Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

"I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"

Should we call it a fallacious call to authority, meme on it for being a "how do you do, fellow gamers" moment, or simply mock the guy for whoring himself out in favor of daddy corporate? I could write an essay on the ways this is an absurd statement.

Gamers hate Denuvo because it doesn't "simply work". It limits paying customers from accessing their content, bogs down mid-range machines that are already overtaxxed by poor optimization and, in admittedly uncommon cases, full on breaks some games until patches and fixes roll out. Stop pretending that "gamers" are out here rioting because they're too cheap and immoral to pay for content. Quit your fuckin' lying.

and we're tired of Denuvo lol

Well I'm a game dev myself and drm is bullshit. Denuvo can get fucked

Denuvo's DRM is bad for games.

DRM is shite by itself as well.

I'm a gamer, therfore I know what I'm talking about. Denuvo is SHIT!

Its simple.

Pirates don't ruin games for other players.

Pirates ruin games for the dealers.

Good luck trying to PR like this garbage is useful to the end user, you gonna need it.

Well, he's not wrong that it's "super hard" to see any benefit of Denuvo for anyone other than the beneficial owners of Denuvo Software Solutions. Gamers might have a better than average ability to suspend disbelief, but that "new study" was pushing it a bit far.

Boohoo, Denuvo, cry me a fudging river!

Gravity is tired of humans saying it causes things to fall down.

only good thing about their drm its so expensive very few companies will pay a subscription to keep it active forever

Well, is because its true.

How do you do, fellow gamers!

Denuvo: I'm tired of this grandpa!

Everyone: THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD

Denuvo rhymes with "fuck you, no."

We should totally just go along with DRM, or they might decide to break other stuff. This is totally an innocent request, and far from attempted extortion.

/s

Denuvo and every employee there can suck my hairy, unshaven, sweaty, salty, moist, oily ball sack.

Too bad. Denuvo sucks.

Hm. I wonder why gamers say that.

I am not going to say that I think Denuvo is good for gaming. I fully accept the importance of DRM for week one sales (which make a huge difference to publishers) and understand that activation models are incredibly useful for that but I also think activation model DRM is fundamentally shite because it renders games unplayable in order "Why is this random ass server plugged in in this closet?".

But I do think people overly attribute negative performance to denuvo. Implemented correctly, there are MAYBE a few checks per hour and that is system noise. The problem is that, for whatever reason, so many games end up adding the denuvo checks to critical path operations that either completely delay the loading of a new area or tank performance completely because it is checking a dozen times per minute. And that is 100% on Denuvo for not working properly with the studios they license their tools to.

But for the ones who DO implement it sanely? It is barely noticeable to the end user... from a performance standpoint.

Remember kids: Hate mother fuckers for what they actually do. Rather than going the "bitch eating crackers" route.