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[CriticalGaming]

Of course. They know full well Denuvo is deeply unpopular with pc gamers, enough that a minor but still significant segment would forgo purchasing any game using it. Better to sneak it in at the last moment, in hopes most folks don't notice until they can no longer cancel their preorder and/or get a refund. A tactic that probably works, otherwise they wouldn't keep doing it.

But like haven't people realized that companies almost always shove DRM into games? Like...obviously there is going to be DRM why try to hide it? I don't understand.

The only thing I can think of is that these companies know that Denuvo is cracked quickly so if they hide it until right at release it will buy some time before it's cracked, rather than announcing it early and letting the crackers prepare.

 

[Chimpzy]

But like haven't people realized that companies almost always shove DRM into games? Like...obviously there is going to be DRM why try to hide it? I don't understand.

The only thing I can think of is that these companies know that Denuvo is cracked quickly so if they hide it until right at release it will buy some time before it's cracked, rather than announcing it early and letting the crackers prepare.

Ok, gotta clear up something. Denuvo is not really DRM. Denuvo is anti-tamper software, which probably sounds like a meaningless distinction, but there is a difference. What Denuvo does is sit in the background and constantly reads the game code to check if its been altered in any way while also encrypting it. This made games with Denuvo really hard to crack. Because to even get to the cracking part you first basically had to reverse engineer the Denuvo anti-tamper to remove it. Which is time-consuming and work intensive, and few people have the skills to even do it, or the patience for it.

Denuvo was actually very effective for years. The greater majority of Denuvo games never got cracked until fairly recently.

And technically, Denuvo still hasn't been beaten. All the newly 'cracked' Denuvo games still have Denuvo running. As I understand it, what's happened is someone found a way to bypass it by tricking it into thinking the code it's reading is legit unaltered code. This supposedly works for every Denuvo game, but the downside is you need to make changes to your security at the OS level for the bypass to work, in turn leaving you vulnerable to malicious software for as long as you want to keep using it.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Ok, gotta clear up something. Denuvo is not really DRM. Denuvo is anti-tamper software, which probably sounds like a meaningless distinction, but there is a difference. What Denuvo does is sit in the background and constantly reads the game code to check if its been altered in any way while also encrypting it. This made games with Denuvo really hard to crack. Because to even get to the cracking part you first basically had to reverse engineer the Denuvo anti-tamper to remove it. Which is time-consuming and work intensive, and few people have the skills to even do it, or the patience for it.

Denuvo was actually very effective for years. The greater majority of Denuvo games never got cracked until fairly recently.

And technically, Denuvo still hasn't been beaten. All the newly 'cracked' Denuvo games still have Denuvo running. As I understand it, what's happened is someone found a way to bypass it by tricking it into thinking the code it's reading is legit unaltered code. This supposedly works for every Denuvo game, but the downside is you need to make changes to your security at the OS level for the bypass to work, in turn leaving you vulnerable to malicious software for as long as you want to keep using it.

The biggest issue may be how much it can potentially affect performance.

New Analysis Shows How Denuvo Destroys Performance: Trashes CPU Cache And Optimization In Games

A new investigation into Denuvo's inner workings shows it hurts performance in games by invalidating CPU cache and most of the optimization.

tech4gamers.com

This should be intolerable to consumers who purchase any game legitimately.

 

[CriticalGaming]

The biggest issue may be how much it can potentially affect performance.

New Analysis Shows How Denuvo Destroys Performance: Trashes CPU Cache And Optimization In Games

A new investigation into Denuvo's inner workings shows it hurts performance in games by invalidating CPU cache and most of the optimization.

tech4gamers.com

This should be intolerable to consumers who purchase any game legitimately.

console supperiority!

 

[Bedinsis]

Actor and TV host Dragomir Mrsic starts a game studio

Dragomir Mrsic wishes to create games inspired by real events where story and action is felt for real where moral choices matter.

I raised my eyebrows at him starting a studio, both because we are constantly hit with news of studios struggling and because his backstory as a criminal-in-real-life turned criminal-on-screen is one I imagine does not come with a lot of money and making video games is expensive. Further investigations revealed he's the CEO of a company that rents out actors for film and theatre productions so my initial thought was rather shortsighted. He has credits as acting in Payday 2 and A Way Out, so maybe he felt inspired or wanted to synergize with his other company.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

NPR has a weekly comedic news quiz game show called Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. This week, one of the questions was something like: XBox changed its name to make itself more relevant to the gaming market. Answer: to "XBOX" but now in all-caps. And everybody laughed.

 

[Chimpzy]

Hefty PC Requirements Are Only The Beginning, As Lego Batman Quietly Adds Denuvo DRM

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is already a demanding game, but Denuvo DRM risks worsening performance further.

www.thegamer.com

Apparently there's a bloke goes by Voices38 who has a method of cracking Denuvo games day 1. Guess what happened

The biggest issue may be how much it can potentially affect performance.

New Analysis Shows How Denuvo Destroys Performance: Trashes CPU Cache And Optimization In Games

A new investigation into Denuvo's inner workings shows it hurts performance in games by invalidating CPU cache and most of the optimization.

tech4gamers.com

This should be intolerable to consumers who purchase any game legitimately.

Yes, it should be intolerable. Unfortunately, gamers are among the most spineless consumers, likely outmatched only by Apple and/or Tesla fanboys.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Hefty PC Requirements Are Only The Beginning, As Lego Batman Quietly Adds Denuvo DRM

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is already a demanding game, but Denuvo DRM risks worsening performance further.

www.thegamer.com

Apparently there's a bloke goes by Voices38 who has a method of cracking Denuvo games day 1. Guess what happened

Yes, it should be intolerable. Unfortunately, gamers are among the most spineless consumers, likely outmatched only by Apple and/or Tesla fanboys.

But considering PC-centric gamers are the ones affected, and there always being a more dedicated faction among them to deal with it, odds are there will always be enough resistance to make a difference.

 

[meiam]

Sooooo apparently there was an ikaruga sequel announced all the way back in 2014, but it just got cancelled.

Ubusuna canceled

M2 has canceled the development of Ubusuna, the 2014-announced shoot ’em up from Ikaruga creator Hiroshi Iuchi.

www.gematsu.com

They claimed they've been working on it since 2014, but that sound really dubious since there's no game out.

 

[Chimpzy]

Sooooo apparently there was an ikaruga sequel announced all the way back in 2014, but it just got cancelled.

Ubusuna canceled

M2 has canceled the development of Ubusuna, the 2014-announced shoot ’em up from Ikaruga creator Hiroshi Iuchi.

www.gematsu.com

They claimed they've been working on it since 2014, but that sound really dubious since there's no game out.

Not the first game to get stuck in dev hell that long, but yeah. Just conjecture, but I'm thinking perhaps Iuchi left because this was his pet project but the studio heads didn't support it, or something to that effect.