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.)
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Date: 2018-08-09 07:43 pm (UTC)From: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.)