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[-] Gabadabs@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say that it's evil, but rather it doesn't exist for the benefit of players, it exists for the benefit of corporations. They know that it hurts performance in games and prevents a lot of people from playing games that they've legitimately purchased, but so long as it's preventing some piracy they do not care.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Except it doesn't prevent any piracy. Pirates strip the DRM away within hours or days, and then the game runs better for the pirates than the paying customers.

So, you have a small window of the game being "protected" but that's the same window that people on the fence ab out the game wouldn't have bought it anyway.

[-] Atheran@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, 162 days and counting for dead space.

Doesn't make me want to buy it, without trying it out first, but saying hours to days for denuvo is..a joke really. Sure there were a couple of games that were cracked in a couple of days, but that's a handful of them in the last 6 years or so. Most take a long, long time.

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