This user is a hero for telling people about how easy it is to pirate this game.
Like obviously he'd be instantly nuked if he just said "bro there's no DRM, just pirate it" so he's framed it as a complaint instead. Genius.
Seriously, without DRM it will be available at https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=123255 within a few hours of its release. We can't let that happen.
dang why didn't they add the DRM so pirates would have to wait 8 hours instead of 1 hour????
Unfortunately these complex VM-based HWID-bound licensing schemes (pretty much just the one named above) are quite a pain in the ass to reverse engineer these days. At present there's only one person doing so publicly, about a dozen and change who've cracked it at all in total.
It's not like the old days anymore, unfortunately our salvation won't be through technology when it comes to preserving games and software. We'd need some economic bloc to realize the danger of DRM for preservation and move to actually ban its use. At the very least, require DRM-free binaries for all public builds, or ideally source code, and code for running dedicated servers etc be filed with the copyright office for release after something becomes abandonware. Most areas have some office that could oversee the processing of requests, LoC's office or something. That's the bare minimum that could be done.
Empress is pretty damn good at cracking these, she's a borderline genius at it. Unfortunately, she's also kinda nuts.
Looks like it's unlocked now. Which yeah the mod said they'd unlock once cracks were available. So the lock was basically to prevent spam of "is there a crack yet"?
guys this game has no DRM, i hope no one pirates it :owl-wink:
big chance my dude was fishing for clown badges, they give you steam points for this shit
Absolutely, up until this post I had only ever seen G*mers screeching about the performance issues that come with Denuvo.
There was like 2 weeks of hair-tearing drama over it with Total War: Warhammer
, and the game didn't even actually use it.Warhammer 3 definitely uses Denuvo, I'm not sure what you're on about.
Oh shit you're absolutely right that it is on WH3
however
I’m not sure what you’re on about.
Does this apply to the assessment that the discourse surrounding Denuvo is largely criticism of how it affects performance?
Or is this just in regards to the WH3 example?
Mostly just WH3, but Denuvo does cause performance issues. It's not on all games and it's certainly overblamed but there have been multiple examples of convincingly demonstrated performance drops.
Ah god damn it. He got arrested for CP.
https://old.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/5c483n/bob_magrann_the_man_who_played_gabe_newell_in_the/
I can't tell if I'm a bigger or lesser loser for being just as online as him but without being hooked by gamification.
"If this game doesnt kill my Cpu by using it at 100% constantly, im not gonna buy it"
This is (a) barely intelligible and (b) totally bullshit.
Piracy has near-zero impact on the bottom line of a game. The most prevalent pirates are just people who can't afford the sticker prices. DRM generally sucks and doesn't work. The industry is swimming in cash and even terrible games make back multiples of what they cost to produce. The biggest hurdle for indie developers isn't piracy, its exposure. Everyone's struggling to be seen. If nobody's pirating your game, that's usually a sign that nobody actually wants it.
it's pretty well known at this point that people almost exclusively pirate things they wouldn't pay for (at that price.)
piracy is solely a reflection of how many people are interested in your thing, but not at the price you're selling it for.
as you say, if they couldn't pirate it, people wouldn't buy it instead. they don't want it at that price.
"They need to force me to buy a shittier version of this or else I'm going to steal it" :galaxy-brain:
Someone was payed to write that, right? People aren't that cucked by corporations... right?
The DRM will be the patches.
As I swear having the 0-day of a pc game does more against piracy than anything else.
Gotta have the 2 month later crack to enjoy a game.
This is the first time I've ever seen someone say anything like this.
This person MUST work for Denuvo.
Not only have I never met anyone who is pro-DRM, Denuvo itself is absolutely terrible software that has a long history of messing up games.
Need a sarcasm/troll bot with an accompanying spiel for half the posts on this site.
I had to believe this is satire . The common stance is the opposite of this
