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*tired, apathetic sigh*
Square Enix apparently just cannot release anything these days that isn't infested with malware. And by "malware," of course, I mean Denuvo.
That thing there showed up on the little "Steam News" window that sometimes pops up when you first launch the Steam client. I clicked on it, out of idle curiosity, and the first thing I did was to look to see who published it, then I scrolled down a bit to see if the infection warning was there, and sure enough, as I expected given that it's Square Enix, the ugly little brown-orange-tan-babyshit-diarrhea colored label was there. So I immediately closed the window and wrote the game off entirely. That was less than two minutes ago as of the time I started writing this post. And at this exact moment, as I type this sentence, if you asked me what the name of that game was, I literally could not tell you without clicking or merely mousing over that link in the preview window to check (or, you know, just glancing up at the URL html code in the Dreamwidth edit window, which I'm trying hard not to do and have thus far been successful), because I've already mostly forgotten everything about the game. Crystal something, maybe? Okay, now I'll check. Nope, I was way off, not Crystal anything. Anyway, that's what Denuvo does, at least for me. It makes me try to immediately and entirely forget the existence of games that I know are contaminated with that shit, because I will never knowingly and willingly buy such games. And in the very unlikely event that even one game developer/publisher somehow happens to stumble across this post (or any of the others), and it makes them change their mind and decide not to include that fucking dogshit in their game, then I will have accomplished something for the ever so slight betterment of the modern video game industry.
(The only, only thing that I will give Square Enix credit for is that they've put the malware warning on the game months in advance of its release. THIS TIME, at least, because they have, scummily, not always done that in the past.)
That thing there showed up on the little "Steam News" window that sometimes pops up when you first launch the Steam client. I clicked on it, out of idle curiosity, and the first thing I did was to look to see who published it, then I scrolled down a bit to see if the infection warning was there, and sure enough, as I expected given that it's Square Enix, the ugly little brown-orange-tan-babyshit-diarrhea colored label was there. So I immediately closed the window and wrote the game off entirely. That was less than two minutes ago as of the time I started writing this post. And at this exact moment, as I type this sentence, if you asked me what the name of that game was, I literally could not tell you without clicking or merely mousing over that link in the preview window to check (or, you know, just glancing up at the URL html code in the Dreamwidth edit window, which I'm trying hard not to do and have thus far been successful), because I've already mostly forgotten everything about the game. Crystal something, maybe? Okay, now I'll check. Nope, I was way off, not Crystal anything. Anyway, that's what Denuvo does, at least for me. It makes me try to immediately and entirely forget the existence of games that I know are contaminated with that shit, because I will never knowingly and willingly buy such games. And in the very unlikely event that even one game developer/publisher somehow happens to stumble across this post (or any of the others), and it makes them change their mind and decide not to include that fucking dogshit in their game, then I will have accomplished something for the ever so slight betterment of the modern video game industry.
(The only, only thing that I will give Square Enix credit for is that they've put the malware warning on the game months in advance of its release. THIS TIME, at least, because they have, scummily, not always done that in the past.)
