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Huh. I guess they'll play the games now?
No play, only download
I have stacks of 1-1.5 tb sd cards in a holder on my steam deck case because I can never delete a game but I don't have time to play them either.
Remember to power them once in a while since the stored charge slowly leaks.
I have them in a leak-proof holder.
checkmate ๐
How often is once in a while cause fuuuuuuck....
Like once every few years at least. More often if they are cheap or if the cells have been rewritten a lot.
I certainly hope Denuvo steps on something pointy, but there's no way I'm installing an HV bypass on any machine.
That shit does not run on Linux, so I guess I'm in luck. I bet Denuvo is doubling down and adding kernel level DRM to all games. Bit worried about what that means for Linux gaming, but I will survive. I've been on Linux for like a decade now, I won't install windows to play some silly games.
Playing it on a Windows VM on Linux with your GPU passed through is probably the safest way to play these hypervisor bypass games.
That shit does not run on Linux
Do you mean Denuvo games in general? Because that's not true
they mean the hypervisor bypass, which at the moment requires windows and turning off basically every security feature
That may be, but using Denuvo is not free, and the more invasive implementations affect performance more, and by extension reviews and system requirements. I don't believe you will see a huge uptick for those reasons alone.
I've just about finished moving over from windows now. It's been nice once I got things behaving.
The HV bypass is a blow to both the industry and piracy. All games are easy to pirate now, but aint no way I'm messing with my machine so much just to pirate those games.
I don't think the situation is practically any worse than before for piracy if you just ignore these bypasses. It's not like there was a huge crowd of crackers ready to take on denuvo before they were pushed out by these bypasses. Proper cracks still depend on basically just that one guy.
It just seems to me, that because it is trivial to crack them with HV, there's less effort to crack them properly.
Games are already a security nightmare. Apex had an RCE in a game with fucking kernel level anticheat.
Fucking think about that.
If you care about privacy or security you should've started playing games in a VM with pass through years ago.
If it doesn't run in a VM it doesn't get played.
98% of gamers dont even understand what you saod here
Playing a game for free is not even remotely worth allowing a bypass to have absolute root access, but maybe this will make companies reconsider whether it's worth paying for Denuvo. Probably not.
Is it better or worse than letting the game have absolute root access? Because that'll no doubt be what Denuvo goes with next...
Neither are okay with me; I don't play games with Denuvo.
I have been waiting for SEGA to make Persona 5 and SMT 5 DRM-free for many years now. IIRC, Persona 5 Royal was $10 a week ago...but still DRM'ed.
Fuck it. I might as well just pirate these things and not give SEGA a dime. They clearly don't want my money, nor respect my desire to be free of rootkits, restrictions, or surveillance. I just want to buy my games and play. ๐
why do people still play/buy games with Denuvo,it reduces your fps anyways.
maybe Denuvo is as bad as Kernel level anticheat.
I'd guess most players aren't even aware. I play a lot of games (though probably none that have this stuff enabled) and before joining Lemmy I'd never even heard of Denuvo. The average user just buys a game and plays it.
yeah
Because modern gaming community believes in ultra-consumerism. "Just buy a $3000 PC to run your $70 AAAA games every 3 years like the rest of us."
Don't forget the โฌ8000 gaming chair, and โฌ4000 custom made in-ear headphones.
And the EA game pass, so you can pay to own nothing.
agreed
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Fps isnt everything
Perhaps. But getting worse fps by buying the official version is pretty silly.
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Finally, the good news I kept scrolling for.
Bout time.
Been out of the loop lately, how much time does it takes them on average to crack a new released game?
It's just a few weeks per game. It has gotten to the point where people are working down the list of uncracked games from the previous years.
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