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Everyone is entitled to do as he or she pleases. I choose just not to support horrible practices like Denuvo. DRM is one thing. Invasive and performance hindering DRM is another. There's a better way for consumers to be satisfied and for publishers to protect their bottom line. Just not like this.
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Paperchampion23
DRM (PROGRAMS, not an in game method) always hinders performance and sometimes (edit: Almost always actually) doesn't let you play games offline. It's an actual hindrance to PC gaming. There is literally no benefit from it as a player.
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AnGer-dono
I presume he wants the physical edition for collecting purposes. Though what might happen is if they use the same method they used with NieR: Automata is that he has to insert the Disc and then use a menu to generate the Steam code. My copy of Final Fantasy Type-0 though has a Steam code inside.
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CloudBuster
You are entirely missing the point. It's a perfect example to prevent pirating. Serious Sam 3 adds in an unkillable/broken enemy that ruins the game for you if it detects any sort of pirated copy or method.
DRM programs are absolutely useless. All developers need to do is just break the game (their own form of DRM) in some stupid way (prevent the user from attacking/make enemies unkillable, ect) to prevent pirating measures, not employ an anti-pirating program which does nothing for you when you legally bought the game already.
DRM programs are absolutely useless. All developers need to do is just break the game (their own form of DRM) in some stupid way (prevent the user from attacking/make enemies unkillable, ect) to prevent pirating measures, not employ an anti-pirating program which does nothing for you when you legally bought the game already.
https://lokton.tumblr.com/tagged/Final-Fantasy-XV
the magazine gladio loves to read
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the cards from platinum demo/tent
it reads "Fabula Nova Crystallis" on the red card, and i think "Etro" on the first one (yeah each one has a different mark, first is Etro, second Pulse and third Lindzei, all written in their respective alphabet); this is the same deck of cards used in XIII-2.
funny that the lady in white (guess that's one representation of Etro) is so alike to ghost Luna.
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here's a possible translation for each card if you're interested.
the magazine gladio loves to read
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
the cards from platinum demo/tent
it reads "Fabula Nova Crystallis" on the red card, and i think "Etro" on the first one (yeah each one has a different mark, first is Etro, second Pulse and third Lindzei, all written in their respective alphabet); this is the same deck of cards used in XIII-2.
funny that the lady in white (guess that's one representation of Etro) is so alike to ghost Luna.
edit:
here's a possible translation for each card if you're interested.
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It’s an anti piracy measure that has very little impact on players, but has big benefits for developers and publishers. However because gamers are entitled its a massive issue.
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Lord_Ham_Mork
@Jubileus Im curious myself, but havent found an answer yet. Only that: SE sucks, SE f*** themselves, Tabata traitor and liar, Im going to refund the game and will wait when those chinese pirates will crack the game.
People dont want accept that to publish a big AAA game on PC, they(companies) need to have somekind sense of security.
People dont want accept that to publish a big AAA game on PC, they(companies) need to have somekind sense of security.
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Lord_Ham_Mork
Well, not really. Rime, an indie puzzle adventure game which used Denuvo for DRM protection was cracked within merely five days of release and both players and testers as well as the cracker had the following to say:
(Source: Pirates Say Rime's DRM Slows Down The Game, But Denuvo Denies It [UPDATE], Heather Alexandra for Kotaku.com; June 1, 2017)
The industry itself has also been rather direct about the fact that DRM doesn't really stop piracy, going as far back as 2012 when Marcin Iwinski, CEO of CD Projekt Red had the following to say:
(Source: 'The Truth Is, It Doesn't Work' - CD Projekt On DRM by Daniel Nye Griffiths for Forbes.com; May 18, 2012)
Similar statements were made by Ubisofts VP of digital sales, Chris Early in 2014:
(Source: Ubisoft: DRM Can't Stop Piracy by Eddie Makuch for Gamespot; June 20, 2014)
The above article also mentions that Ubisoft had removed their always-online DRM shortly prior to its publishing due to players complaining about the game being unplayable because of - amongst other things - loss of internet connectivity.
Even people from Denuvo (the company producing the eponymous DRM software) state that their measures are only temporary and not infallible:
(Source: Denuvo Says Doom Dropped Their Anti-Piracy Tech Because It Got The Job Done by Nathan Grayson for Kotaku.com; December 16, 2016)
As a matter of fact, some games (including the aforementioned Rime) dropped Denuvo protection, some of their own volition, but most after the DRM was cracked. And, to make this come around to Final Fantasy, a quick research revealed that a cracking team by the name of "CONSPIR4CY" managed to put out an illegal non-Denuvo release of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age on PC within seventeen days of its release on digital distribution systems.
So, to use a sentence one will have heard quite often when it comes to DRM and cracking - it's not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when".
@Jubileus Denuvo is an "anti-tamper technology" that is used to protect PC games from being pirated and, as seen above, has been criticised for making games perform poorly and is thusly frowned upon.
(Can a mod move this whole DRM thingamajic to a separate thread? I think this warrants debate but ought to not derail the General News Thread any further.)
(Source: Pirates Say Rime's DRM Slows Down The Game, But Denuvo Denies It [UPDATE], Heather Alexandra for Kotaku.com; June 1, 2017)
The industry itself has also been rather direct about the fact that DRM doesn't really stop piracy, going as far back as 2012 when Marcin Iwinski, CEO of CD Projekt Red had the following to say:
(Source: 'The Truth Is, It Doesn't Work' - CD Projekt On DRM by Daniel Nye Griffiths for Forbes.com; May 18, 2012)
Similar statements were made by Ubisofts VP of digital sales, Chris Early in 2014:
(Source: Ubisoft: DRM Can't Stop Piracy by Eddie Makuch for Gamespot; June 20, 2014)
The above article also mentions that Ubisoft had removed their always-online DRM shortly prior to its publishing due to players complaining about the game being unplayable because of - amongst other things - loss of internet connectivity.
Even people from Denuvo (the company producing the eponymous DRM software) state that their measures are only temporary and not infallible:
(Source: Denuvo Says Doom Dropped Their Anti-Piracy Tech Because It Got The Job Done by Nathan Grayson for Kotaku.com; December 16, 2016)
As a matter of fact, some games (including the aforementioned Rime) dropped Denuvo protection, some of their own volition, but most after the DRM was cracked. And, to make this come around to Final Fantasy, a quick research revealed that a cracking team by the name of "CONSPIR4CY" managed to put out an illegal non-Denuvo release of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age on PC within seventeen days of its release on digital distribution systems.
So, to use a sentence one will have heard quite often when it comes to DRM and cracking - it's not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when".
@Jubileus Denuvo is an "anti-tamper technology" that is used to protect PC games from being pirated and, as seen above, has been criticised for making games perform poorly and is thusly frowned upon.
(Can a mod move this whole DRM thingamajic to a separate thread? I think this warrants debate but ought to not derail the General News Thread any further.)