- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
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Thou Shall Not Preorder
Good. Preordering games is the dumbest fucking concept. People need to stop doing this.
But what if they run out of digital copies?
I will potentially not buy it then.
How many times do we have to teach these companies this lesson? Anti-piracy DRM never stops pirates, it only causes harm to legitimate paying customers. Pirates get the objective better experience playing a game with DRM removed because they not only get the game for free, but it performs better than the version people pay for. Why pay money for something that is objectively worse than getting it for free?
To be fair denuvo is really effective.
It usually takes a long ass time for denuvo games to get cracked if at all.
Last I checked there were only two people cracking denuvo, one who only likes football games and one really crazy lady.
Also the lack of piracy is most important for publishers around launch and that’s reflected in denuvo’s pricing which IIRC increases substantially after a year or two (this is a fairly recent change)
So more games have started to remove Denuvo after a while after launch.
Before they changed it, I believe the publishers got to keep Denuvo at no extra cost if they didn’t change the game or something but now it gets more expensive the further from launch you go
Nobody’s teaching these companies any lessons. They keep using Denuvo because it works, and the games keep selling because the number of people actually bothered by it is pretty small.
Source needed for it actually working to reduce piracy. It’s possible, but I’m gonna need sources since we know from history that simply providing a better product does more to increase sales and reduce piracy than anything else. People are willing to pay when they get their money’s worth. The ones that don’t, weren’t going to pay anyway, so there’s no actual lost sale.
It just makes the bean counters feel better and help justify their position.
It’s not really clear if working DRM increases sales. But most Denuvo games don’t get cracked, so it definetly prevents most piracy.
Denuvo specifically is only cracked consistently by like three people. A turbo racist, a trans woman, and a dude who only cracks the newest sports games.
Oh has she been confirmed to be trans? Last I heard she was full insane terf. Unless I’m thinking of the turbo racist and missed some scandals.
Idk if confirmed trans but she’s also not had the best political takes recently …
It seems cracking denuvo comes with some insane change to your psyche cause nobody that can do it is normal lol
Does fitgirl do any cracking? I thought she was just a repacker.
Empress? Turbo racist. There is another person who cannot crack it as consistently but can do it pretty well.
I’m gonna wait for the platinum ultimate mega collector’s anthology edition at a 90% discount after 7 years.
I guess I’ll keep playing Civ 5, then?
Unciv is an open source version of Civ V that works on Android and PC, if you really want to lose some hours
Mobile games on PC… No thanks.
I have it on Android, it feels more like a PC game ported to Android. I quite enjoyed it.
Unciv
A real Civ game that runs on my phone? Well, damnit, my poops are about to become 3 hour marathons.
I realized it had community mods available that fill in all the missing tech and countries from the expansions/DLC, installed them, blinked and suddenly the sun was rising?
i mean civ is never really worth buying until they put out a complete edition with all the features they removed so they could slowly sell them back to you as dlc.
Try unciv
