Denuvo

[kane_magus]

"Games protected by Denuvo require an online re-activation for every hardware change every 24 hours and Denuvo limits activations to four hardware upgrades per 24 hours."

Have I posted about this bullshit before? It seems to be somewhat familiar, but if I have posted about it before, I can't find it now. So, as such, I am posting about it now. It basically sounds like the same sort of horseshit that the X-Bone was originally planned to do (i.e. online check every 24 hours) before they got roasted to hell and back for it.

There are a few games on the list that I'd have liked to have played at some point, but guess I won't, now. At least, not until they get moved to this other list, but even then... :/ (EDIT 4) Strike-through, because neither of those lists exist on Wikipedia anymore. *weary sigh* (/EDIT 4)

(Yet another case where I wish I'd named the "asinine anti-singleplayer trend" tag as "asinine anti-offline trend" instead, but oh well, like I said before, I'm not changing it now, as it would break too much old shit.)

(EDIT) How timely. There are reports that this Denuvo malware is fucking over legitimate users because they don't have the apparently required hardware to support the malware. To restate, some people are being punished because their hardware isn't up-to-date enough to run the DRM on the game, let alone the game itself. (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2) And, as usual, same as with every other goddamn dumbshit thing the modern video game industry pukes out, there are tons of fanboys/apologists/reputation management drones underneath them with their open mouths facing upward to catch that puke and eat it. For example. (/EDIT 2)

(EDIT 3) Seriously, I thought I was over being enraged by the continually atrocious behavior of the modern video game industry, but I guess not. Fuck the modern video game industry. (/EDIT 3)

Comments

[owsf2000]

You might have raged about Denuvo in the comments of my entries as I'm pretty sure I've bitched about it before.

Additionally this is also part of why I won't buy games less than a few weeks old on Steam except for probably 1-2 exceptions (by publishers who never use third party DRM ever - usually because paying to do so would seriously impact their profits since they ain't a billion dollar publisher).

That is, there have been several instances where a AAA game launched on steam over the last couple of years without explicitly stating it was using third party drm - always Denuvo. They wouldn't update their store page until customers noticed odd behaviour in their computers in playing the game (since the drm almost always degrades performance of the game it's 'protecting') and ousted them as using it.

Yeah "oopsie, sorry about that. Thanks for your money AHAHAHAHA."

Gets easier and easier to save money for other things with all the things the video game industry does to push me away. (Although this hits PC gaming far more than console gaming since I accept consoles as being heavily drmed up - so long as that never stops the game from running on it's own intended hardware. The first time I get a game that refuses to run at launch due to failing to be properly encoded for the console will be the first and last straw for them I think - I won't accept a patch fixing the issue.)

[kane_magus]

Maybe it was you that I remember it from. I know the name sounded vaguely familiar, at least, but I couldn't find a specific post of mine that mentioned it, not even in the "mord's post my comments" cop-out posts that I do sometimes.

Also, it's a little funny that most of my edits are about Monster Hunter World (even though I don't even bother to name the game itself in my post above), because the game that initially brought this Denuvo horseshit to my attention (again?) was actually Valkyria Chronicles 4. I saw it mentioned in the forums for that and that's why I initially wrote the post above, then the news about it breaking Monster Hunter World for people came out the next day.