Romain, CCO & Studio Head at Amplitude Studios, announced that Humankind will launch without Denuvo. According to Romain, Denuvo had a negative impact on the game’s closed beta build, and as such, the team decided to launch the game without it.
As Romain said:
“Our priority is always the best possible experience for the players who buy our games and support us. Denuvo should never impact player performance, and we don’t want to sacrifice quality for you guys.
We believe that it’s possible with the right integration, which is what we wanted to test during the Closed Beta. However, we found that the way it was currently integrated was not good enough, and it’s not something we can fix before release. So, we are taking it out.”
So there you have it, straight from a developer. Denuvo can bring a noticeable performance hit in games.
Do note that these performance issues may not be similar to what we saw in Resident Evil Village. After all, Capcom released a PC patch that fixes the game’s stuttering issues without removing Denuvo.
Humankind releases on August 17th!
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This reads more like trying to score some brownie points after the RE Village debacle. Remember: companies don’t give a crap about you, only about profit
Indeed, they left the window open to put the cancer in future builds/updates as soon as they can “integrate it” as they want.
Well no, 1) no dev has had the balls to come out publicly against denuvo 2) having tried it in their own game which btw 3) is about to be released and 4) could put them against the whole industry of publishers and dev studios who have used it or will use it, so no, this is something more than that.
But also yes, if there was a moment to dare do that, this would be an ideal one.
Remember: It’s hard to profit if you truly don’t care about customers.
This is nothing but a well-known fact for years, to all gamers who capable of reason and common sense.
However the Denuvo Defense Force fanatics on the internet will either go straight deny or ignore this fact, or even try to spin it with words like “Bu.. but it will never effect performance when it’s properly implanted! It’s the developer’s fault!”.
To them, Denuvo is the second coming and a Messiah to save the PC gaming. To their eyes, Denuvo is the perfect DRM without any flaws whatsoever. Any problems caused by it are because your PC being toaster. Or maybe the developers.
DRM is cancer, and it’s even more cancerous when there are hordes of fanatics blindly defending it.
May this be the final nail in the coffin to their Corporatocracy fanaticism and blindness. And the beginning of the end of the whole DRM business, I hope.
Wait… Are there consumers defending denuvo?
There are swarms of Denuvo cultists across the less free, more crowded, and popular, ‘Influential’ forums on the internet; for example, Steam forums. Just pick any popular, normie titles that contains Denuvo, visit their Steam forum, and look for any threads mentions Denuvo.
I dare say they are not consumers; they are fawning boot-lickers who practices in voluntary slavery and corporation worshiping.
Careful,he will make a comments here everytime people called his name…
Yes, there’re many of them.
“Remaster” of 20yo PS1 game for example:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1175830/discussions/0/3070873683578418138/
you read my mind!!!
Your fellow socialists do love CCP. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6f046f3177e908048657f37867dc67a58f555214fe18162e671f64badc5e7aa0.png
Does your boyfriend’s boyfriend know what you said online?
Besides, funny how you weaseled out how your fellow brothers(who you have s*xual fantasies with) love china. Do they know you don’t like China?
denuvo always su*cked. i don’t believe they did it for their customers.
DeNuVo WoNt ImPaCt tHe GaMe PeRfOrMaNcE…..
HAHAHAHA!! https://media4.giphy.com/media/p0RDMJGgMXF96/giphy-downsized-medium.gif
many such cases
Damage control is always fun to read through “PR bulls**t”.
This sounds more like a PR movement to trying to sell the game than anything else. I wont even pirate this woke propaganda anyways, Civ already exists and went full pozzed.
Lol https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf9cacf902b54f87be3216b0d5e395b6f1db288e3ac280b9d83979141a240641.jpg
Sega should really stop using this crap in all their games
Well Capcom did just disable their sh**ty DRM but left Denuvo in there
Amplitude Studios likely just don’t want the controversy affecting their sales more than they worried about pirates playing their games.
When I first heard about this game I was hopeful that it would be a less woke/ cartoony version of Civilization but the name its self is woke.