DRM-free doesn’t mean piracy. GOGs whole business model is built around selling games DRM free. I don’t pirate but I do use GOG where possible as I hate DRM - it punishes and inconveniences legitimate users for piracy and doesn’t even solve the problem. DRM is just an expensive waste of money for everyone involved.

it punishes and inconveniences legitimate users for piracy and doesn’t even solve the problem.

IDK about that, the only person who can crack denuvo is empress and she doesn’t crack all games, so I guess it atleast reduces piracy for a while. I agree however that DRM shouldn’t exist.

AFAIK there are devs who remove Denuvo as soon as their game gets cracked, and tbh I don’t have too many complaints about that system. That being said, I don’t own any games with Denuvo, so I don’t know why it’s hated so much.

Get a steam deck and you’ll see why.

How? Does the Steam Deck force Denuvo on everything or something?

No, and it runs denuvo games fine. It’s things like EAC or EA Anti-Cheat that break on Deck/Linux.

I think most people understand that DRM and Anti Cheat are done for 2 completely different reasons.

Well, in the context of the Steam Deck, DRM works fine and anti-cheats often don’t.

I have no idea why you’re talking about the Steam Deck and anti-cheat when the comment I replied to was strictly about Denuvo.