Denuvo code is such rubbish that virtually 90% of the developers CANNOT implement it without having it impacting the performance of their own code and games.

And it is stupid for the greedy publisher to assume that all who pirates will buy the game when most of these will not buy that game even if it is not available as the pirated version.

And this article tries to raise the sympathy for the indie folks, sayin they are the one who cannot afford to pirate, while their game being so cheap now are the ones that are rarely pirated Especially when Denuvo charges such a sum for implementation of its shitty codes.

And it is the greedy publishers like Square and such that mandates that all their games get the stupid denuvo code. How much of a shrill for big publisher can you be?

My problem with that line of thought is that we don’t have an inherent right to play these games. If you disagree with the dev/publisher’s business model/choice of DRM, that’s perfectly fine, but you shouldn’t pirate their stuff. There are countless other games that don’t feature Denuvo and could use your support.

Secondly piracy of Denuvo games proves how ineffective Denuvo damages confidence in it, and the sooner they take Denuvo out of games the sooner we can play them at peak performance.

The Industry is incorporating free to play mobile app game models into their $60 games, they want us to pay $60 for a game then pay another $70 to upgrade it to the full version months after it’s come out (anyone who buys it on launch day gets an inferior version, stop buying games at launch) and they’re even trying to sell us “boosts” to speed up the grind when they engineered the freaking grind.

And on top of that they want me to run Denuvo, which slows my system to a crawl and makes my fans work overtime, yeah Piracy is the solution, when pirates disable denuvo games run better and you don’t have to reward companies for using it.

Thanks for the kind words. By the way, I am not from Mexico (and I don’t live in the USA)
Good day sir!

Fuck off spic back to Mexico!

I don’t know how some group of hackers are able to crack a software solution developed by a group of experts. Make something like windows only games. See, how Forza Horizon 3 (only a bypass is available which isn’t good and too complicated), Recore and other windows only titles aren’t cracked yet. This is what we are waiting.

While I agree with your point about the lack of demos, I don’t think that we are entitled to the latest releases, so waiting for sales or buying on alternative stores is a good solution (and I say this as someone who lives in Argentina, a country with a pretty screwed up economy that often gets the shaft when it comes to digital distribution and retail games)

Steam’s refund policies also let people try games without having to commit to buying them, but it’s not a perfect solution because it forces the user to purchase the game on the Steam store.

People who live in places where ~$350 is a typical monthly salary and $300 is your rent, which is not even expensive at the place near your work.
Or if you’re a high school kid, you work the whole summer in night shift, and earn $250 for 2 months, and your parents cant buy you games, or too much pc hardware.
Ofc there wasnt g2a when i was that age, but yea, both were me, and there are places with worse salary / game price ratios. I do pirate games still.
Games nowadays can be extremely unoptimized, buggy, or simply just turns our to be not your style.
Like Forza Horizon is basically unplayable online for me due to server side lags, is badly optimized, and extremely pricey. Still bought it on the discount. Im gonna buy Andromeda aswell, but was playing a cracked version last week.
I say piracy is the answer for the lack of demos. If i feel like a game deserves it, Im gonna buy it anyways, but spending even $35 on 1-2 hours of mediocre fun wont work out for me.