“Emulation is evil”? Are you talking about this book?
The book argues that “pirates have unfortunately tarnished emulation’s original goal of preserving gaming heritage,” and that “there should be an acceptable length of time where developers get paid for their hard work and it must be up to them to decide when the time is perfect to open up the game to everyone (including emulators).”
Nevertheless, the book argues that “game emulation is not necessarily detrimental,” and that “the use of emulators to bring some of the old and nostalgic games back to life on PCs is popular.”
They’re addressing the idea that people will emulate brand-new games specifically in order to pirate them, not fearmongering about older games. This is not the place for your useless hyperbolic 180-character tirades on Twitter. Talk about things people actually say.
I just made my view on Denuvo clear: I don’t like them, they’re hurting the video game industry more than they’re helping it, so they can fuck off.
It’s a fact that their tweet about their book was ratio’d. Most people probably haven’t read it, me included but that’s not the point. It just shows the view the public has on Denuvo.
It’s also a fact that Denuvo decreases the performance of games, to a point where even legit buyers pirated a game because it ran better on their PCs than the official version.
There are enough reasons to dislike Denuvo and no one in their right mind should be defending them - this is my point of view.
This is a free place where everyone can express their opinion and it’s okay that you don’t agree with mine but there’s absolutely no reason to get personal.
And I’m making my statement clear: I had to look up what “ratio’d” even means, because it’s a term that would only be used by people that believe any conversations on Twitter even matter. The format is terrible for honest discourse.
The article itself points to Denuvo being willing to hire independent reviewers of people’s choice to verify that Denuvo, when implemented well, does not affect game performance. The article also has a number of rational explanations as to why game builds that people claim “prove Denovu decreases performance” are not always the best proof.
If they’ve picked reviewers, and they’re people you don’t trust, that’s a perfectly fair stance for argument. But requesting an independent review makes perfect sense to me. If, on the other hand, they prove themselves right, it would not be the first time “hero internet detectives” got things completely wrong.
We’re bringing some bad behaviors from Reddit and Twitter here. Let’s not start with not reading the article.
I read the article and they can hire all the reviewers they want, but my experience with DRM is not a positive. I haven’t gained any benefit from it, but instead barriers to getting the game to work when I want it to. Even more so since getting a steam deck, and now going periods where I don’t have internet access.
The benefits of no DRM versus DRM have become even more prevalent since then with games just working with no additional work arounds to renew the license for games that don’t have DRM.
These pitches of DRM not being a negative are corporate ones. Why should I care about whatever excuses they make when the only concern for me is one as the end consumer. They are only selling points to me if I’m a customer of denuvo or an employee of denuvo. I am not being paid enough to try and spin my negative experiences with DRM as a positive.
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“Emulation is evil”? Are you talking about this book?
They’re addressing the idea that people will emulate brand-new games specifically in order to pirate them, not fearmongering about older games. This is not the place for your useless hyperbolic 180-character tirades on Twitter. Talk about things people actually say.
I just made my view on Denuvo clear: I don’t like them, they’re hurting the video game industry more than they’re helping it, so they can fuck off.
It’s a fact that their tweet about their book was ratio’d. Most people probably haven’t read it, me included but that’s not the point. It just shows the view the public has on Denuvo.
It’s also a fact that Denuvo decreases the performance of games, to a point where even legit buyers pirated a game because it ran better on their PCs than the official version.
There are enough reasons to dislike Denuvo and no one in their right mind should be defending them - this is my point of view.
This is a free place where everyone can express their opinion and it’s okay that you don’t agree with mine but there’s absolutely no reason to get personal.
And I’m making my statement clear: I had to look up what “ratio’d” even means, because it’s a term that would only be used by people that believe any conversations on Twitter even matter. The format is terrible for honest discourse.
The article itself points to Denuvo being willing to hire independent reviewers of people’s choice to verify that Denuvo, when implemented well, does not affect game performance. The article also has a number of rational explanations as to why game builds that people claim “prove Denovu decreases performance” are not always the best proof.
If they’ve picked reviewers, and they’re people you don’t trust, that’s a perfectly fair stance for argument. But requesting an independent review makes perfect sense to me. If, on the other hand, they prove themselves right, it would not be the first time “hero internet detectives” got things completely wrong.
We’re bringing some bad behaviors from Reddit and Twitter here. Let’s not start with not reading the article.
I read the article and they can hire all the reviewers they want, but my experience with DRM is not a positive. I haven’t gained any benefit from it, but instead barriers to getting the game to work when I want it to. Even more so since getting a steam deck, and now going periods where I don’t have internet access.
The benefits of no DRM versus DRM have become even more prevalent since then with games just working with no additional work arounds to renew the license for games that don’t have DRM.
These pitches of DRM not being a negative are corporate ones. Why should I care about whatever excuses they make when the only concern for me is one as the end consumer. They are only selling points to me if I’m a customer of denuvo or an employee of denuvo. I am not being paid enough to try and spin my negative experiences with DRM as a positive.