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Denuvo is looking to push pro-DRM propaganda (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everyone calling out Denuvo for being a laggy mess, rejoice! Denuvo is being hurt bad the bad PR enough to launch a full on propaganda war. One such weapon in their arsenal: Giving "trusted" outlets access to both the unDRM and the DRM copies of the game.

Now for anyone who knows game's journalism, you do not bite the hand that feeds you. Your income revolves around being one of the first to the punch when it comes to a review and the only way to be first is to ensure studios like you enough to give you early access copies.

Does anyone here think these outlets are going to say that Denuvo is slow? Not if they ever want that kind of access again! "Trusted" is right. "Trusted" to be in Denuvo's pocket.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Saw a propaganda piece like that a few days ago on Ars Technica. The comments there were pretty much the same as here, "Ah yes, the classic non-answer of saying BS until the person forgets what they asked", in regards to them ignoring the many games' sudden CPU spikes and frame drops caused by denuvo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there a way to tell if a game is using this crap?

EDIT 3: Another auto-updated list of games to avoid that use Denuvo

EDIT: found this list, will leave it here in case someone needs it. (REPORTED TO BE OUTDATED)

EDIT 2: also as they pointed out in the comments (for Steam users) this list is more updated, and if you follow it, it shows you if a game uses denuvo or not when you are browsing a game's store page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For steam, there is also this curator that marks it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's cool but you can't search through it and the way the list is displayed makes it so there is no game title in text so Ctrl+F isn't possible either. Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, you're not. It's for whenever you're browsing games on steam, like the discovery queue or when there's a big sale, it will show up before the description if it has, like this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hard no for me. it is retarded for a product you buy to dictate how you use it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try being a e release engineer and having to use it. It's awful. You have to configure your nodes to connect to their servers and then wait for the "magic". Quite often it would time out and this was for a mega video game studio. Denovo is trash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I still remember Sony rootkiting my PC and fucking up DVD play back