EMPRESS has promised to crack the game within 10 days. Given her track record, I'm inclined to believe her, she is the only known person able to crack Denuvo, and she's good at it. So if you must play it, wait a few days and pirate it.

  • Abstraction [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I will go one step further than saying you don't have to reveal yourself, if you want to play the game then at least shut up about it forever

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      2 years ago

      if you want to play the game then at least shut up about it forever

      No, if the actual gameplay isn't actively painful or the story mind-numbingly mediocre, I'm gonna play it and tell everyone how awful the games writing is.

      We might be approaching COD-levels of "If you just describe what is happening, most people will think it's satire".

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        the story mind-numbingly mediocre

        yeah about that...

        https://hexbear.net/post/249896

        • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          See though, that doesn’t sound like mind-numbingly mediocre, that sounds like fascinatingly awful. I want to see the trainwreck and go “look at this garbage fire wtf is going on”

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      I will go one step further and say if you want to play the game, you deserve to be ridiculed online by your comrades and also you are a :LIB:

  • 4tnGameDev [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I'm hoping to be able to release my first indie game this year (no ETA) and I have absolutely no plans for any DRM at all.

  • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think there's an interesting dynamic going on that people sort of ignore. That JK Rowling is a 'monopolist' in a sense. Capitalists have uncheked power over our culture. If you happen to like the basic premise of Harry Potter, odds are that whatever is being produced falls under JK Rowling's estate. There's no escaping it.

    I read HP as a kid like most everybody else in this generation and I never cared much for the characters. I just like cooky magic fantasy like that, especially when it blends with the real world. Over time I came to realize just how dumb JK's world building really is. And I don't even mean the goblin revolution stuff. But the temptation is still there.

    So all support to EMPRESS in her fight against the cancer that is denuvo. Some people's computers shouldn't go up in flames.

    PS god i love when chuds are like wait i bought 20 copies of a game that has transexual characters in it??? jesus christ warner brother's marketing team are the dukes of hell.

    • ElmLion [any]
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      2 years ago

      Intellectual Property is theft. Democratize Harry Potter and make a new, community-owned canon.

    • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The Harry Potter thing is coming to switch weirdly enough. No idea how it's going to possibly run on it, but supposedly coming this summer

      • macabrett
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        2 years ago

        Probably as a cloud streaming game. That's how most third party AAA games are on switch.

        • call_me_ishmael [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          naw, have a friend who's working for the studio tasked with making the port. He hates it, but it'll run.

          • macabrett
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            2 years ago

            Damn, that's wild. Reviews claim it has performance issues on modern consoles and PC.

          • macabrett
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            2 years ago

            Yeah but like... how many third party AAA games are on switch? It's mostly just games from the last generation.

  • GoebbelsDeezNuts [any]
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    2 years ago

    I repeat:

    I can’t wait to :snipes-hesitation: unfollow every twitch streamer who decides to play it. Hasan included.

    My followed channels list has needed to be culled for a while now, I can't watch all of these people. At least this will make it easy.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    Based Empress taking a big spoon to WB's profit margins :sicko-fem:

  • berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I love playing modern AAA games, I love uncreative action elements that play the same exact way as every other modern game, I love needless RPG elements that add little to actual gameplay because the game isn't actually based around them in any substantial way, I love bright shiny visuals surrounding a story about how minorities just need to shut up and obey. I'm so excited to play this game. So happy for this new slop and not boring things like Paper Mario or Baba is You or Pentiment or all those other bland games that just try to pretend they're different.

    /s hopefully not needed

    • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]
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      2 years ago

      i actually downloaded pentiment the other day it looks really cool. i'm still working hard to avoid getting my picture taken in inscryption currently tho

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I’m excited to play it the same way I watched the Fantastic Beasts movies - Stolen, and while drinking heavily with my partner and making fun of the trainwreck on our screen.

    Mocking especially bad movies and games is so fun for me. Secrets of Dumbledore was so fun to watch because it was possibly the worst movie I’ve ever fucking seen.

  • Esoteir [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Critical support in her war against Denuvo, but you really don't have to hand it to EMPRESS beyond that, folks

    CW: racism, ableism, homophobia, misogyny

    like hurrah for people who want to play the transphobic wizard game but the crack will inevitably have some 4chan-tier slur filled rant platformed on it :cringe:

    • hypercube [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      "Yes, I am running a cult. There is both small & big communities. The big one is top secret for future purposes, and I keep it hidden from everyone. While the small one is basically my "Family". Those who want to join my cult, you know the secret way in, just contact "Ms.Nora", she runs the community for me, and she will get you sorted. If you don't know who she is or where you can find her, then you better stay out." impressive that this is one of the less unhinged paragraphs she's written

  • booty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    it was very satisfying the other day when a lib friend of mine was like "so can we talk about hogwarts legacy?" and i was just like "absolutely not, fuck off" and no one else responded and we just moved on lmao