Thread 723548674

>Could defeat us piratechads forever
>But they're such huge kikes they require devs to pay a subscription service to keep it
>So piratechads just have to wait between 6 months and 18 months for denuvo to get taken out

>>723548674 (OP)
Kills hardware sales and ruined /v because without piracy nobody here played anything

>>723548674 (OP)
anon...

>>723548832
Except if you want to play Sega games. Those boomers keep all their games under lock and key. I guarantee you they are burning money on those subscriptions out of stubbornness but Japanese boomer businessmen do be like that sometimes.

>>723548674 (OP)
>makes customers pay for an inferior product than pirates get for free
>does nothing for the customers who have to pay for it
>at best
It's cancer.

>>723549023
Sega making bad financial decision after bad financial decision for 4 decades straight is kino

>>723548674 (OP)
AAA gaming and gaming in general has been turning to shit. Western dev cultural influence in decline (except for indies). Coincidence?

I will agree Denuvo defeated piracy but Russians quickly solved it, you can buy literally every Denuvo game for less than $2.

>>723549353
how?

tick fucking tock denuvo shills

>>723549537
its fucking OVER

>>723549537
Oh, that's neat, so this guy is going around and defeating the old uncracked games that have pretty poor security by today's standards, is that it? That's good. Unironically good for sake of game preservation.

These are probably the other games he's targeting right now. The two he cracked are from 2019.

If he's good enough and the security isn't too tight, it's possible he'll crack the older Sega games as well.

When is TW Warhamemr 3 getting cracked?

>>723549465
theres denuvo activation share services where ppl give you their activations or something.

>>723548674 (OP)
>Piracy is not a problem if you have a good product, a good reputation and are more present at the point of sale than pirates, since that just means that increased piracy results in increased marketing and more sales
>There will always be pirates, but losing a portion of the total projected profit of taking full release MSRP adjusted for inflation from everyone who plays your game is also always going to happen
DRM has always just been copium for failing publishing companies that lets them shift the blame without actually changing anything or declaring that their business model doesn't work, it just keeps investors on board for slightly longer by dangling a fix in front of them.
Denuvo is only being used by failing companies and companies that want to cover up their failure, because DRM that is this invasive is only really suited to silencing word of mouth.

>>723549465
you can simply buy accounts with an activated game for 5$

>>723549353
But does that solve any of the actual problems with denuvo?
Protip, it's not the price that matters.

>>723548674 (OP)
Steam fixed it already

>>723548674 (OP)
I'd say games rarely releasing and then being shit when they finally do solved piracy more than anything else

>>723549039
So how does that work anyways? Is it just a massive scam?

>>723549023
I honestly refuse to believe Sega doesn't have an agreement that lets them use it forever with no extra cost or maybe Sega's subscription covers all their games instead of being on a game by game basis. Not even they're dumb enough to keep Denuvo on the EO collection when they fucked up and released it without by accident day one, it's a waste of money and would cancel out any profit they'd get from such a niche series.

>>723548674 (OP)
>bricks your pc

>solves piracy
>doesn't actually make the game better

>>723551675
They share activations.

>>723548674 (OP)
https://hydralauncher.gg/
>pirates even have their on launchers now
if pirates figure out how to automate the updating process (i know its a minor non issue) will it be over for us buysisters?

>>723551930
>EO collection
you do know they fucked up and released a version without denuvo on day 1. they quickly released a patch to add it back in but obviously it was too late and so it's been available to pirate since day 1

>>723548674 (OP)
There is not a game with denuvo that I can think I want to play, oh yeah the dlc of resident evil 4. Meh...

Notice that the goty and best sellers never had denuvo... weird.

>>723551930
They are that dumb. It's Sega we're talking about. And they're the only developer that does it. There's no reason why they'd pick them to get an exclusive contract.

>>723548674 (OP)
All it did was make things worse

>>723548674 (OP)
browns in suicide watch

>>723556909
It is weird given that you're wrong

Order.a drink

>>723548674 (OP)
>piracy is costing is thousands in sales
>how will we solve this problem?
>spend thousands every months on anti-piracy software
>to stop people who wouldn't buy the game in the first place from playing it
Denuvo honestly seems like a net loss considering how expensive it is to subscribe to.

still no fft crack :(

>>723559219
>https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-x443idlstvufi
About 25k a month, but for big companies they can probably negotiate.

>>723559743
Thats what I mean. Piracy is proven to have minimal to no effect on sales. A year of denuvo costs like $300k. So is denuvo REALLY saving them the same as it costs?

>>723559936
The companies that use it see every person who pirates as a lost sale, so if they see 10,000 people pirate a $60 game thats $600,000 lost in their eyes. Of course we know that pirates probably wouldn't have bought the game but companies/shareholders are retarded.

All you need is a bank account with some cash in it and you can rent denuvo games for a month, you don't even lose money.

>>723548674 (OP)
doesn't it slow your pc down?

>>723560119
It is retarded. Pirates won't buy the game if it's locked behind denuvo - they just won't play it. It's not like there aren't entire lifetimes worth of other games to be played. Companies are out here burning money for no reason. I could maybe understand denuvo for the first month, but after that it's pointless.