As gaming on Linux becomes more popular, Denuvo’s “activations” limit will become a bigger problem.
  • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Earlier this year, I got a game I liked on steam. Pretty much 3d Rimworld. After playing for 20 hours over a few weeks, I sporadically started getting errors about me having “no hardware activations” left for the game, and how I should wait 24 hours. I have never installed it on any other machine.

    It is so very silly that a pirated copy would be the more seamless experience.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Just another reason to wait long after release to buy a game. Denuvo charges games companies to administer the DRM infrastructure and most developers will strip it out of their games after it’s been out for a while.

    Buying games on launch is one of the most anti-customer experiences you can get. And that’s saying something in our wonderful capitalist economy

    • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Buying a game post-launch:

      • Better prices; often on sale.
      • Fixed and patched up.
      • Extra content often included.
      • DRM often removed.

      No brainer, imo.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      Pirating single player games is unfortunately the way to go, considering you BUY a single player game and STILL get fucked on it.

      • CybranM@feddit.nuEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Disagree, like yesman (lol) said it’s best to wait. I’m not that worried about playing games day one but I still want to sort the Devs, after they’ve patched out the bugs and removed DRM preferably

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          If only buying games actually supported devs anymore. Devs seem to get fired for any reason nowadays.

          Bad game? Fired. Good game? Also fired. Popular game that people loved? Believe it or not, also fired. Develop a game only for the company to change direction and the game gets cancelled? Absolutely fired.

          You’d think these publishers would value talent as much as their intellectual property but they seem to not care anymore for either.

          • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Plenty of singleplayer games are from indies, those more or less support the developer.

            • Sebastrion@leminal.spaceEnglish
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              6 months ago

              I’m sure most pirates don’t sit here and want a crack for a 10-20€ Indie Game. But a 80€ Game (sometimes even with additional microtransaktions like skins etc.) Yeah I see that.

  • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Didn’t fall for it, even when they whisper sweet little lies in my ear, I just say to myself, I quit gaming. I’m done. If I can’t own it, I ain’t playing it. And now I just joined the class war. Because you know, there is no war but the class war.