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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    4711 months ago

    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.

      • Franklin
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        11 months 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

      • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        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.

        • Alien Nathan Edward
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          611 months ago

          causing reduced performance in-game and also inconveniencing them.

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

        • @Gamey@lemmy.world
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          611 months ago

          In addition to reduced performance Denuvo is very invasive regarding your operating system so it could be a potential way to hack your system too!