So, despite Denuvo being BTFO and Tales of Berseria already cracked, The PR Manager on the Steam Forums for the game officially announced that they are not going to be removing the DRM from the game.
Kimundi on the Steam Forums made this statement. "I'm a bit more than just a "PR person", but I won't take offense :p
I've let this thread up to allow people to share their minds and to disagree. However, please stay courteous (even for those defending our position). I really hate locking down thread and punishing people for speaking their minds, but as we say in French, "My patience also has limits".
To answer the most burning question: no we are not planning to remove Denuvo. Even I, as a Community Manager, am not asking for it.
I browse community channels everyday: Steam, Gamefaqs, Reddit… I'm in contact with a lot of players directly. I have seen ZERO issues caused directly by Denuvo. It's well implemented, it did its job for a reasonable amount of time, and it's still protecting the game in a way.
Currently, removing Denuvo is out of the discussion. I don't like speaking in absolutes, because if one day there's a real issue caused by Denuvo, I will be the first one to put as much pressure as I can to fix it."
This is despite several threads, one of which currently over 400 posts, demanding Denuvo be removed from the game.
eat shit weebs thats what you get for being race traitors
Cooper Howard
This.
Well I'm going to buy Automata for PC denuvo or not, but tales anything is fucking nothing.
Ayden Ross
That fucking piece of shit completely abandoned the Xenoverse 2 forum and claimed he was "just a PR person I only say what the devs say" constantly.
Liam Gutierrez
jeez its just a hack n slash with a waifu bait, stop supporting shitty DRMs and wit for crack
Xavier Turner
U wot m8?
Carter Morales
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Noah Collins
Eh who cares, we already got the game with all the dlc.
What's the issue?
Andrew Cruz
Still, wait for the crack. It'll be like 2 weeks, more then likely. Don't give those fucks your money.
Luis Parker
only to see what the PvPfags are currently bitching about, or to see if someone else has similar issues like the game constantly fucking crashing mid-gameplay ever since the first DLC came out
I checked who he was following and I almost puked, god damnit user
Jose Powell
Is that his power word? Is he THIS retarded?
Robert King
It would probably cost them more money to actually get rid of it to be fair. Are people who've paid for it actually being fucked over by it or is it just rabble rousing for the sake of it?
Yeah, Denuvo is obviously dealing in something more than fucking DRM, but wont admit to it. They're up to something. Likely they funded this thing rather than the opposite.
Brody Perez
So why don't they just fucking pirate it then?
Michael Allen
Some people still apparently hope that publishers will realize there is money in providing quality service to their customers instead of fucking them as hard as they can.
They'll learn.
Levi Barnes
why would anyone hire these idiots is beyond me
Hunter Sanchez
nepotism
William Miller
Uhm isn't this obvious? Do games ever get their copy protection removed after they're cracked? Is Netflix going free now because all the shows are on torrent sites?
Steam.dll was cracked ages ago and it's still there.
Christian Cook
nu-Doom removed its denuvo after it got cracked
Levi Kelly
>>>/suicide/
Liam Gonzalez
Didn't Toot magically start running better with Denuvo removed, on top of that?
Carter Powell
Pure coincidence
Ayden Edwards
I'd give this fuck all of my money.
Sebastian Hughes
Fuck Denuvo. It really needs to die.
Kevin Hall
That knight is getting cucked by a fat greasy italian
Grayson Baker
I type how I think it's an old 90s forum thing sorry for triggering you (not really).
Cool didn't know that but they're an outlier then. This industry isn't known for its consumer friendly attitude.
Colton Garcia
Nigga, knight is just doing his job, bitch's nothing more than a cargo.
Owen Rodriguez
Why don' devs implement Spyro 3 game protection systems that actually respects the costumers and does it's thing in keeping pirates away? The last game i saw do that was serious Sam 3 where the cracked game would spawn unkillable enemy for pirates to get assraped to death.
Leo Butler
Princess is getting MARIOED
Joseph Rivera
I mean if random girl on the street has a bf, does that mean that you're cucked? According to your logic it does.
Alexander Clark
Are you really gonna make me explain the symbolism of that picture? It's literally a white knight protecting a lady (Or in truth, corporate bullshit). It's a joke about how these cucks see themselves, as they desperately protect both 'mi'lady' and corporations, neither of whom give a shit about them and are just using them.
Get it now?
Kevin Collins
Im going to stop you right there and ask why would any game need DRM
Bentley Gray
We are working on two different assumptions: me on the white knight that wants to bang the princess and you on the knight doing his job. However my assumption is right
Jaxson Price
Do you know what the fuck is a knight? It's literally wage slave who does his fucking job, in this case guarding some random ass bitch. You faggots are fucking braindead sometimes, I swear.
Ryan Powell
Can we just agree that the princess is fuckable?
Zachary Thompson
you the one who doesn't know what a knight here
Jacob Fisher
It technically isn't drm as it never activates if you play a legit version of the game, the game starts fucking with it's own code making the game unplayable and unbeatable if you start messing with hexeditors and shit.
Nathaniel Russell
Nah, she's too old.
Google it up.
Jacob Campbell
Yes
Do you read anything else beside board posts? Familiar with matter of france or Carolingian cycle and Matter of Britain?From where the white knight myth sprung or the princess-knight relation?
