PAYDAY 3 will use Denuvo anti-piracy technology in its PC version

I like to use Denuvo as an indicator of a bad release. For someone with over 3k hours on PAYDAY 2, I just cancelled my preorder.

Thank you for the fun times OVERKILL, sad to see you go this way.

Denuvo has become a very strong indicator to me that not the game devs are calling the shots during development, but the Excel-sheet-business-suit-monkeys are.

Only some business-fool would look at a proposal to buy that piece of performance-guzzling crap and go "Hey, then everyone who'd be a pirate otherwise will buy my product and spend money in muh cash shop, that's totally worth the investment", ignoring the immense drawbacks for paying costumers.

especially in a frickin' coop-shooter where piracy will never be as big of a deal because people want to play together with others on your frickin' servers anyway....

Bro who tf is stealing Payday let alone to play alone. What a waste of money and a fuck you to paying customers.

Isn't the game going to be online only in the first place? They're adding DRM on top of their DRM?

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Adding DRM to a co-op game is one of the stupidest things you can do. The only thing I can think of that would be worse would be adding DRM to a game that is already always-online.

"Payday 3 guarantees an objecticely worse user experience at launch on pc version"

Golden Rule: Denuvo games exist if and only if cracked by EMPRESS

seems like a great way to punish honest people every time they try to play your game and mildly inconvenience pirates for about a week

The price of this game makes it one you should definitely be a patient gamer on. Not only will you save a ton of money but it'll probably be Denuvo free eventually too.

Welp, looks like yet another great game series falls to the corpotards inchagre. Was already skeptical of Deep Silver taking over and this is kinda the nail in the coffin.

Oh, this game’s gonna have a rough launch won’t it?

It'll be on game pass so I'll probably still test it out, but I really don't get why a Payday game would need anti-piracy measures since the whole point is to play co-op

guess what game i will never play even if i wanted to my os kinda dosen't do kernel pevel drm

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It's probably unlikely to happwn soon but in that case the only right answer is piracy once they found a way around this shit again!

The constant updates and online features were reason enough to not pirate payday 2 tbh. This is no good. Just lost a customer. Sad

Good to know I should download the free version instead

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Multi-decade old history repeating itself. This will only harm people who actually waste their money

So no mods then? Goodbye

It look like the drm isn't here to protect the game but the microtransaction system. This greedy 40$ freemium system remind me ovewatch...

Damn, and I i was actually excited for this game. Oh well, maybe in a couple years they'll remove it and then it can be seen a viable product.

Franchise died to me after they promised no microtransaction then months later made it worse than a gatcha game.

Good implementations of Denuvo have such a minimal impact on the quality of the game experience that I tend towards optimism when I hear this kind of news. That said, bad implementations of Denuvo cripple the game in a way that previous horrible DRM schemes could only dream of. I'm not planning on playing Payday 3 (I never had any fun with 1 or 2), but I hope that this is the former situation for its fans.

Boooo.

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That's going to be a No from me dog.

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Damnit.

Not forever.. its a monthly fee, to denuvo, so they all end up removing it eventually

As usual, any announcement of Denuvo in a PC game is met with immediate ire, ostensibly from the gaming community. But you already knew that Denuvo doesn't affect performance unless it's configured to make an extreme amount of checks, and it definitely doesn't ruin hard drives. You wouldn't share reactionary misinformation would you?

Be honest. You just hate that pirating the game is going to be more difficult.