) the show.
(To go off on a tangent, is it weird that I've played and [otherwise] enjoyed these South Park games even though I can count on one hand with fingers left over the number of full episodes I've seen of the South Park TV show? I have to admit, to end on a semi-positive note, that it kind of makes me want to watch the show at some point.)
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Date: 2021-11-16 09:48 am (UTC)From:Then again, I don't really buy console ports on steam in general anymore since the few ones I've bought in the past, which claim at least to have no 3rd party drm on it beyond the steam shit itself... I tend to have a poor chance of playing them on my pcs. In other words I have about 50% chance at best of getting it to start up without almost immediately shutting off. And for a good portion of the ones that do start up, the frame rate sucks ass.
It's why most of the games I'll buy on PC tend to be games that are fairly simple in nature.
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Date: 2021-11-16 10:11 pm (UTC)From:I'm not too big of a fan of console ports in general, and in particular because of bad ones that I tried, like .hack//G.U. and Ni no Kuni II (though the first Ni no Kuni was pretty good and worked quite well on PC).
As for the South Park games, though, given that they were released concurrently on PC and consoles, I don't really consider those to be console ports, regardless.