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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.
