PAYDAY 3 will use Denuvo anti-piracy technology in its PC version
PAYDAY 3 will use Denuvo anti-piracy technology in its PC version
PAYDAY 3 is one of the most anticipated cooperative titles of this 2023 that will allow us to enjoy alone or accompanied by friends (or other players) a lot
The official Steam page for Deep Silver and Starbreeze’s PAYDAY 3 game has been updated to show the use of this ever-controversial third-party 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!
I think we're down to only 1, maybe 2 people that can crack Denuovo. One of them is a raging psychopath lol
I think in the end Denuovo is going to win. :(
Nah... in the end, indie developers and people who don't want to blow 70+ on an unfinished poorly optimized pile of shit with Denuvo icing will win.
If a DRM model actually works and can protect day/week/quarter/year one sales, plenty of indie devs and the like will pay for a license to insure their profits for that period.
And, regardless of what the internet claims, implemented correctly (so not checking on every frame update like some games do...), denuvo is completely transparent to the end user (maybe less so now that steam decks are a thing...). And the issues with authentication servers going down or licenses not refreshing mostly go way if it is removed with a patch a day/week/quarter/year in to the life cycle of the game. Which I would assume devs want to do anyway to stop paying for denuvo licenses?
The lesson we failed to learn from The DRM Wars of the 2000s is that piracy and "boycotts" don't make DRM go away. Because it just takes one uncrackable game (I remember Mass Effect PC being a great example of this) to send ALL the pirates to the store. Because if you haven't been buying your other games, getting the one you want for full price from the kid at Best Buy is easy.
The reality is that, much like what CDP/GoG said back in the day, it is about convenience. Steam put the fear of god into people (get caught pirating and you lose all your games!) and provided a(n honestly pretty invasive) DRM solution while encouraging consumers to "just buy it". But, over time, that has proven to not be enough as more people realize how easy it is to bypass steam DRM and third party solutions are desired again.
And we are going to see the third party solutions as well as regional restrictions (which DRM also helps with) as more and more people shift back to piracy and exploiting cdkeys and the like for regional pricing exploits.
I don't really give a shit if it goes away.
I'm boycotting to save myself from more BSODs and bad performance, (even ABZU refused to run right on my computer and most of my MGS5 playtime was wrestling with getting things working and putting in validation numbers), and my backlog—like I'm sure most gamers' is—is full of stuff to play without Denuvo.
Plus, there's a weird (little but there) overlap of stuff that has Denuvo... keeps Denuvo... and gets launched on Gog and others without any DRM included... so, even the "surely they'll patch it out" idea doesn't hold water either.
It's actually the other way around historically speaking, more DRM and locking down causes people to care less. The latest Darknet Diaries episode is about Team Xecuter, I think you would really enjoy that one! ;)
Honestly, good. It's made devs want to release on PC again.
It's now the price of GPUs that's really holding it back.
Dev's don't want Denuovo. Publishers or more specifically Investors want Denuovo cause they don't understand or care what the end users want or how it negatively impacts them to have intrusive DRM. On their little power point, it says Denuovo saves them money, and that makes them happy. Even when that couldn't be further from the truth.