News The Cowardly Crimes Of Dastardly Denuvo (The Jimquisition)
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Wait is AC Odyssey's performance actually proven to be hampered by it's DRM implementation? That's really unfortunate, cuz even with an 8700k it sometimes makes my CPU scream. Really curious now if without DRM it would chill the heck out and some of the random frame-time spikes would stop.
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not 100% ... Voksi kinda/sorta provided a lot of data back then (with screenshots etc.) ... but ubi as usual just said that it's not true
and since there is no way to rip out denuvo out of anything (just bypass) - there is also no way to see if it actually does
games that remove denuvo in a patch also aren't really a proof because the patch could've also affected performance regardless of denuvo removal
etc. etc. etc.
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there is no point ... at all ... especially since they KNOW it doesn't do jack shitGah! That's frustrating. As usual then, my stance remains that ALL DRM should include a self-destruct that executes after 30 days.
... or that Devs should remove it upon failure. Like once it stops doing it's job what's the point in continuing to punish legit customers?
they're doing it purely to shut shareholders up ... to show them they're doing something to stop piracy
i believe someone (a dev) said that in some interview iirc
Well at least there's a calm proper discussion of the matter.
In this thread I mean.
In this thread I mean.
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10 years too late but Jim finally talked about Denuvo, I thought this day would never come.
I'm don't even think it's for shareholders. Upper management / executive level people at these companies are always the ones saying really uninformed things about piracy and DRM. There's no reason to believe that management is just magically better in software companies than other companies, so I can easily believe that Denuvo spins a good tale and a sales pitch lays within and the company buys it up.
Pretty much every data analysis done has shown DRM does nothing more than a rounding error against piracy, but I work at a software company and management does not care about research on anything, software related, office related, or otherwise. They go with what they were taught and what business culture has said for decades. The RIAA lost more money fighting piracy than they did to piracy and no one seems to remember that.
I would much rather SEGA just takes however many hundreds of thousands or whatever they spend on Denuvo and like, buy their developers lunch or hire a few more or something. It would be infinitely more productive to their bottom line.
Pretty much every data analysis done has shown DRM does nothing more than a rounding error against piracy, but I work at a software company and management does not care about research on anything, software related, office related, or otherwise. They go with what they were taught and what business culture has said for decades. The RIAA lost more money fighting piracy than they did to piracy and no one seems to remember that.
I would much rather SEGA just takes however many hundreds of thousands or whatever they spend on Denuvo and like, buy their developers lunch or hire a few more or something. It would be infinitely more productive to their bottom line.
Day 1 patches for all.Gah! That's frustrating. As usual then, my stance remains that ALL DRM should include a self-destruct that executes after 30 days.
... or that Devs should remove it upon failure. Like once it stops doing it's job what's the point in continuing to punish legit customers?