Denuvo: Copy protection prevented the launch of numerous games

Cartracer wrote: ?Yesterday 3:19 pm

That this is not a fairy tale is proven by the fact that global corporations such as Microsoft, Sony, Apple and Samsung give protection against piracy a high priority.

You mean Microsoft, whose OS can still be activated with simple means today?
No, you misunderstood Microsoft there. They don’t care about piracy if it benefits them. From MS everyone could use Windows for a sum. (I mean … de facto … If you bought a Win7 PC at that time, then you still benefit from the OEM license in Win11!), The main thing is that you have Windows installed so that they can then cry at the employer, if he doesn’t have Windows, because the tools are learned, that’s tough. And if the AG then has Windows, then the step to Office is not far …
And THERE is MS making the money!
And DA also puts a lot of effort into MS if you use unlicensed installations. The mail is really going on there.
Or do you mean Microsoft, which is also bringing its games to Steam, which in Forza Horizon 5 means that 2 groups of people could play the game before the launch: Premium buyers and pirates? Because no Denuvo or something.
You also misunderstood the fairy tale. That has the high priority, THAT is the fairy tale.
If that had high priority, then they wouldn’t buy it from an Austrian, then they would all do it themselves – EVEN because you would then no longer have a single point of failure.
And THEN comes that ALL publishers don’t care about EVERYTHING after the first few weeks. In the end, we had a developer here who said that second parts depend on the best way to pre-order the game blindly. So even before playback protection somehow comes into play.
Such a playback protection is ALWAYS to the disadvantage of the CUSTOMER!
You’re just lucky that it wasn’t as massively noticed as it was with the music industry when they sold CDs that weren’t … nowhere.
Well, there was Securom.
But we…