Happy news for anyone in #gaming who loves their game running without DRM baked in to slow it down, and who love #Batman
Gotham Knights has had #Denuvo officially dropped from it now. From all I've read (I still haven't played it), its not a great game, but still, this is great news!
@flwwhtrbt If you mean Gotham Knights (the spinoff where you aren't playing Batman), it was actually a very fun game to co-op! Highly recommend, especially if they've finally removed the Denuvo plague from the title.
Great news, indeed!
Oops, thanks! I did! Not sure where 'Arkham' came from, I was walking through a thunderstorm typing and sharing this one, so I'll blame the rain
Edit made, and thank you!
@flwwhtrbt Isn't that from like 11 years ago? What even the F that it took this long if so?
Doesn't the publisher have to pay a constant subscription? I don't know if it's monthly or yearly, but it has to be costly as heck.
@nazokiyoubinbou @flwwhtrbt They're probably taking a cue from Sega. Sega seldom ever removes denuvo from any of their games, even the old ones.
It makes me so angry.
This is where I have to give Capcom credit. Usually within a year or two of release, they remove denuvo from their titles.
@Judeau @flwwhtrbt Quite a lot of corporations are very obsessive about having iron-grip control over everything people are "allowed" to do with the games they paid for. (Note I emphasize that. Generally if a game is actually worth it, crackers crack the Denuvo, so pirates and people who are just fed up with that crap remove it anyway. But it was never actually about stopping piracy...)
I know some of it is they want to keep reselling the same blasted games over and over. Imagine a world where consoles came with emulators and they sold us ROMs once, then we could just load them in the emulators legally. They'd only make one sale! But, since they package games and emulators and never sell ROMs, they get to sell us the same games over and over and over and over...
@Judeau @flwwhtrbt I'm still in shock that people allowed that.
A while back there was something really really neat. And I mean off the charts neat. "Sega Genesis Classics" (and I believe everywhere else it said "Sega Megadrive Classics.") It went all out. It presented you with a VR environment (apparently even supporting VR headsets on PC?) where you have this room as befitting a kid in the 90s with posters on the wall and etc. There's a SEGA Genesis/Megadrive sitting under a CRT TV on a small stand and beside it is a shelf with a bunch of game cartridge cases. You select one and it puts the cartridge in the system and plays on the TV (which can go fullscreen or stay as a TV as you like.) Apparently it even had the ROM files as-is?
Of course it was delisted everywhere.
@nazokiyoubinbou @flwwhtrbt I picked that up on the Switch but unfortunately I was never able to pick it up on Steam before it got de-listed. I would have loved to have had that on PC
That's what I heard too. It was filled with legal ROM files and you could even add your own to the directory.
Sega realized it was too awesome so they delisted it. 😂
@Judeau @flwwhtrbt Exactly!!! That thing was awesome — which is not a word I use to describe something like this! Positively mind-blowing.
So, naturally, they got rid of it as soon as they could...
It gave us too much. It was NICE. It made people happy. But they couldn't resell individual games over and over.
Oh, we don't get to play most of those games at all anymore? Oh well, too bad. At least they get to sell Sonic 1, 2, and CD over and over and over and over and over and over.
Yep, its an olllllld game. The funny thing is one update soon after release was done without Denuvo, so why even bother after that?!
@flwwhtrbt Funnier still when you realize they pay lots of money for that.
God I'm sick of publishers obsessing over DRM. DRM costs them far more than any theoretical savings (especially since pretty much everything is cracked very quickly anyway...) All it does is hurt the actual paying users.
The mentality that every download is a lost sale never made sense to me anyway. It has no basis in reality. But now they've reached the point of basing their decisions on theoretical downloads, not even actual...
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