And here comes another game for which the Denuvo anti-tamper tech has been removed. According to a number of reports, Crytek has removed Denuvo from its VR title, The Climb.
Similarly to Bethesda and Playdead, Crytek has not revealed the reasons behind the removal of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from its title.
What’s also interesting is a new rumour that surfaced yesterday. According to the rumour, Crytek has not paid its employees in Bulgaria in 3 months.
Whether this is true and has anything to do with the removal of Denuvo from The Climb remains to be seen.
The Climb is the third game for which the Denuvo anti-tamper tech has been removed. The other two games are DOOM and INSIDE.
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So whats happening ??
Companies are starting to release that Denuvo is a scam , with the meaning that they spend lots of cash for it , it reduces piracy but doesn’t boost their sales so they make no additional profit from it and instead lose money since they had to buy their services
Crytek is having financial issues so they are getting out of its boat
If anything they funded good evidence that heavy DRM doesn’t affect sales all that much (if at all). By that point of view, I’d say Denuovo has been a net gain on the consumer side of things so far.
This is why i said i cant wait for a uncrackable drm to come out in order to prove to all those morons that piracy does not affect sales because pirates, well they dont buy them.
Wanna bet ubisoft and ea wont remove anything?
Eh yeah those too are headstrong i too doubt that they will bother removing it
But the whole situation is not like it was a year ago , in the market’s eyes Denuvo is broken.
Electronic Arts, U-Be-Soft, Square Enix, & probably Warner Bros. too.
speaking of WB cpy went back and cracked arkham knight to the latest edition. Not that pirating is better than buying the premium edition for a low price.
they will stop including it once groups start being able to crack it within a few weeks like DRM usually does
Yes I bet they won’t
I wouldn’t call it a scam. It does what it’s supposed to do end of story. I hope the publishers do see how denuvo isn’t helping boost sales though.
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It doesn’t reduce piracy, it stops it until it’s cracked
Eh technically yes , but even then its cracked i believe that the game is probably forgotten and not so many people download it
Not really, if you are a pirate and desperate for these games, then you might know a guy to give you a free (few hours) time to activate any denuvo games (on any client) you like and play offline. whenever that offline playtime expires you ask for another one. there is also the paid version from 0.5$ to ~4$ with limited online play.
that sounds very russian to me
I guess it is 😀
that’s not piracy, that’s sharing. 2 totally different things. and it’s not free, you have to give something back.
that’s like saying im pirating game if i go to a friend and playthough game.
Nope, that’s piracy and it’s a bannable offense. You pay for a used fake account, game is not in your account but a fake account and fake activation. you pay money to whom that gives you the account for 2 or 3 hours not the publisher/dev/steam and after that time the account will be expired. completely different from family share, and all of those people can play at the sametime offline, you can’t do that with family share.
Let’s say your game is deactivated or there is a new update/dlc, you ask for another fake account and they give you another 2 or 3 hours to reactivate/update your game with a completely new account.
That’s not the only way you can do that
Doesn’t matter, this method is used by pirates since early denuvo days.
Sharing is caring
heh, of course.
It was removed from DOOM and Inside because they were cracked. It was removed from The Climb because Crytek is broke and Denuvo is expensive.
We gotta love CPY for that – to hell with Denuvo, it cant die soon enought!
I don’t see that happening. EA has used it since 2014, and at that time denuvo was cracked within weeks usually. Ubisoft also said they will stand by denuvo as dog next to its owner. Square Enix is another one that trusts denuvo.
These are 3 of huge companies that are probably enough for denuvo to survive.
Thats bad to hear bro. Well lets hope more cracking groups join/learn to crack this abomination as CPY do. Then surely it will fall sooner or later!
Or atleast less devs are to follow and more people learn why they should not support this and never pay for an Denuvo game.
GOG has got it all right: do right to people aka DRM free and they will support us and pay for the games. Good games sell, that has been proven time and time again!
It’s funny that they spent top dollar on this DRM and sold fewer units on PC than Witcher 3 (which was DRM free) did at the same point last year.
