Denuvo’s quest to improve its reputation with PC gamers is personal.
You know, i prefer my cyberpunk dystopias to be ballsy enough to just say it with their chest. You’d never catch Lofwyr groveling like this.
I’d also very much prefer dragons, or at least technological implants, but whatever.
Very toxic, and very hostile if you do stupid, dumb corpo bullshit. Fuck this guy.
Fuck Denuvo. DRM does not benefit the gamer. Period. No amount of gaslighting will change that.
Imagine someone punches you in the mouth and then when you get pissed off and say mean things, they call you “toxic” and “hostile”. Like bitch, you created this situation.
The upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard will somewhat surprisingly not use Denuvo at all
There’s the tell. Publishers might start listening to their customers, who generate income, rather than their vendors’ sales personnel, who create expenses. He’s panicked over a potential existential crisis.
Huh. This is literally the best advertising veilguard has ever had.
Oh look, Denuvo playing the victim.
And it exemplifies rather well why I hate the word “toxic”: bad reputation? Toxic! Criticism? Toxic!
Bullshitting like «it’s in part because it “simply works” and would-be pirates are trying to make it unattractive to game publishers by disparaging it.»? Noooo that is not toxic because it aligns with the discourse that Denuvo wants to spread, right?
“I’m with the company for such a long time,” said Ullmann. “The guys here are like my family, because a lot of the others here are also here for ages. It just hurts to see what’s posted out there about us, even though it has been claimed wrong for hundreds of times.”
"Insert personal story to make it look like you aren’t criticising software; no, you’re criticising a family. You monster~
You can be a great person and still write garbage software. Whether you’re just doing it because you need money or whether you’re misguided and think it’s actually good, that doesn’t necessarily make you a bad person (and remember: It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it).
Doesn’t make the software less garbage.
A person is good or bad depending on their impact on the people around them; as such I don’t consider “misguided” a valid defence.
And while someone can be overall a good person while writing socially harmful and user-hostile software, because they have other qualities that compensate it, writing said software still makes them a worse person.
It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it
So it’s hard to be good when your salary depends on you being bad.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m analysing this through my moral views, but I don’t think that they’re the only valid ones. Your mileage may vary.
My other comment was mostly on how idiotic the whole defence is, not about morality (as this one).
it exemplifies rather well why I hate the word “toxic”
I mean it can be abused just like any other adjective…
Most people that i know that use the word toxic, are the things that they mean when they say toxic. Its a worthless word in the contexts its being used in.
Denuvo has the reputation it has for a reason, and labeling their critics (most of the gaming community) as salty pirates is not going to help them any.
When it comes to performance claims, why on Earth would I believe the salespeople for Denuvo over the people forced to play with it? The former has every inventive to quash any and all claims of causing performance issues.
Have you tried not hurting game performance?
Better yet, have they tried not fucking with gamers’ property rights by shutting down their criminal company?
Fuck Denuvo. They just slithered their way into Undisputed with the 1.0 update and I’m stuck without a boxing game again.
Fuck off, Denuvo.
Yes, the Steam forums are awful, but still. Fuck off. Nobody wants you here.
To be fair. The Steam forums are actually pretty bad in general and could do with better moderation.
Having said that, there is a reason why some corporations have the reputation that they have. Might want to fix the thing that is causing that reputation instead of blaming everyone else for your bad reputation. But that would be the harder thing to do that takes time and effort and no one likes to put effort in.
What do you mean?
All I see are hearts and love ❤️❤️❤️❤️. /sSkill issue.
@BrikoX The only thing Denuvo can ever do is make the product worse. Plenty of games launch DRM-free, and that’s what I want as a customer.
I haven’t bought a Denuvo-protected game in about a decade, and that isn’t going to change.
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protectedinfestedFTFY. The notion that Denuvo “protects” anything whatsoever is itself accidental pro-Denuvo loaded language.
