Games

i wanted to buy it because i know it will be good.

but ill pirate it instead as soon as its cracked. thanks ill save myself the money, you fucks.

Only way for this to change is to vote with your (virtual) feet and wallet and "cancel" games that have DRM, in my opinion.

Man, they're taking the "dark ages" part seriously.

Eh 70 dollars for 10 hours of repetitive gameplay is bad value anyway.

Seeing this pains me, especially considering Id Software's history with Linux. Prior to being bought by Bethesda, most of Id's games had official native Linux ports. Even Doom 3 had a native Linux port, it doesn't seem to work anymore but there are source ports like Dhewm3 available for it.

Was this before or after this: https://lemmy.world/post/29593011

Because I'm curious why Valve would have gone to so much trouble to make the game run on Linux just to ruin that.

Aside from screwing Linux users, they're also screwing AMD users with forced ray-tracing + broken FSR, and I'd imagine there's also a lot of overlap there.

Fuck Microsoft. They enshittify everything and they support a genocide by helping to select targets to murder. No game is worth supporting this.

Earlier this year, I got a game I liked on steam. Pretty much 3d Rimworld. After playing for 20 hours over a few weeks, I sporadically started getting errors about me having "no hardware activations" left for the game, and how I should wait 24 hours. I have never installed it on any other machine.

It is so very silly that a pirated copy would be the more seamless experience.

All this drm nonsense ever does is punishes the paying customers and maybe delays cracked version by a few days, but fucking pencil pushers still put it into everything.

you aren't buying doom because it has denuvo. im not buying doom because i am boycotting microsoft products. we are probably a little similar

Denuvo identifies a user opening a game with multiple versions of Proton as multiple machines. It thinks that's piracy and locks the user out of the game

Just another reason to wait long after release to buy a game. Denuvo charges games companies to administer the DRM infrastructure and most developers will strip it out of their games after it's been out for a while.

Buying games on launch is one of the most anti-customer experiences you can get. And that's saying something in our wonderful capitalist economy

Yet more evidence that the smartest thing you can do if the game comes from a AAA studio is hold off on buying it for 6-12 months.

I never buy/install games with Denuvo. Guess it will be a while before I'm playing this.

Refund and wait for a crack. Fuck Denuvo and fuck Bethesda for using them