Resident Evil 7 Denuvo cracked in less than 5 days

They are low selling games on PC cause PC gamers have much better things to play.

Publishers didn't release 20 DLCs in fully priced games in the blink of an eye. They did it gradually, starting with some horse armor and minor addon. Then they realised that people kinda accept that, so now we have half the games in DLCs.

Publishers didn't introduce microtransactions with gameplay impacts in the blink of an eye. They did it gradually, starting with convenience boosts and cosmetics. Then they realised that people are totally cool with that, and now we are starting to have gameplay impacting microtransactions in fully paid games (e.g. For Honor again).

Similarly, publishers won't introduce always online DRM in the blink of an eye. They will do it gradually.

For Honor will be one of the first AAA titles which a single player campaign that requires always online. Yes, it focuses on multiplayer, but as said "gradually". First we'll have multiplayer-focused games with single player components becoming always online (i.e. COD, Battlefield, etc.). Then we'll have single-player focused games with multiplayer components becoming always online (e.g. could have been Mass Effect Andromeda, if it isn't already using Denuvo). Finally we'll just straight on have pure single-player games that require always online. It will happen, but not in the blink of an eye.

Personally, I would regard myself as fairly neutral on the DRM front, so long as it does not impact me. Pragmatically, Denuvo has no chance of impacting me, contrary to always online which requires a fairly constant and stable connection. I will defend Denuvo because it's the best thing going forward. It's better than the alternatives publishers would pursue for peace of mind, and getting rid of DRM across the industry is an altogether impossible delusion.

Or c) Don't buy the game at all.

I fail to see how pirating it and playing it (and possibly recommend the game to others making Capcom a favor in the process) is worse than not playing it at all. "It's stealing and totally not right!!" doesn't really cut it for me. It's more right to me than Capcom taking out a part of their game and sell it a week after the game's release.

I'm not saying I pirate games or will pirate RE7, but I don't see much wrong with it when Capcom is doing what they are. I really don't want to support that behavior, and I really wish more gamers wouldn't.

Well, and that thought process is exactly why publishers want peace of mind from good DRM, even if at a cost to legitimate consumers.

Pirates always end up hurting legitimate consumers, and ergo the industry, both short-term and long-term one way or another.

When game makers try to block pirates (and they fail everytime they try) they hurt both the games and gamers. This is the pirates fault? Sorry, I don't agree at all. If the ones making the games sell them for a reasonable price, way more people will buy the game than what a DRM makes people buy the game. It's just all around better not bothering with expensive DRM and instead give gamers better deals making them want to buy the games more.

Witcher 3 is a good example, if you want one.

Ubisoft already tried it with Assassins Creed 2 back in 2009, not only was it pirated on day 1, the backlash was so huge that later they completely reverted it. I'm not saying its' impossible for publishers to do that but there will be backlash as was with Assassins Creed 2 and SimCity 4. We don't know how For Honor plays out in the coming months but what you're missing here is that this title is online only on consoles as well. Somewhat different situation.

Your bullshit is as bad as Trump's. When Streep or DeNiro called him out, Trump tweets they are overrated actors. Two of the best in history just because he's butthurt

Here you are with a hatehard on for all things Microsoft and acting like FH3 is a mediocre game. LOL just ignore the fact that industry wide its the best received open world racer of the gen with a 91/100 meta score. You're really sad, dude.

LOL you use the worse example ever. PC gamers have a bunch of hyper realistic racers that are not on consoles and they don't even sell close to what something like Gran Turismo sells on console. Of course Forza will struggle even if it's good. On consoles it keeps selling low in comparison to GT. And for shooters that are the other type of game M$ has exclusives of, the games on PC in those genres just shit all over them. So sorry but it's a fact that MS games are no up there and even less if they keep them locked in that stinky dungeon known as the Windows Store where no one wants to go. There's not really a lot of motivation out there to pirate those games if so few people play them there.

Please, don't even go there. People are entitled to their own opinions, accept it and move on.

Take your own advice and don't read my posts. Just move on

What? This doesnt really have that much to do with Resident Evil (other than maybe someone can pirate it now) and more with Denuvo being pointless

If the police runs down a member of public while chasing a boy racer, I would place more blame on the boy racer than on the police (albeit depending on the circumstances may not be entirely blameless).

