““I think it’s super hard for a gamer,” Ullmann tells Rock Paper Shotgun. “I’m a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I’m talking about. I think it’s super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit for me that a certain game developer, game publisher, is using our anti-piracy services.” This gap, coupled with the fact that Denuvo “simply works” and “pirates cannot play games” which use it, as Ullmann puts it, are two main contributors to its negative reputation, he argues.”
Let’s not forget about being always-online or not being able to test different wine/Proton setups for fear of activating the DRM. Or even trying simply to run the game in some situations…
“I’m a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I’m talking about”
Should we call it a fallacious call to authority, meme on it for being a “how do you do, fellow gamers” moment, or simply mock the guy for whoring himself out in favor of daddy corporate? I could write an essay on the ways this is an absurd statement.
Gamers hate Denuvo because it doesn’t “simply work”. It limits paying customers from accessing their content, bogs down mid-range machines that are already overtaxxed by poor optimization and, in admittedly uncommon cases, full on breaks some games until patches and fixes roll out. Stop pretending that “gamers” are out here rioting because they’re too cheap and immoral to pay for content. Quit your fuckin’ lying.
What’s crazy is that it’s more than that.
“I’m a gamer so I know what I’m talking about, that gamers know nothing about this topic.”
The logic is very backwards.
I thought this was an onion article.
Well I’m a game dev myself and drm is bullshit. Denuvo can get fucked
Too bad you’re not a gamer like Denuvonian Man, you’d know a thing or two about games.
and we’re tired of Denuvo lol
Hm. I wonder why gamers say that.
Denuvo and every employee there can suck my hairy, unshaven, sweaty, salty, moist, oily ball sack.
I’m a gamer, therfore I know what I’m talking about. Denuvo is SHIT!
Denuvo’s DRM is bad for games.
DRM is shite by itself as well.
Its simple.
Pirates don’t ruin games for other players.
Pirates ruin games for the dealers.
Pirates mostly enhance games, in my experience
Not necessarily even that. Piracy can benefit the developer by increasing popularity. Piracy made Bill Gates a billionaire despite his fighting tooth and nails against it.
Denuvo rhymes with “fuck you, no.”
Too bad. Denuvo sucks.
Gravity is tired of humans saying it causes things to fall down.
well… it doesn’t. Mass bends space-time which is the reason why things appear to fall. Einstein figured that out a long time ago.
Is that the phenomenon commonly known as “gravity”?
It’s like Jimmy Neutron calling salt sodium chloride lol
