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AwesomeLowlander ,

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

Rentlar ,

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.

hakase ,

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.

DarkThoughts ,

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.

msmc101 ,

of course, because we can’t have anything nice anymore

njm1314 ,

I probably wasn’t going to play it anyway but damn

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

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).

fruitycoder ,

Civ 7: “No more turns” living up to the name

codalafin ,

Thou Shall Not Preorder

Ioughttamow ,

Boo

RightHandOfIkaros , (edited )

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?

moody ,

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.

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ILikeBoobies ,

Look at when games get cracked, it’s very rarely prior to release

0x0 ,

That only goes to show that that most of the people capable of cracking a game aren’t privy to most pre release channels. First day buyers and pre order simps most likely wouldn’t pirate the game at all.

Prunebutt ,

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

DarkThoughts ,

Yep. Most people have no spine, or even care about it. Whatever, I can waste my time and money on other games. It's not like there's a lack of them out there, even outside of Denuvo, EA & Ubisoft.

kbal ,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

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

Prunebutt ,

Most denuvo games don’t get cracked.

kbal ,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

That was true for a little while around 2016 I think. If it's temporarily true again now I don't expect it'll last very far into the lifetime of a civ game.

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