The official Steam page for Deep Silver and Starbreeze’s PAYDAY 3 game has been updated to show the use of this ever-controversial third-party DRM.
Paying money to save money from imaginary lost sales…
Well that’s another game I won’t be buying. If it gets cracked I might try it, but I won’t buy anything with denuvo out of principle.
Filthy console player here, with a genuine question. What’s so especially bad about denuvo? I mean, compared to other DRM, which Are also shitty by principle of being DRM.
Not even factoring in killing any sort of mod support (prob not the biggest concern for Payday, but in a general sense it matters) Denuvo is notorious for hurting performance, but the makers aren’t really incentivized to optimize anything because gamers aren’t their customers. The publishers pay the cost to use it. The gamers just feel the cost. Especially if the game is a PC port that already has optimization issues.
Almost all games that are protected by Denuvo anti-tamper suffer from increased loading times, lower frame rates, and other performance issues.
And that is why I don’t preorder games anymore.
Denuvo = no purchase.
Games with denuvo: “Once we have your money, we don’t give a rat’s ass about how the game plays”
