karnak1: I still wonder why publishers waste time+money+resources on DRM when I can get any game for "free" in less than 24 hours after release, in certain sites.
It'd be better if they sold those games in DRM-free stores since day one. At least they'd get the money from honest buyers, who don't want client software on their PCs.
Mr.Caine: No Denuvo game was cracked in 24hours. None. Just Cause 3 was released in December 1, 2015 and it's STILL uncracked. Clearly it pays off for the devs in some cases.
Yes, but does it?
I didn't read any articles or numbers stating how well that game did now that people can't get it for free. How it blew every sales charts and all that jazz. And I understand that is not funny at all that people can enjoy for free something you worked for, regardless of if they would buy anyway. But then, denuvo also costs money for the developer.
At the end of the day there's one correlation that always happens: the more pirated games/movies are also the more sucessful ones. And there are games in steam that haven't been cracked yet. Unfortunately that normally doesn't work for the devoloper. It basically means that nobody knows/cares about those games.
It's probably a fake dev, though. Will fake claims about denuvo. That don't match up with the (german) interview with one of the denuvo people.
On the other hand one shouldn't take everything in that interview as gospel either. He did say denuvo is anti-tamper technology and not really drm. Which is false.
