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[–] 171 points 2 years ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 113 points 2 years ago* (18 children)

    I will potentially not buy it then.

    How many times do we have to teach these companies this lesson? Anti-piracy DRM never stops pirates, it only causes harm to legitimate paying customers. Pirates get the objective better experience playing a game with DRM removed because they not only get the game for free, but it performs better than the version people pay for. Why pay money for something that is objectively worse than getting it for free?

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Nobody's teaching these companies any lessons. They keep using Denuvo because it works, and the games keep selling because the number of people actually bothered by it is pretty small.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Source needed for it actually working to reduce piracy. It's possible, but I'm gonna need sources since we know from history that simply providing a better product does more to increase sales and reduce piracy than anything else. People are willing to pay when they get their money's worth. The ones that don't, weren't going to pay anyway, so there's no actual lost sale.

    It just makes the bean counters feel better and help justify their position.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It's not really clear if working DRM increases sales. But most Denuvo games don't get cracked, so it definetly prevents most piracy.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Denuvo specifically is only cracked consistently by like three people. A turbo racist, a trans woman, and a dude who only cracks the newest sports games.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Oh has she been confirmed to be trans? Last I heard she was full insane terf. Unless I’m thinking of the turbo racist and missed some scandals.

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    [–] 91 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    i mean civ is never really worth buying until they put out a complete edition with all the features they removed so they could slowly sell them back to you as dlc.

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    [–] 87 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there it vanishes from my Wishlist. Thought after Civ 5 it might be actually something potentially worth buying, but nope. Removing the Launchers just to add Denuvo... What an absolute dumbass move.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm gonna wait for the platinum ultimate mega collector's anthology edition at a 90% discount after 7 years.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    That's one way to get people to turn to piracy.

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    Oh. Well I was excited about Civ 7 right until this moment.

    Anti-tamper = no mods worth your time = only worth playing a handful of times. Also may have trouble working on Linux.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Guess that's gonna be the first Civ game I'm not buying.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Nope. If it does, I'm not buying it.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And the excitement I had has gone. Removed from wish list and added to ignore list.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I guess I'll keep playing Civ 5, then?

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now we can all build cities at 15 fps!

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    There hasn't been a need for a new Civ since IV so I already wasn't gonna buy it, but now I'm gonna not buy it even harder.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Ha ha ha...no

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    On one hand, the gameplay doesn't usually change so drastically that a new version matters too much.

    On the other, if they did dramatically change up the gameplay it might suck.

    So even though they have a decent track record and I love Civilization, I would never pre-order or buy day 1. I'll wait and see if it's actually worth getting. I will also say, in my experience, like 90% of games that used Denovu have not been good in the first place. I can name only 1 I thought was worth its cost, and I only got it after they removed the DRM (Lies of P).

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    [+] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Civ 7: "No more turns" living up to the name

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Guess I'll wait for a nice drm-free cracked version rather than buying it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago
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