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[–] misk@piefed.social -2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Correct but irrelevant to what I’ve said, which is that the performance impact of Denuvo is usually minimal. There’s a couple of very bad cases that got a lot of publicity but there’s boatloads of Denuvo games running fine.

It’s cool Denuvo was cracked. It’ll be fixed eventually and the never ending game of cat and mouse continues.

[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's not about performance for me. I'm not paying for a single player offline game that requires internet. I was around for the Spore DRM. That started with 3 activations and having to call EA for more. Even the current 5 activations per day is too restrictive, as I've heard changing proton version counts as an activation. If I don't own it (yes technically you don't steam games, but I think I could easily bypass steam protection and still play my games if it came down to it) I'm not buying it.

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

How is that relevant to anything I’ve said. It’s like this article, „forget what this news is about, let’s dunk on Denuvo”. I guess they know their audience.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 hour ago

article goes into why Denuvo is bad but not much more (which is debatable...

I mentioned why denuvo is bad. I wasn't replying specifically to your argument about performance, because that's only a slice of the reason why denuvo is bad.