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[+] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately my hardware is too old to play games that are like that.

But I've noticed the same with mobile games. My policy is: if that single player game doesn't start without internet access it gets deleted.

[–] samus12345 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They denuvo the shit out of their games, so it's actually pretty hard to pirate them nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

AC Origins player here, made the switch to pirate version cause it's Denuvoless and works fully offline, without CPU spikes/frame drops. RAM usage also decreased a little.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why would pirates do this?

[–] Imgonnatrythis 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They are all communists that want to steal your children.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's my gender. I didn't pay for this clipart.

A trans pride flag with a sickle and hammer beneath a skull and crossbones

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

/me clutches pearls

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Man, I wish. The problem nowadays is that denuvo is actually effective - many titles that are rather popular but have denuvo DRM haven't been cracked for years at this point, so the only practical choice is to wait for years until those game companies stop their contract subscriptions and DRM gets removed.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

Welcome to [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

And its 89% off on steam. I consider that a win.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

DRM just slows down how many people pirate stuff by making it non-trivial. If piracy was extremely simple and completely without risk everyone would be doing it, which in turn would start to cause harmful effects that they justify all anti-piracy stuff. I dont think corporations see it that way though, they are likely just bunch of idiots that want to squeeze even more from us.

Not defending drms or generally any anti-piracy stuff, but humanity might not be quite ready for 100% free information. Hopefully it will eventually happen though. All of you are fighting for our freedom by not giving up on this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

DRM employed by streaming services has never made it less trivial to download new movies and shows. I can still get all the shows and movies I want just minutes after they release on streaming. DRM just hurts paying customers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol. 🤣 This genuinely had me lmao. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Does anyone have this meme template?