The eyepatch-wearing community is patting itself on the back, with known repacker FitGirl congratulating the collective efforts of DenuvOwO and voices38, as good an endorsement as they come within that crowd. It's also an implicit seal of approval for the relative security of the releases in question, as FitGirl is widely trusted as a release curator.
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beyondlogic Honestly this is just pathetic denuvo has no real benefit apart from being a royal hindrance to hardware. Maybe they should develop a engine with better security features not punish normal users for there own bad choices. And a online safety check is nonsense and essentially tells the user you own nothing as what happens when the servers that do these checks don't work I've already seen this nonsense with fable 3 with windows live nonsense. Reply
MrN8 I have been a PC gamer all the way back to the C64 days. Game piracy was common for decades but just before the pandemic, piracy was almost gone. For a while, games were starting to be reasonably priced and gamers were content to pay rather than risk pirated copies and the security risks they posed. Then the greed of the gaming industry went into overdrive. Now games cost double what they used to and are often a massively buggy experience. Piracy is on the rise again but it is the industry's own fault. Game companies pushing poorly optimized social engineering experiments on gamers for top dollar. They are getting what they deserve. Reply
Sh00P00Mag00 MrN8 said: I have been a PC gamer all the way back to the C64 days. Game piracy was common for decades but just before the pandemic, piracy was almost gone. For a while, games were starting to be reasonably priced and gamers were content to pay rather than risk pirated copies and the security risks they posed. Then the greed of the gaming industry went into overdrive. Now games cost double what they used to and are often a massively buggy experience. Piracy is on the rise again but it is the industry's own fault. Game companies pushing poorly optimized social engineering experiments on gamers for top dollar. They are getting what they deserve. Back then games only cost a few quid but we still pirated them. It was the thrill of it i guess. These days I buy second hand keys to play games that are now a few years old. They're still new to me but I point blank refuse to pay top dollar for zero day purchases. It's like these kids that pay a fortune for a 240hz monitor. Just no need. Then again, they don't live in the real world with bills to pay etc. 💀 Reply
Math Geek if you wait a couple years, not only will it be very cheap, but they'll have the "complete edition" with all the DLC and such included. with a sale easily less than $10 most of the time. from what i see only EA likes to keep all that expensive DLC separate. the base game might be dirt cheap or even free, but there will still be $100 in DLC to get. so yah screw EA lol Reply
parkerthon Sh00P00Mag00 said: It's like these kids that pay a fortune for a 240hz monitor. Just no need. Then again, they don't live in the real world with bills to pay etc. 💀 Yeah I am 46, but I bought a 1440p 480hz OLED monitor about a year and half ago. I have a budget and this pushed it, but I am on this PC non-stop and it's worth every penny. I only play 6 hours a week, do work on it about 40-50. I would never go back to any other panel type. Backlight glow sucks for so many reasons. Higher refresh rate is nice up to 120hz or so and after that it loses any additional benefit for me. I don't play online competitive FPSs so that little bit of fractional millisecond latency reduction by playing at an ugly 1080p, mid detail, with high frames is not of interest to me whatsoever. With a 5070 Ti, I push 100+ fps for 1440p native in most games I play and its silky smooth for my old eyes trying to keep up with fast panning camera action and dark scenes actually look pitch dark. Reply
parkerthon Admin said: Denuvo has been bypassed in all single-player, non-VR games it previously protected with the widely-publicized hypervisor bypass. Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected — 2K Games and Denuvo reportedly retaliate with mandatory 14-day online… : Read more 2K sucks on PC anyway. Also EA Sports games in general are just cash cows. They stripped basic offline single player and couch coop gameplay features out that used to make these games have real value only to push their online play and loot box crap. Or non-stop DLCs… pick your poison. They are a service with a gambling hook, not a game you ever own to play a sport you follow(or want your kids to follow). I mean to a certain point I get it. The amount of money they are paying for player NIL, teams, league licensing etc every year… it's absurd. It's like these pro sports don't get that so many people learn about the sport by playing it in a video game first. It comes back to them in the form of more viewership and direct revenue IRL, but they want their money up front I guess to the detriment of converting less fans over time. Reply
DRagor I'm not sure what this '14 day online check' is. It sounds like when you buy game you have to wait 2 weeks before you can start playing it or what? In that case gaming industry is shooting itself again, just making pirates win again. Reply
Lamarr the Strelok DRagor said: I'm not sure what this '14 day online check' is. It sounds like when you buy game you have to wait 2 weeks before you can start playing it or what? In that case gaming industry is shooting itself again, just making pirates win again. I think you'll have to verify it when first bought then again in 14 days. I'm just glad I'm done with rockstar and especially 2k. Truly dirtbag people and company. And EA will get worse.Take a look at who is gonna buy them soon.(pending approval of course.) Reply
MrN8 DRagor said: I'm not sure what this '14 day online check' is. It sounds like when you buy game you have to wait 2 weeks before you can start playing it or what? In that case gaming industry is shooting itself again, just making pirates win again. I think the purpose of the 14 day online check is twofold. Firstly they want to block access to the flood of people who will be using the new Denuvo cracking trick. Secondly they will want to count and record IPs of all attempts to launch their games that fail the online check to see how much damage it is doing to their sales. They will likely cross reference the IPs with their current client database to see how many paying customers just stopped paying and turned to piracy instead. It looks to me like they are trying to put a financial figure on how much this crack has cost them. This is the first steps for them to take legal action against someone if they have the evidence. Reply
Buzdalys Sh00P00Mag00 said: Back then games only cost a few quid but we still pirated them. It was the thrill of it i guess. These days I buy second hand keys to play games that are now a few years old. They're still new to me but I point blank refuse to pay top dollar for zero day purchases. It's like these kids that pay a fortune for a 240hz monitor. Just no need. Then again, they don't live in the real world with bills to pay etc. 💀 1 – monitors are affordable now 2 – not everyone lives from paycheck to paycheck; yes, everything is expensive, but having a 240hz monitor doesn't mean you're filthy rich, just that you earn enough and are willing to spend ONE TIME on a monitor that will last several years 3 – saying "these kids" literally makes you sound like a teenager, just cringe 4 – your "real world" may be gray but that doesn't mean everyone else's also doesn't have colors; stop being so ignorant Reply
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