Gaming is a luxury. It's not a necessity and should therefore not need to be priced like necessities. If you don't agree with the price, then don't buy. Pirating a non-necessity just because you don't agree with the price or can't afford doesn't make it right.

That was years ago. Back then people also gave strong backlashes to microtransactions of any form in fully priced games; yet this is no longer the case.

Do you truly believe that things will turn out the same? Again, "gradual" means gradual. It may take months, or it may take years, but the trend is already there and the story is simply that most consumers don't care. The vocal ones on forums will be loud, but at the end of the day if people continue to vote with their wallets words will mean little to game publishers.

If you don't do them right, there will be backlash. Like the way Payday 2 handled the microtransactions, but take a look at Rainbow Six Siege, it has DLCs, it has Season Pass but everybody's happy , why? because they do it right.

They can't do it gradually, they can't even get close to it, For Honor is an Online game hence not relevant here and let's be honest, nobody cares about its Single player aspect. My point is, you will never ever see a fully fledged single player game to have Online DRM, period.

That's where you're wrong, you're like "it doesn't matter to me because it doesn't affect me" , it does affect some ppl as i showed in the picture hence it ain't good.

I can understand your view here but don't worry, they wouldn't dare to implement Online DRM in a single-player game.

My first solution to the whole piracy issue is that they should offer Demos, as i know some ppl who only pirate a game to see if it's good, so offering a Demo would go a long way. my second solution is to provide a local store in all countries so the games can be bought with the local currency hence way cheaper ! Here, in Iran, when you buy a 60$ game, you're actually giving away one third of your monthly income! It is just impossible to buy the product (especially when you're a teenager, good luck asking your dad to give one-third of his money to you), and this is the case in all of the third-world countries. Personally, i've changed my region on Steam so i can buy games cheaper (which is not possible on Origin or Uplay or Windows Store games, gotta wait for some price drop or go with Nvidia bundles...which i'm hoping Nvidia offers one for Mass Effect Andromeda otherwise i have to pay 60$ which is basically half of my income lol), yeah it is an illegal thing to do but it's fair...but majority of ppl here don't know about this and it's risky, you may get banned, hence resorting to Piracy (or using websites like this http://denuvogames.ru/?lang=en) ....Overall, my point is, consider the circumestances, it's not as simple as ppl in first-world countries think it is, it's a significant financial problem ...you can't get around that by implementing DRM.

And read this article for further insight:

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-state-of-pc-piracy-in-2016/

In Bulgaria, a new game frequently costs almost a third of a minimum wage earner’s monthly income.

Single player only games never sell well really on PC. Even if it wouldn't be cracked the sales would be abysmal on pc.

uwp nobody on pc enviroment gives 2 cents about microsoft shop, never will be. They burned these bridges to much really over and over again. uwp is there next fail solution.

The protection they use pushes away a lot of knowledged pc users for buying the game. Nobody wants drm's on there pc games. It's not 00's anymore.

@Gatygun: Witcher, EOS, Fallout, Dark souls etc all sell well on PC, so can't really say all single player

denuvo=no buy

i'd rather get the inferior console version on a discount

Witcher / fallout are big on PC because they are open world games which are a joy for modders. Also witcher is a bit more special a visual bar pushers which a lot of people on PC like and it got heavily promoted by free give anyways which they also count as sales ( nvidia cards etc ). And they sold a lot of those gpu's.

Fallout is from that company that also makes skyrim, it's massive on pc.

Dark soul has multiplayer features it's not a single player game even while you can play it single player. It still makes sense to buy a multiplayer version of it.

If you get games that are a pure single player event, sales will tank hard on PC. DRM makes it even worse. As single player games are already dead for over a decade on pc it's more console food as the typically yield behind.

That's why a lot of single player games like city builders implant other online features to make people buy into it.

The last DRM city builder totally flopped hard ( some sim city i think ), because of it's absolute garbage drm. While another city builder was a massive success. As they provided what people wanted.

lol that analogy. More like a cracked whore.

i havent seen a single bad game on denuvo with good sales, and also havent seen a single good game without denuvo and bad sales

denuvo is irrelevant for sales