People tend to support devs that stand by their work. I for one bought W3 even if i couldve cracked it. Good games will sell. Bad games will drown in their lack of whatever.
“Good games will sell. Bad games will drown in their lack of whatever.”
Meritocracy <3
How dare you utter that name??! You will be reported to the cultural marxism thought police you fool! 😉
You’re going to compare this pinto bean project to The Witcher 3?? O_o
I was talking about Doom actually.
He did say bethesda.
Not in his original comment.
He didnt say crytek either.
What else isn’t he telling us?
No sh*t sherlock. Come back when you’re not comparing a niche vr game to a game like witcher 3
I was talking about Doom, of course a VR game wouldn’t sell more than Witcher, it’s not even a comparable platform.
or gta v. I think the best comparison will be far cry primal vs…. most indie games really.
Seems like this climb,
has reach it’s peak in sales.
lmao your username
I am sure this is one of Zatara’s many personalities speaking 😉
Leave Zat alone!
I called dibs first.
Now make it playable without VR.
R.I.P
Denuvo
Good trend.
I hope they wont go back to blaming PC pirates for poor sales now that the reign of Denuvo is over
over? i don’t know, denuvo is taking over the game industry and they’ve been successful, now that they made a ton of profit out of their drm, they’re going to innovate more, it’s far from over, it’s a beginning for them
The reign of Denuvo is far from over.
If they could put the extra money that goes to things like this into the game itself, It would surely sell more without DRM but business thinking is different than human thinking, Pity
Imagine when it doesn’t though, then there is no leg left for anyone to stand on, other than to just call the devs bad and their game crap.
Yeah, Then they had a really bad game or very niche idea to begin with i guess and thats not gonna bring lots of sells
Yeah, but the thing is that we the user have to come up with an excuse as to why we didn’t want to support it in the first place, that’s my point from earlier.
Sometimes its marketing or competition, Not every game will sell. There are alot of games on steam that dont sell but are good.
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Literally the first thought that came to my mind after reading the title was that “how can they even afford it” and then the article talks about their financial issue.
I never liked Crytek games that much but i think they have potential for VR, however as far as german companies go…Daedalic is my favorite. fans of Desperados and Commandos should play Shadow Tactics. it is a drm free game with demo.
also the irony that Denuvo is proving that piracy isn’t the main factor when it comes to sales apparently lol.
Denuvo won’t increase sales by even 1… it will decrease sales if anything by pissing off potentially legitimate buyers.
DRM is completely useless.
you cant say that for sure, there will be for sure people who will get overhyped and buy the game because denuvo will prevent piracy
“According to the rumour, Crytek has not paid its employees in Bulgaria in 3 months.”
But please, keep The Climb as an Occulus exclusive while twice as many Vive owners could help you get more cash in…
What’s this “turning a profit” you imply. I don’t like it! Now excuse me, i have a pile of money to burn.
So nothing new there, CEO driving ferrari while he treats his people as slaves
This VR game that very few people are interested in was not cracked
yes features that was removed
> Has not paid its employees in 3 months.
> Their game has Denuvo.
> Its also a VR platform-exclusive.
Priorities crytek… priorities…. Do you have any???
Seriously? Crytek are pulling their old ‘let’s not pay our staff’ cr@ p AGAIN.
‘Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation and WAGED LABOUR.’
Donald Duck the scumbag Yerli brothers
source?!
>What’s also interesting is a new rumour that surfaced yesterday. According to the rumour, Crytek has not paid its employees in Bulgaria in 3 months.
This should have been in the headline somehow. This is the real news.
Killer Queen has already programmed that DRM
Doomed to repeat the same cycle whenever a line of DRM dies.
Im really worried about crytek, hope it does not end.
Ledger put the sinister side best, but Nicholson and Romero where the best goofballs. Yet to see Leto.
The thing (and here is my personal bias speaking) they make the Joker too “young” you know what I mean? Ledger almost bridged the gap (he looked old on that makeup), but I still know that is a fairly young actor playing him so it kinda throw some of the fantasy off.
Good for you Crytek.I am a long way from affording VR but still good news.