Everyone calling out Denuvo for being a laggy mess, rejoice! Denuvo is being hurt bad the bad PR enough to launch a full on propaganda war. One such weapon in their arsenal: Giving “trusted” outlets access to both the unDRM and the DRM copies of the game.
Now for anyone who knows game’s journalism, you do not bite the hand that feeds you. Your income revolves around being one of the first to the punch when it comes to a review and the only way to be first is to ensure studios like you enough to give you early access copies.
Does anyone here think these outlets are going to say that Denuvo is slow? Not if they ever want that kind of access again! “Trusted” is right. “Trusted” to be in Denuvo’s pocket.
Plenty of games to play that don’t have Denuvo.
Still sucks when the game you want has it and you have to try and find a inferior way to scratch the itch with a different game. As a paying customer for 100% of my library, you guys get the better edition. It may still have Denuvo on it, but at least you didn’t pay for it.
There are so many games out there and my waitlist has already grown so long that I feel no problem in completely ignoring any game that has Denuvo. Odds are it’d be so long before I got around to it that the hype would be gone anyway.
Sometimes the correct answer isn’t just vote with your wallet, but to vote for the policies/people who will fix the shitty system.
That being said, yes protest with your wallet if nothing else, but it won’t change anything usually, unfortunately.
Is there a way to tell if a game is using this crap?
EDIT 3: Another auto-updated list of games to avoid that use Denuvo
EDIT: found this list, will leave it here in case someone needs it.
EDIT 2: also as they pointed out in the comments (for Steam users) this list is more updated, and if you follow it, it shows you if a game uses denuvo or not when you are browsing a game’s store page.
That’s cool but you can’t search through it and the way the list is displayed makes it so there is no game title in text so Ctrl+F isn’t possible either. Am I missing something?
No, you’re not. It’s for whenever you’re browsing games on steam, like the discovery queue or when there’s a big sale, it will show up before the description if it has, like this.
what about this one? https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Denuvo#List_of_games_using_Denuvo_Anti-Tamper
hard no for me. it is retarded for a product you buy to dictate how you use it
Try being a e release engineer and having to use it. It’s awful. You have to configure your nodes to connect to their servers and then wait for the “magic”. Quite often it would time out and this was for a mega video game studio. Denovo is trash.
Hopefully they leak the denuvoless exe
While I am right there with you, these will likely be fingerprinted builds. Meaning that a single instance of a leak will result in them no longer being considered “trusted.” No outlet is going to chance that, and exceedingly few individuals are going to jeopardize their income like that.
Saw a propaganda piece like that a few days ago on Ars Technica. The comments there were pretty much the same as here, “Ah yes, the classic non-answer of saying BS until the person forgets what they asked”, in regards to them ignoring the many games’ sudden CPU spikes and frame drops caused by denuvo
