They also typically go on really good sales right around the time denuvo gets removed.
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yesman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just another reason to wait long after release to buy a game. Denuvo charges games companies to administer the DRM infrastructure and most developers will strip it out of their games after it’s been out for a while.
Buying games on launch is one of the most anti-customer experiences you can get. And that’s saying something in our wonderful capitalist economy
Sabin10@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Buying a game post-launch:
- Better prices; often on sale.
- Fixed and patched up.
- Extra content often included.
- DRM often removed.
No brainer, imo.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Remember when games used to, at least sometimes… do actual internal beta testing to iron out performance bugs and such?
Now we are all alpha and beta testers, all the time.
Sometimes even AAA and ‘AAAA’ games release, and then unrelease before the alpha or beta is even done!
Yeah, patient gaming for me, haven’t preordered or gone into an early access game in almost a decade now…
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cons:
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maybe multiplayer isn’t very populated if you wait too long
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???
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endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Preordering games: I need this digital product before jt goes up in price or runs out of copies!
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Runs out of copies? Is that a thing?
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
not for digital games.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You forgot a bonus point:
- Hardware requirements are now easier/cheaper to meet/exceed.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pirating single player games is unfortunately the way to go, considering you BUY a single player game and STILL get fucked on it.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pirating is getting so hard for me that it’s becoming not an option. Comcast has started blocking vpn nodes for me, but only of I am torrenting. And if I turn off the vpn, DMCA notices out the ass. I’m kinda stuck.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What VPN and where are you located?
Couple things you can do, try changing your router DNS to quad9 or open DNS, make sure you’re not using Comcast default DNS servers.
Try a new VPN provider, I’ve been using Torguard for almost a decade, zero issues, there are discount codes where you can get it for $29/year.
I have a dedicated desktop for seeding, I upload about 1TB per day on soulseek/nicotine+ and torrents.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thank you, you’re a god among men. I use a pihole for DNS, but I will give Torguard a try because I’ve been thinking of getting rid of private internet access since they went all corporate.
CybranM@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Disagree, like yesman (lol) said it’s best to wait. I’m not that worried about playing games day one but I still want to sort the Devs, after they’ve patched out the bugs and removed DRM preferably
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Only the devs who don’t use Denuvo
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not either, I get them on sale later, just pointing out why would they screw over a paying customer with DRM bullshit.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If only buying games actually supported devs anymore. Devs seem to get fired for any reason nowadays.
Bad game? Fired. Good game? Also fired. Popular game that people loved? Believe it or not, also fired.
CybranM@feddit.nu 10 months ago
I get where you’re coming from and I agree the job security for Devs and the financing of games is fucked. It’s still disingenuous to claim that pirating the game has the same impact as buying.
pycorax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plenty of singleplayer games are from indies, those more or less support the developer.
piefood@feddit.online 10 months ago
Patient gamers represent! The older I get, the less I care about FOMO. The less I care about FOMO, the happier I am. It's a beautiful cycle.
/me goes back to playing snes games on an emulator
JayGray91@piefed.social 10 months ago
A lot of things in life are improved once you excise the FOMO mind cancer.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, there’s so many good games and so little time, I don’t understand how anyone wouldn’t have a big backlog anyway.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
cause they only play slop with huge marketing.