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Denuvo is tired of gamers saying its DRM is bad for games (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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""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...

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought this was an onion article.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

Think it would go over well at [email protected], or do you think they'd reject it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

[–] FreshLight 7 points 3 weeks ago

Spot on, bravo!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Option 4: All of the above.