Denuvo’s quest to improve its reputation with PC gamers is personal.
Awhhh. Noooo. Not the big big corop’s feelings. We’re all sooooo sorrry. 🤡
'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment'
Submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
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Rin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s because we fucking hate you, Denuvo.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
denuvo is hostile and toxic program
KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
And just like that my opinion of the steam forums skyrocketed.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’m with the company for such a long time," said Ullmann. "The guys here are like my family, because a lot of the others here are also here for ages. It just hurts to see what’s posted out there about us, even though it has been claimed wrong for hundreds of times.
It hurts???
I get he’s being paid to gobble corporate dick, but people try to at least hide it usually lmaotherealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Sometimes some people need to get bullied
catch22@programming.dev 1 year ago
pcgamer.com/a-great-day-for-drm-as-denuvo-lapse-r… - how does this make games better?
shani66@ani.social 1 year ago
You know, i prefer my cyberpunk dystopias to be ballsy enough to just say it with their chest. You’d never catch Lofwyr groveling like this.
I’d also very much prefer dragons, or at least technological implants, but whatever.
Bosht@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Very toxic, and very hostile if you do stupid, dumb corpo bullshit. Fuck this guy.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Fuck Denuvo. DRM does not benefit the gamer. Period. No amount of gaslighting will change that.
Clasm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Stop being shitty. Skill issue.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
If anyone deserves the Steam forums’ shit it’s these cunts.
No amount of hostility will ever reach the levels they’ve earned with their malware shit.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck Denuvo. They just slithered their way into Undisputed with the 1.0 update and I’m stuck without a boxing game again.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What’s with all the recent articles whitewashing Denuvo?
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 year ago
The PR firm they hired must have not googled how hated they were ahead of time. How long till we see bots saying hey love getting broken games with spyware.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
[…] a new effort by Denuvo to bring PC gamers over to its side, which kicked off with a Discord server last week (it didn’t go well) and an interview with Rock Paper Shotgun this week
PR baybeeeeee
frauddogg@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Denuvo is the single most odious intersection of capitalism and leisure; and in a perfect world, everyone in that company’s c-suite would’ve already been kicked into a tiger pit
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Imagine someone punches you in the mouth and then when you get pissed off and say mean things, they call you “toxic” and “hostile”. Like bitch, you created this situation.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol. lmao, even. cry more Denuvo.
Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Fuck off, Denuvo.
Yes, the Steam forums are awful, but still. Fuck off. Nobody wants you here.
HeckGazer@programming.dev 1 year ago
Nobody wants Denuvo anywhere Shrivel up and die at earliest convenience plzkthx <3
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 1 year ago
The upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard will somewhat surprisingly not use Denuvo at all
There’s the tell. Publishers might start listening to their customers, who generate income, rather than their vendors’ sales personnel, who create expenses. He’s panicked over a potential existential crisis.
shani66@ani.social 1 year ago
Huh. This is literally the best advertising veilguard has ever had.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Have you tried not hurting game performance?
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Better yet, have they tried not fucking with gamers’ property rights by shutting down their criminal company?
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 1 year ago
If I read a forum where people are known to object to what I do, there’s a fair chance I’ll get my feelings hurt. That’s on me.
Tarogar@feddit.org 1 year ago
To be fair. The Steam forums are actually pretty bad in general and could do with better moderation.
Having said that, there is a reason why some corporations have the reputation that they have. Might want to fix the thing that is causing that reputation instead of blaming everyone else for your bad reputation. But that would be the harder thing to do that takes time and effort and no one likes to put effort in.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you mean?
All I see are hearts and love ❤️❤️❤️❤️. /shypna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Skill issue.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I haven’t bought a Denuvo-protected game in about a decade, and that isn’t going to change.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Denuvo-
protectedinfestedFTFY.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, that’s a dumb take. Denuvo does protect from casual piracy, that’s why companies use it, if only temporarily.
It also negatively affects legit consumers, and that is the problem - these publishers have decided that potential profit matters more than actual, realized customers.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Unrelated, but I just figured out what FTFY means thanks to your comment.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Oh look, Denuvo playing the victim.
And it exemplifies rather well why I hate the word “toxic”: bad reputation? Toxic! Criticism? Toxic!
Bullshitting like «it’s in part because it “simply works” and would-be pirates are trying to make it unattractive to game publishers by disparaging it.»? Noooo that is not toxic because it aligns with the discourse that Denuvo wants to spread, right?
“I’m with the company for such a long time,” said Ullmann. “The guys here are like my family, because a lot of the others here are also here for ages. It just hurts to see what’s posted out there about us, even though it has been claimed wrong for hundreds of times.”
"Insert personal story to make it look like you aren’t criticising software; no, you’re criticising a family. You monster~
Justas@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
When a plant or an animal is toxic, very often it’s a defense mechanism.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
You can be a great person and still write garbage software. Whether you’re just doing it because you need money or whether you’re misguided and think it’s actually good, that doesn’t necessarily make you a bad person (and remember: It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it).
Doesn’t make the software less garbage.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 year ago
A person is good or bad depending on their impact on the people around them; as such I don’t consider “misguided” a valid defence.
And while someone can be overall a good person while writing socially harmful and user-hostile software, because they have other qualities that compensate it, writing said software still makes them a worse person.
It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it
So it’s hard to be good when your salary depends on you being bad.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m analysing this through my moral views, but I don’t think that they’re the only valid ones. Your mileage may vary.
My other comment was mostly on how idiotic the whole defence is, not about morality (as this one).
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
it exemplifies rather well why I hate the word “toxic”
I mean it can be abused just like any other adjective…
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Most people that i know that use the word toxic, are the things that they mean when they say toxic.
ampersandrew@mastodon.world 1 year ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The steam-forums are often toxic. But denuvo also is and every hate justified. It does absolutely nothing good for the honest consumer. Quite the contrary.