• Sanguine@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I simply do not buy games with this type of DRM (Denuvo, etc). Full stop. I know hearing this gets old, but vote with your money.

    I have not bought an ubisoft, ea, Activision, or game with DRM in at least a decade; save for a few small exceptions (diablo, wow). Me doing this alone obviously has no impact, however if we all started to do this it would make a dent in the only language these companies communicate in: the bottom line.

    At that point they would need to begin weighing profits losses to piracy versus profits lost to DRM.

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      10 months ago

      The game didn’t have DRM, they added it after ten years.

      So buying games that have no DRM doesn’t mean it won’t have it later on.

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        10 months ago

        Well can’t really do much about this one…adding DRM 10 years later is, as far as I know, unprecedented. They would have got me in this case if I bought the game. Not going to delay a purchase if all other requirements are met on a “what if.”

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      10 months ago

      I will also add, for those reading that Riot (Majorly owned by Tencent) is also deploying their own kernel level, always on DRM/Anti-Cheat that presents a huge privacy and security concern. This concern is amplified by their scale. I recommend uninstalling as soon as possible, and if you need to play these games, virtualize or use a computer where riot games are the only thing running.

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        10 months ago

        These kernal level anti-cheats are absurd. Played valorent on launch and had to reinstall windows after I did more research on the “Vanguard.”