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""I think it's super hard for a gamer," Ullmann tells Rock Paper Shotgun. "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about. I think it's super hard to see, as a gamer, what is the immediate benefit for me that a certain game developer, game publisher, is using our anti-piracy services." This gap, coupled with the fact that Denuvo "simply works" and "pirates cannot play games" which use it, as Ullmann puts it, are two main contributors to its negative reputation, he argues."

Let's not forget about being always-online or not being able to test different wine/Proton setups for fear of activating the DRM. Or even trying simply to run the game in some situations...

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Denuvo Games Curator Gives a great and clear indicator so there's no way you could possibly buy one by accident, like the trolls keep trying to argue will happen.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

unless you buy a game that later adds denuvo, of course

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thankfully it doesn't happen very often and if a game is out for a long while it's a safe bet it very likely won't be added. If they do though that curator still helps because it makes it more visible on the store page, so you can give a negative review, block its updates, and downgrade to a previous version without it (whether that's officially through Steam's downgrade tools, or downloading it elsewhere depends on the circumstance). Or remove it from your account if you don't care about it anymore.

[–] mogranja 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't steam allow refunds regardless of hours played for some game that did this recently?

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure, I guess it would depend on the game, and whether or not it was badly affected enough by the update for Valve to consider it broken by the update.

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