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[-] gila@lemm.ee 332 points 1 year ago

Wait, but they already launched it without Denuvo. So pirates can easily crack the launch version without it, and only paying customers need to deal with the antipiracy bullshit? Nice, they took a pro-piracy hyperbole and made it actually real.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 235 points 1 year ago

DRM ONLY ever affects paying customers, ergo DRM is always unethical malware.

Also, let’s never forget how Ghostwire Tokyo had Denuvo patched IN over a year after release.

[-] gila@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Eh, I only meant hyperbole in terms of antipiracy affecting the pirates that had to figure out how to crack it. As a broad gesture at the fact piracy (consumption) depends on piracy (effort) to work

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 78 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking this too... like what's even the point of using denuvo if it's not applied day one? The whole point is to delay piracy so they sell more copies during launch week (in theory), so waiting until after day one completely ruins that since you can just pirate the easily cracked launch version.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The point is that they purposefully left (or created) bugs in the day one version that are fixed in this patch after you install denuvo

It’s not the first time they’ve done something like that, they broke another assassins creed game and leaked it to get people to buy the real copy, this is no different

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/935316-assassins-creed-directors-cut-edition/43146901

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 points 1 year ago

It's not a day one patch, but day-1 patch. The game will be released a few hours from now.

[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

If non DRM version is given to reviewers, it will leak to crackers, unless you control 100% of reviewers you give a copy. This does not make any sense.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 year ago

That's the thing: paying consumers always pay the price for DRM by having to jump through any hoops.

[-] alldreadme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but pirates won't be able to get the newer updates/bugfixes

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