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[–] [email protected] 60 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

It's absolutely fine to put your pirate hat on when they do this kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

It's always fine to put your pirate hat on while children go hungry.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago

Absolutely. It's not like the person can even support the studio, it's blocked in their country.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

No DRM exists which can't be circumvented one way or another given enough time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Only if empress gives a shit or gets enough money. Last time I checked shes the only one crazy enough to attack Denuvo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

Denuvo

... is expensive. And a subscription service.

Which means there's an incentive for studios to remove it as soon as new sales aren't bringing enough money for its cost to be worth it.

That's when you want to pirate (or buy, if you're into that kind of shit) the game. With the added benefit that it's unlikely that the studio will come up with more updates or DLC, and if the game is at all moddable it'll probably have a mature community patch that'll fix everything the studio was unwilling or unable to patch. (Also, I'm not sure how denuvo cracking works, but I doubt it removes all of that shit, so a game with it properly removed will probably run better than a cracked one, even if the cracked one still ran better than the original infected version.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago