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Before typing up that wall of false equivalence, you should have checked my comment history, comrade.
And once again, complaining about people trying to stop others from falling for the thieving tricks of late stage capitalism makes you an accomplice. If you’re not a neofeudal capitalist bootlicker and really do think that capitalism is unjust, then don’t complain when others are trying to educate the masses about the ways they can opt out, fight back, and make a difference.
DRM is theft. It infects games, cars, farm equipment, dishwashers, refrigerators, televisions, and every aspect of our lives. We will own nothing and be bled dry for it. That’s not a prediction, we’re already there. Stop defending it. Stop trying to silence opposition. Either own your opposition or own your bootlicking. You can’t have it both ways.
do we really need a “This game has Denuvo so I’m not going to buy it” comment whenever a game with Denuvo is in the news
Yes. As with all social injustice and corruption, we are ethically obligated to draw attention to it every time. Allowing corporate theft against consumers to be quietly accepted because you are more annoyed by the backlash than rampant corporate theft makes you an accomplice.
Don’t be an accomplice.
There are valid reasons for some people to be stuck. For example, work computers they have no control over or niche software that will not work in WINE or Winboat. I know someone who still has Windows 98 because of a piece of ancient embroidering software that no longer exists, will not run on newer versions of Windows, and requires a hardware dongle that doesn’t work under Winboat or WINE. I tried. I spent weeks on it.
I’ve bought almost everything they’ve released. The one major exception is Stellar Blade, which they infected with Denuvo malware. By the time they remove the malware — if they ever remove the malware — the amount I will be willing to pay is far less than what they asked for. Maybe $20 if I’m bored. Fuck Sony.
When they released Stellar Blade with Denuvo, it was an easy decision to skip it. I will normally buy anything that even remotely souls-like, but they can go fuck themselves with that anti-consumer behavior. Then there is the fact that still haven’t released Ghost of Yotei on PC, so whenever they get around to that it will be too little, too late.
Which includes many of the wargaming, traditional art, and queer Discord servers my partner and I use. Never assume that when a bad actor says “adult content” they mean hardcore porn and snuff, they mean everything that doesn’t conform to their ideal christofascist ethnostate purity. And now they have a list of all the “dangerous” nonconformists while blocking everyone else from being exposed to “dangerous” ideas. This should chill people to the bone. Nobody should be okay with this anywhere, in any capacity, in any quantity, whatsoever.
What about the DLC?