Urge to pirate, rising…
I've downloaded software that I had paid for, simply because of the bullshit involved with DRM, licence unlocking, etc.
If the user experience of a paid software or service is inferior to a pirated version, then the developers are doing something wrong.
Same. At a minimum, I remember having to d/l no-CD cracks to get around the annoying and totally unnecessary disc DRM (that required you to insert the disc, just to prove you had it).
While the CD checks are absolutely annoying, nothing, and I mean nothing, was more inconvenient than having to go to a certain page and a certain line and a certain word in the manual to unlock a program you paid for. Fucking infuriating.
Shuddderr. I remember the first time I saw a game do that, I thought oh what a fun little game I guess it's to get me to use the manual... like some kind of ARG, but when I realized the real purpose all the joy was sucked out of it.
Necessity*
Or you could always just not play the game? Is that not an option?
But I'm already doing that. I want to do my part to dissuade bad software practices.
Who am I kidding I'm just going to keep working through the Cacowards forever.
After how id treated my man Mick Gordon, I'm torrenting cracked versions of their games here on out - pulling the patient gamer card.
Fuck the management at id. Just another corporate machine.
Meanwhile, DRM-free Doom (2016) is here, it also runs quite good >>> https://www.gog.com/en/game/doom_2016
with good music too
Aww, that's disappointing. Linux users with a DS or who use emulators should look into Orcs & Elves in the meantime. It's another fantasy-flavored FPS from ID and it's pretty good.
Orcs & Elves
dude, sick, i never heard of this one 👍
Didn't fall for it, even when they whisper sweet little lies in my ear, I just say to myself, I quit gaming. I'm done. If I can't own it, I ain't playing it. And now I just joined the class war. Because you know, there is no war but the class war.
If I can’t own, I pwn.
I can't own it, I'm pirating it.
Pause?
i wanted to buy it because i know it will be good.
but ill pirate it instead as soon as its cracked. thanks ill save myself the money, you fucks.
it won’t be cracked, you have to hope the devs leak the drm-free version
Only way for this to change is to vote with your (virtual) feet and wallet and "cancel" games that have DRM, in my opinion.
Man, they're taking the "dark ages" part seriously.
Earlier this year, I got a game I liked on steam. Pretty much 3d Rimworld. After playing for 20 hours over a few weeks, I sporadically started getting errors about me having "no hardware activations" left for the game, and how I should wait 24 hours. I have never installed it on any other machine.
It is so very silly that a pirated copy would be the more seamless experience.
Fuck Microsoft. They enshittify everything and they support a genocide by helping to select targets to murder. No game is worth supporting this.
Eh 70 dollars for 10 hours of repetitive gameplay is bad value anyway.
Don't tell competitive gamers that. LOL, CS, Overwatch, COD whatever is about a simple game loop for those who enjoy that loop.
Seeing this pains me, especially considering Id Software's history with Linux. Prior to being bought by Bethesda, most of Id's games had official native Linux ports. Even Doom 3 had a native Linux port, it doesn't seem to work anymore but there are source ports like Dhewm3 available for it.
Aside from screwing Linux users, they're also screwing AMD users with forced ray-tracing + broken FSR, and I'd imagine there's also a lot of overlap there.
Even amd users are suffering like Linux users Microsoft got no chill 💀
All this drm nonsense ever does is punishes the paying customers and maybe delays cracked version by a few days, but fucking pencil pushers still put it into everything.
maybe delays cracked version by a few days
Denuvo has not been cracked since 2023. The only pirated copies of Doom Eternal were using a leaked denuvo-free build until Bethesda removed denuvo entirely 3 years after release, and unfortunately they didn't leak a denuvo-free build this time, so you are probably going to have to wait a couple of years or so.
Just another reason to wait long after release to buy a game. Denuvo charges games companies to administer the DRM infrastructure and most developers will strip it out of their games after it's been out for a while.
Buying games on launch is one of the most anti-customer experiences you can get. And that's saying something in our wonderful capitalist economy
Buying a game post-launch:
No brainer, imo.
you aren't buying doom because it has denuvo. im not buying doom because i am boycotting microsoft products. we are probably a little similar
Yet more evidence that the smartest thing you can do if the game comes from a AAA studio is hold off on buying it for 6-12 months.
Denuvo identifies a user opening a game with multiple versions of Proton as multiple machines. It thinks that's piracy and locks the user out of the game
Refund and wait for a crack. Fuck Denuvo and fuck Bethesda for using them
It's not really Bethesda anymore though is it? Either ID software or Microsoft, no?
I completely forgot Microsoft bought Bethesda lol explains a lot
Was this before or after this: https://lemmy.world/post/29593011
Because I'm curious why Valve would have gone to so much trouble to make the game run on Linux just to ruin that.
Well the game runs well if you just launch it with only one Proton configuration and keep playing on that. The issue is changing the Proton version is recognized as multiple installations by the DRM and it locks you out after a couple of tries.
This is what I didn't understand. Thank you for explaining.
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