Please dont defend Denuvo ffs, you're a gamer. If you dont have a problem with it then fine but dont fucking defend it.
I was obviously talking from a gamers perspective. I dont give a shit if publishers like it or not.
You need reading lessons. He wasn't defending it based on its merits. He was asking a bigger picture question - why's it even popular to bundle it into software in the first place?
That's something I've wrestled with myself. I can't really figure it out.
Every single game, ever made, with anti-piracy or not - is available online. One way or another, if someone wants to pirate something, they'll be able to do so.
Keeping that in mind, what kind of out-of-touch business execs at these companies are being convinced that bundling software that will only eventually be defeated anyway is a good idea from a financial perspective? Do they really recoup ANY of the money they pay these anti-piracy companies from recovered sales? Either management is being fooled at pitch meetings from the likes of Denuvo, or the people responsible for making the decisions in purchasing Denuvo's services for their publishing companies have a financial stake in Denuvo making profits. Maybe there's a kickback or something? Who knows.
Honestly you can never be sure with management at companies anyway, they're all run by boomers and Karens so what would you expect...But...
All that are things the end user has no control of anyway. What we do have control over is what we buy. The customer base did pretty well to heed the suggestion "if you don't like, don't buy it" from EA/DiCE, we ought to really do the same for ever other release like this.
The Pre-Order culture that gamers have been talked into (forking over your money before even letting someone give you any information of the final product) is the most amazingly anti-consumer practice. And the average gamer thinks he/she is actually smarter than the regular population, lol.
As long as we're religiously buying games, we're really no better than other creatures of habits you might make fun of for (think of every other kind of behavior you look down upon).
