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Full headline because Dreamwidth continues to suck: "Denuvo plans to offer independent benchmarks in an attempt to prove its DRM doesn't cause performance problems"
It's already been proven many times over that it does cause performance problems. Hell, I know for a goddamn fact myself through personal experience that it does cause performance problems. Their worthless, lying, "independent benchmarks" can eat shit. I will never (knowingly) buy a video game that contains that badware.
And here's the thing, even if there actually weren't any noticeable performance issues, there are more than enough other issues with Denuvo that make it utterly unacceptable. Just as one example: How many games are unplayable now because of lack of support for (and lack of removal of) shit like SafeDisc and SecuROM? How many games are unplayable now because of shit like Games for Windows Live going down (and the games that used it weren't updated to work without it)? And, follow me on this, how many games will be unplayable when Denuvo inevitably dies as well (hopefully sooner than later), if that dogshit hasn't been removed from the games infected with it by then? And there will be games from which the Denuvo malware will never be legitimately removed, regardless of the circumstances or reasons why it should be. So, yeah, even if the games contaminated with Denuvo did run flawlessly (which they demonstrably don't), it's still terrible and needs to die.
It's already been proven many times over that it does cause performance problems. Hell, I know for a goddamn fact myself through personal experience that it does cause performance problems. Their worthless, lying, "independent benchmarks" can eat shit. I will never (knowingly) buy a video game that contains that badware.
And here's the thing, even if there actually weren't any noticeable performance issues, there are more than enough other issues with Denuvo that make it utterly unacceptable. Just as one example: How many games are unplayable now because of lack of support for (and lack of removal of) shit like SafeDisc and SecuROM? How many games are unplayable now because of shit like Games for Windows Live going down (and the games that used it weren't updated to work without it)? And, follow me on this, how many games will be unplayable when Denuvo inevitably dies as well (hopefully sooner than later), if that dogshit hasn't been removed from the games infected with it by then? And there will be games from which the Denuvo malware will never be legitimately removed, regardless of the circumstances or reasons why it should be. So, yeah, even if the games contaminated with Denuvo did run flawlessly (which they demonstrably don't), it's still terrible and needs to die.
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Date: 2023-07-09 08:54 pm (UTC)From:Denuvo affects performance differently with every game. So all I'd expect is for them to release studies about the trivial cases to back up their assertions, and use those studies to tell people they're wrong about the other cases where denuvo is causing bigger problems.
The bigger issues with not being able to run your game period if/when something happens to denuvo is indeed something I'm more wary of, although I'm also worried about it screwing around with anything on the computer other than the game it's infecting. Which I'm sure it does, much like SecuRom and the like would do. That's the part where I'm out and done with it honestly. On consoles, I -might- be more forgiving in this sense simply because I don't use my consoles for general computing - just games. But in those cases, if Denovu is causing ANY problems with performance than the tolerance factor is at 0, and my 'rage' such as it is becomes directed at both the developer/publisher of the game AND the console maker. So they can infect their ALREADY HIGHLY PROTECTED game on the console with denuvo if they're willing to face lifetime boycotts from me going forward.
Afterthought - I don't think I've bought a EA or Ubisoft game in over a decade... might have some freebies on psn though...
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Date: 2023-07-11 06:20 pm (UTC)From:And yeah, the Denuvo dumbfuckery corrupting consoles (which it definitely is) just makes me even less enthused than the near zero levels I was already hovering at regarding buying any new consoles.
I feel like I'm starting to get that way with Capcom and Squeenix and WB and other such Big Name Studio™ games as well. Last Capcom game I bought was probably the Phoenix Wright collection thing on Steam, which was admittedly less than a decade ago, but still. I might make another exception for Great Ace Attorney eventually, too, assuming I ever see it on a good enough sale, but I will not ever be buying any Capcom games that are defiled by Denuvo, up to and including Street Fighter 6 or Dragon's Dogma 2, as much as I may otherwise want to play them. I don't even recall what the last Squeenix game I bought was. Probably Life is Strange 2... which, not at all coincidentally, was around the time I stopped buying any Squeenix games at all. And that game is still, to this day, infested with the Denuvo malware, and thus I haven't installed it at all, despite having (unfortunately) bought it. The last big WB game I bought was probably Middle-earth: Shadow of War, and I got that one only because it was available, infection-free, on GOG (and also for an incredibly steep sale at the time). The Steam version of that game, like LIS2, is also still, to this day, poisoned with that badware, for whatever dumbshit reasons. Go figure.