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Life Is Strange: Before The Storm PC uses Denuvo

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axisofweevils

Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Rewind me to the past if old.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/554620/announcements/detail/1442696667796870458

Hi everyone!

Tomorrow is the big day for us as Episode One: Awake of Life is Strange: Before the Storm releases! The game will unlock in your Steam library at 12:01 EDT / 9:01 PDT / 17:01 BST August 31st. (More Local times here[www.timeanddate.com])

Additionally, in order to provide you with all the facts upfront before the launch, we wanted to make you aware in advance that we have just published our EULA for Steam and that Before the Storm will include Denuvo.

We would like to assure you that we have done extensive testing with the software and that its implementation with Before the Storm has no impact on PC resources. You should therefore not see any performance related issues as a result of Denuvo.

Additionally, Denuvo will not require an “always-on” connection. You will be able to enjoy Life is Strange: Before the Storm offline.

See you tomorrow!

The Life is Strange team
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MartyStu

Member
Well then, I guess I will wait until the game is either cracked or Denuvo is removed before I purchase.

Jawmuncher said:
The day one cracking of Denuvo hasn't seemed to amount to much from companies which is rather surprising.
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It is not. Publishers are more concerned with being seen doing something to combat piracy. I do not think the much care about effectiveness.
 
Plumpbiscuit

Plumpbiscuit

Member
They said they done extensive testing but I thought it was point proven that Denuvo does decrease performance? I could be wrong on this, so I'm asking just to be sure.

Either way, that's £15 saved for me. As far as I'm concerned Denuvo needs to die, it's more harmful to paying customers than pirates who crack the game in a day or two.
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
All I want is an assurance if it gets cracked (or in 6 months time) that they will remove it.
 
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MartyStu

Member
Plumpbiscuit said:
They said they done extensive testing but I thought it was point proven that Denuvo does decrease performance? I could be wrong on this, so I'm asking just to be sure.

Either way, that's £15 saved for me. As far as I'm concerned Denuvo needs to die, it's more harmful to paying customers than pirates who crack the game in a day or two.
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I think the only 'facts' we have in this regards suggests performance issues are mostly implementation specific.
 
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Chris R

Member
Hope it's removed by the time all the episodes are out (preferably by the end of the year so I can potentially add it to my GOTY list if it's good.......)
 
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Soroc

Member
Don't most pubs remove the denuvo requirement after the first initial months? I don't plan to buy at launch anyway, too many games in the backlog but I thought I remember reading that since they only care about the launch window sales of these games?
 
Shifty

Shifty

Member
Plumpbiscuit said:
They said they done extensive testing but I thought it was point proven that Denuvo does decrease performance? I could be wrong on this, so I'm asking just to be sure.

Either way, that's £15 saved for me. As far as I'm concerned Denuvo needs to die, it's more harmful to paying customers than pirates who crack the game in a day or two.
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If the Denuvo API is being called, CPU time and potentially other resources are being used on it.

The actual impact will vary by implementation. Calls might be scattered across the codebase to deter crackers, or just in one place for simplicity. They might be called every tick, on a timer, or only once upon startup. It could be totally unnoticeable, or it could be a hot mess.

So it sounds like they've made a proper implementation and are trying to mitigate customer concerns, but Denuvo is Denuvo at the end of the day.
 
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prudislav

Member
MartyStu said:
Well then, I guess I will wait until the game is either cracked or Denuvo is removed before I purchase.
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been doing that since Denuvo first appeared ... waht it di was saving me a lot of money and got me to try ton of indie games .... gaming never felt better after being kinda exhausted by samey-ness of AAAs ;-)

Soroc said:
Don't most pubs remove the denuvo requirement after the first initial months? I don't plan to buy at launch anyway, too many games in the backlog but I thought I remember reading that since they only care about the launch window sales of these games?
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quite rarely .. happened mostly on indie games(2dark,rime,inside) or comercially failed products(Homefront 2, Andromeda)
 
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Zero-ELEC

Banned
Soroc said:
Don't most pubs remove the denuvo requirement after the first initial months? I don't plan to buy at launch anyway, too many games in the backlog but I thought I remember reading that since they only care about the launch window sales of these games?
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This is false, most games that launched with Denuvo still have Denuvo.
 
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Bowl0l

Member
Soroc said:
Don't most pubs remove the denuvo requirement after the first initial months? I don't plan to buy at launch anyway, too many games in the backlog but I thought I remember reading that since they only care about the launch window sales of these games?
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Err, most games retain Denuvo. Some didn't even bother to maintain their games although they claim Denuvo will prevent thieves from getting official software support (bugfix) like Square's Automata at launch.
 
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Sectorseven

Member
Isn't Denuvo cracked pretty fast these days?

I guess it's still the based available and the publishers/shareholders have to be appeased with some sort of security?
 
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koutoru

Member
Proper implementation of Denuvo should result in minimal performance cost.

However, that's up to the developers and we have seen implementations of denuvo that do noticeably impact performance.
 
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kami_sama

Member
Zero-ELEC said:
Sonic Mania cannot run offline due to Denuvo.
RiME has worse performance due to Denuvo.

Very trivial.



Denuvo like most DRM, does nothing to stop piracy and instead only hurts paying consumers.
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I think the RiME thing was debunked,at least partially. It had an horrendous implementation, but removing denuvo didn't make it run better.
 
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hiryu64

Member
So is sneaking Denuvo into games and announcing its presence hours before their release dates while encouraging preorders to people who would otherwise not purchase them with Denuvo just going to be a thing we have to expect now?
 
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Ganado

Member
Budi said:
I'm in favor of Denuvo when it's removed later on, many have done this but not many enough.
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With you there, buddi
(hehe)
. Have Denuvo in for 6 months and if it gets cracked or after all DLC for a game is released, you remove it

I haven't had a single problem with Denuvo yet, but I really don't want games to get stuck with it. Boycotting a game just for Denuvo wouldn't work for me either.
 
Lister

Lister

Banned
kami_sama said:
I think the RiME thing was debunked,at least partially. It had an horrendous implementation, but removing denuvo didn't make it run better.
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Yeah, the issue swith Rime's perofrmance had to to do with unoptomized shaders IIRC. Denuvo has not been shown to affect oerformance to any noticeable degree. At least not yet.

And this implementaiton apparently does not hinder off-line gaming.

I don't see the issue.
 
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