The official Steam page for Deep Silver and Starbreeze’s PAYDAY 3 game has been updated to show the use of this ever-controversial third-party DRM.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    Adding DRM to a co-op game is one of the stupidest things you can do. The only thing I can think of that would be worse would be adding DRM to a game that is already always-online.

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      1 year ago

      I understand people hate DRM, but what’s the specific gripe about co-op games having them?

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        1 year ago

        If you do your authentication with online servers properly it is virtually impossible to get the full experience by pirating anyway so the only thing you’re doing by including DRM is taking performance and convenience from paying customers

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        The main point of co-op games is to play with friends. In order to do that, you (usually) need to connect to the games official servers, which you can’t do on cracked games (for the most part) which makes DRM pretty pointless. It prevents you from enjoying maybe a lazily thrown together campaign and it’s more of an insult than anything else.

        Plus, it’s also worth mentioning DRM hurts paying customers by causing reduced performance in-game and also inconveniencing them.

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          1 year ago

          causing reduced performance in-game and also inconveniencing them.

          denuvo in particular will blow out your SSD with unoptimized mass writes, too

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        Worse performance for no reason

        Good reason to not waste money on the game though at least