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Ubisoft just added Denuvo to Assassins Creed Mirage via a day-1 patch a few minutes ago. AFTER all the major reviews went online. (meta.masto.host)
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[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago

Sounds like they added it after the review embargo ended but before the game releases to the public.

[-] gila@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

You're right, according to Ubi the update on PC was 'included in the 41.6 GB game files ahead of Oct 5'. It was a prerelease patch, not day 1.

Nice of Epic to start directly exploiting the lack of PC physical media around the same time people are talking about getting rid of disc drives on consoles.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Epic? This is Ubisoft.

[-] gila@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the primary method of PC sales for this game is on the Epic Game Store. Yeah I neglected to consider it's also available from Ubisoft+ or whatever but also does anyone actually use that

Epic Game Store also doesn't have any preloading, meaning they had all the opportunity to deploy Denuvo pre-launch but post-embargo without having preloads as a loose end.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

So time for those reviewers to send their version.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

๐Ÿ˜‚ yeah if they want to get blacklisted and sued.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago

Unless each review copy is internally flagged, I wouldnt expect anyone to own up to leaking the copy to even risk being sued.

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