DRM doesn't work in games, go to a torrent site to see all the failed attempts.
1. It costs money
2. It makes the product worse(slower, less portable,etc...) for your _ paying _ customers.
3. It doesn't work if the game is good.
If I understand correctly: If I had been fast enough to buy this domain, I would be able to break Denuvo for a long time?
This should immediately make it legal to apply a crack in my opinion. I hope this is the case.
When games required CDs to run - I had to apply No-CDs. Because CDs were fragile and expensive. When games started to require online DRM - I had to apply No-Steam patches. Because I am rarely online and value my privacy. Even though I legally bought those games, DRM causes so much inconvenience, so I'd actually donate to pirates for making my life easier. News like this prove me right.
> After sending a set of questions to two of our usual contacts at the company, we received a pair of automated emails stating that our correspondence was “undeliverable”, that the messages had been “bounced by administrator” and as a result had permanently failed.
Wtf? What ever happened to journalistic principles like protecting your sources?!
All of my original iPad games also don’t work because Apple refuses to let iOS devices downgrade to run software it was only just using.
Did anyone buy it and replace with a server that just returns “you’re all good!”?
Commoditize your complements strikes back
Has anyone ever done an a analysis on whether Denuvo (or DRM in general) is actually a wise investment of capital? I imagine it probably does have some impact on early sales in that it will prevent early customers from pirating to try it rather than buying it. But at the same time, you have things like Steam's return policy, the general dislike of DRM, and the publicity/image cost when something happens preventing everyone from playing the game. Not to mention that it seems inevitable these days that it either gets cracked or removed by the publisher anyway.
I always wonder if the resources spent on Denuvo would be better spent on the game itself, or marketing the game, allowing the so-inclined to pirate it more easily at launch, but offsetting that with better sales overall driven by better reception, more word of mouth, etc.