Denuvo strikes again!

  • paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Should every game be forced to support your chosen platform? I don’t see Mac users acting like this.

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        2 months ago

        I’m not supporting any particular game or constellation of software. Just noticing the entitlement in the thread, and across Lemmy.

        When people act entitled to pirate something, that’s when I think things are off the rails. They act like it’s their right to obtain other peoples work.

        Invasive DRM is shitty. And it’s a bummer software does not easily work on all platforms. But no one is automatically entitled to a copy of someone else’s labor.

        You know who else acts entitled to copies of other people’s labor? The AI companies.

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      2 months ago

      This isn’t even a platform issue per se, windows user complain just as much about denuvo, allbeit for different reasons.

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        2 months ago

        They do, but this is a compatibility problem first and foremost. And as a Mac user since the 90s, that’s glaringly obvious to me.

        It sucks that DRM is the wrench in the gears of Proton. But the game doesn’t have official support.

        • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          Did you even read the article? This is a matter of limiting the number of times a licensed user can authenticate their copy of the game within a day (based on hardware/software IDs).

          It has nothing to do with OS compatibility. It can be recreated on windows machines by spoofing hardware IDs or even - god forbid - changing certain driver installs too many times.

          It’s to stop pirates from using one a legit activation ‘key’ to provide the game to others. Which is funny because they’ve found a way to extract the denuvo ‘key’ from a demo and spoof full game denuvo access for other games.