WB Sale on Steam. (This is not an endorsement, this is yet another anti-Denuvo rant.)

[kane_magus]

So I looked at the publisher sale on Steam for WB. (Not going to be linking to any of this shit, by the way.)

Looked at Mortal Kombat 11 and was surprised that the Denuvo marker on the store page was no longer there, which corresponded with the forums saying that it had been removed. Didn't buy it, regardless, because I just can't bring myself to care, even at the current "lower than normal but still not low enough for me to waste money on it" sale price. I mean, I never got around to buying Mortal Kombat X, either, even though I don't remember at this point if it ever even had Denuvo in the first place, so... *shrug*

Looked at Injustice 2 and was not surprised to see that the Denuvo marker was still on the store page, but somewhat surprised that this contrasted with the forums claiming that Denuvo had been removed from it. I will, in this case at least, take the pub/dev at its word, assume Denuvo is still in the game given the tag on the store page, and as such will continue to not buy it. Not that I would have bought it anyway since, same as with MK11, I just can't bring myself to give a shit.

Looked at Middle-earth: Shadow of War, saw Denuvo thing on the store page still, didn't even bother to check the forums, and just closed out of the whole thing, because I just didn't have any more fucks to give about this shit, for the time being, aside from making this post about it. To be fair, of these three games, Shadow of War is one that I'd be most likely to potentially buy at some point, if I could be sure that the Denuvo badware finally had been removed, but even so, that likelihood is still pretty fucking low at this point, regardless.

Comments

[owsf2000]

Long ago I straight up just stopped buying games from big name publishers (particularly ports from consoles) mainly because they're the ones keeping that whole drm nonsense alive and well.

For console games I'll get it on a console. (Although the odds of me picking up consoles themselves seem to be worsening every gen. Stopped buying Xbox consoles with the 360, and I haven't even considered a PS5 yet. And with the recent price hike of an extra 50 bucks recently, the odds of me caring about a PS5 sank even further in the toilet)

I can probably see myself only getting nintendo consoles nex-... well current gen. Already got a switch. Whether I'll buy an upgraded one or not is another issue. Just bought a compact pro controller (nano) for my switch recently so we'll see if I'll play it more often. I tend to prefer using it handheld mode, but some games just don't feel right without a controller in my hands - like Ys.

[kane_magus]

As far as Denuvo goes, I don't even make a distinction between PC and console anymore, because that shit is even on the Switch now. Any problems Denuvo causes on PC (worse performance, no performance if/when Denuvo goes down, non-existent games whenever Denuvo inevitably goes down permanently unless it's patched out, etc.) are going to affect consoles as well, even if all the idiots/fanboys/rep drones claim otherwise. That's part of the reason that I am ever more disinclined to care about getting any current gen consoles. Though, to be fair, I still haven't bothered with any of the previous most recent gen ones, either, so... *shrug*