Parker King
Chances are most knights were nothing but lackeys with a nice title and a suit of gear that kept rank and file fuckwits at bay so they could be bodyguards to hoors like yer princess when not being used to put down rowdy serfs or mercs.
Princess *might* fug a knight but I imagine then much like now, a royal could barely sneeze without some hack knowing about it.
Brandon Turner
kek Anyway, what's the tangible benefit of removing Denuvo? The game is cracked so you can already play it Denuvo-free. I think it's pointless to keep it, but I don't really see a practical case for removing it either.
Ryan Phillips
whyisdenuvobad.github.io/ and there have also been reports of a few games having better performance after denuvo was removed
Noah Torres
Fine, I just won't buy your game at all. Nice job, you tools.
Luis Mitchell
denuvo is an resource hog
Jason Martin
Well then it isn't surprising then that this faggot supports Denuvo. All the shitty devs, especially social justice ones, need it or else no one buys their shitty game.
Dylan Mitchell
thankfully denuvo is too expensive for most of devs
Julian Wilson
That is all true. But would you fuck her?
James Bennett
Why shouldn't I be able to fuck around with a game I bought without it breaking itself in a fit of pique?
Charles Lopez
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Benjamin Scott
There are two options, buy a nogamestation for 250 dollars, wait for Denuvo crack, or buy it with Denuvo user. I'm pissed to but I'm not playing for nogamestation for one game.
Anthony Murphy
JUST WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK MAN
Nathan Lewis
It's cracked with all of the DLC, who cares? Even without Denuvo I still wouldn't support them because they thought it was okay to give us the same brand of censorship that they were apparently forced to give the EU.
Matthew Perry
Or you could fucking wait for a crack, pirate and send some shekels via mail to the moonnip.
Brody Bailey
Hey retard, get some reading comprehension.
Elijah Martin
Dude, cracks are taking like, a week or two. You can't wait two weeks?
Christian Nelson
Read "Tales of Barenziah" and was confused.
Now I'm not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed.
Adam Adams
Warhammer when
Thomas Flores
Gee user, i don't know, it's a tough one.
Zachary Martinez
Steam fags crying about DRM? Are they retarded? Steam itself is DRM. Fucking hypocrites.
Jason Anderson
You do notice there is a difference between Steam as DRM and Denuvo?
Xavier Cooper
i-i sort of like beseria because it isn't as much of a snoozefest as zesteria
sure as hell glad i didn't pay for it though
Tyler Sanchez
DRM is DRM.
I just want to go back to the days of buying a game and never have to worry about the store were I bought it from. There is no relationship. I don't want your service.
Carson Ward
Back then you had manual queries as DRM. The concept is almost as old as the video game industry. And was never effective. Neither has piracy destroyed the industry back then, despite being rampant.
Robert Morgan
Are you retarded underage or both? Before steam was a thing games used starforce which was a literal rootkit that skullfucks your pc.
Brody Russell
Same company that produces Denuvo now, btw.
Sebastian King
Even if your assumption is right, a man who wants to bang a chick who already has a boyfriend is the exact opposite of a cuckold.
Jeremiah Lee
Unless it's Total War Warhammer. Or Just Cause 3. Or NuBattlefront. Or Dishonored 2.
Blake Foster
Steam is not DRM. Steamworks (specifically Valve CEG) is DRM. There do exist plenty of games you can buy on Steam which do not use any DRM, even Valve CEG, and you can play them without Steam running.
I'm not excusing DRM or Steamworks, because they're shit. But specificity is important.
Alexander Brooks
There's almost no pattern to what CPY will crack next. They cracked RE7 and Berseria pretty close to their release date, but the latest hint they've put out implies it is going to be JC3
Jaxson Harris
Reminds me of the retards who think Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks do the same line of work and don't have any differences.
Michael Brooks
Besides, steam is the most weaksauce DRM ever. It can be cracked in like 15 minutes.
Denuvo is obfuscated secret software being run on your machine with no idea just what the hell it does. That's a very different animal. It causes me physical pain when I see people defending the idea of letting publishers put unknown, obfuscated, secretive software on your machine purely to protect THEIR interests.
It's the height of corporate cocksucking.
Charles Allen
This is the world these people asked for. The same people no doubt who wanted Nintendo to "get with the times", and who celebrate (if not expect and demand) DLC.
There's nothing to do but laugh at them at this point.
Hudson Scott
Not just allowing them to put it there, but also paying them for doing it and on top accepting that the publisher is not liable for anything going on with that piece of software whatever it may do.
It's like paying a pimp to put your ass to a glory hole and hoping you don't get aids.
Aaron Powell
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Joseph Cruz
yeah like the prey 2 devs
Parker Brown
You ever wonder if games are games?
Joseph Gutierrez
The same people who accepted Steam.
Luis Brown
This is wrong.
James Diaz
You are a cuckold when your girlfriend/wife fucks someone else. Thus, fucking someone's girlfriend is the diametrical opposite of that. Look it definitions before gobbling up memes next time.
Robert Collins
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Evan Hall
The opposite of letting your wife get fucked is not letting your wife get fucked. Just because you fuck other people's wife's too doesn't mean letting someone fuck yours is not cuckolding. Since these two things are not mutual exclusive they can't be the opposite.