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Fans Cancel Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Pre-Orders Because of Denuvo. (80.lv)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

addendum: Denuvo is sick of “toxicity,” says people only hate it because it works

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If people only hated it because it works, paying customers wouldn't be cancelling their preorders!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

That's the key here. People who were willing to pre-pay for the game ahead of time are clearly not the target of the DRM, and yet they're the ones choosing to cancel their purchase. It's not pirates complaining because they want to play the game for free, it's people who were looking forward to buying the game.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

If driving away sales counts as "it works", then good for them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

People are voting with their wallets. They were willing to buy it. But this effects them and made the game no longer worth it. Pirates will pirate regardless. But you just lost some of the genuine customers by effecting them, pirates will have a "better" version.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I learned it the hard way by buying Shadow of the Tomb Raider after pirating and liking it, the same PC ran the legit version like shit, I bet they only have nasa PCs over there to test the DRM on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I hate it because it's just a sign of disrespect of the publisher towards the legitimate customers. Guess who has a better experience when the DRM goes to shit or slows down the game? Those who didn't pay.

I just won't be part of the first customers, I'll wait for the game to be cleaned up of this bs.