Mass Effect: Andromeda was released on March 23rd and was powered by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Denuvo is being used by a lot of publishers lately to protect their games, however it appears that EA’s latest title has already been cracked.
Funny thing is that the game has been cracked long before an official post-launch patch has been released.
While it took crackers almost ten days to crack the game, Mass Effect: Andromeda is not the fastest cracked Denuvo game. That ‘honour’ goes to Resident Evil 7 as it was cracked almost five days after its launch.
As we’ve already said, publishers and developers are free to remove Denuvo at any time, so it will be interesting to see whether EA will remove it in a future patch.
For what it’s worth, and since we’ve heard some false reports about Denuvo affecting a game’s performance, we did not experience any performance issues caused by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech in Mass Effect: Andromeda.
It’s also worth noting that it’s unclear whether Mass Effect: Andromeda uses the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech or not. We do know for a fact, though, that Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 will be using it.
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I don’t know about affecting performance but I can tell you it’s made my life difficult. There were three instances where the game was simply loading (for too long) and then I got a message saying something along the lines of “the game was tampered and will now exit”. Never got a scrernshot though. If it happens again I will get one.
Stop lying
stop shilling
it happened to me when I started Dxtory software or put any USB drive to PC. Only false alarm
Did MA:E used denuvo v3 or the new v4 ?
so denuvo devs cant do anything right?
Exactly. I’ve been saying it for a while now, & here’s the proof of it; this is all just band-aid fixes. In order to make a truly new version of Denuvo that will hold up for any real lengths of time, they need to delve deep into the coding & restructure massive parts of the program, which is something that requires both time & money, obviously, just like the original version did.
This is just them shoring up the walls of the castle, even as the besiegers re-stock their ammunition supplies, rather than them completely outflanking & subsequently forcing the attackers to retreat for a period of time.
“This is just them shoring up the walls of the castle, even as the
besiegers re-stock their ammunition supplies, rather than them
completely outflanking & subsequently forcing the attackers to
retreat for a period of time – never mind routing their invasion force,
completely.”
Dude wtf you talking about? This is one man stealth operation, CPY Snake….SNAAAAAAKEEEEE!!!
Just one group making a mockery of denuvo and the rest of the scene groups.
There are no castles or walls, there is one infiltrator passing through the cracks of the fortress like a shadow.
Good point, that analogy works too.
So, it’s like this, huh?
http://vogaejapon.free.fr/Samourai/Doc/Les%20Armes%20des%20Ninjas_fichiers/Ninja_012.jpg
it’s still the old version, was confirmed on cs rin ru. Nier Automata has the new version though
“Funny thing is that the game has been cracked long before an official post-launch patch has been released.”
Well its official cpy cracks whatever he feels like.
“For what it’s worth, and since we’ve heard some false reports about
Denuvo affecting a game’s performance, we did not experience any
performance issues caused by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech in Mass Effect:
Andromeda.”
Cracked denuvo still uses denuvo though, doom removed it as did homefront the revolution.
Since we are on the denuvo topic, 2dark, that indie game from alone in the dark creator using denuvo, it has like 2000 sold copies on steam…PFFTTTTTTTT so much for denuvo. Cant say denuvo is helping ghost recon wildlands to push any sales figures either, or should i mention the free trial of dishonored 2 that is coming out due to the meh sales?
Make better games devs and optimize them, if not, i can just pick another game from steam that is optimized AND cheaper, piracy is for those who are not gonna buy the game anyway, in which case if they cant pirate it, they will pirate something else.
” I Know atleast 5 people within my own Steam friends list who would pay for the game when it’s discounted”
???? What game?
Mass effect is not on steam.
“I never heard of this 2Dark game, looks like it’s just a game nobody cares about.”
looks like it, denuvo didnt save it despite they went against their kickstart promises and spend alot of money to use it.
So i guess you are talking about dishonored 2?
Obviously when a game is cheap people will buy it even if its a bad port, eg arkham knight got alot of sales when it was sold dirt cheap, obviously it is better buying it dirt cheap than pirating. Thats not my point, my point is people who buy games would rather buy something else than a bad port, they got plenty of options and people who dont buy games, well they dont buy games so they wont buy it when its cheap.
So my theory is highly accurate, its just you that doesnt get it.
” Even I personally pirated a few games that I “usually” buy later on discount,”
“but I can’t say the same for a million other people.”
Thats the thing, you CANT but i can, because i have been collecting stats for years. For example there is not even this “million of other people” that you are talking about, you dont have the numbers.
Don’t take it personally but you and your 5 steam “friends” suck.
Oh and I know of hundreds of millions of people who believe in zombie Jesus and like to eat his flesh and drink his blood on Sundays.
Also I know of hundreds of millions of people who believe politicians are telling the truth and the elections can change something.
If my friends say something is true, it must be true because there are millions of people like my friends who are equally stupid and believe the same things, despie the fact statistics dissagree with me and my friends.
That’s the evolution of our brains unfortunately, as proven by some relatively recent psychological research/experiments. I’m 2 lazy to look it up but it’s true. “Social” parts of the brain make the actual decisions for you in a very short (200 ms IIRC) time that you’re unable to even notice. Then you just use a fallacy like “other people say it so it’s the Universal Truth™” or any other post-pseudo-rationalization.
Zombie jesus? Try a billion people who follow the teachings of a pedophile.
if you wanna buy mass effect andromeda for 30 bucks, by all ”
means, but i doubt origin will give you that opportunity, unless the game continues not to sell and they get desperate.
“When there is a chance to pirate a game that I am not entirely sure I will like, I pirate”
Because there are no demos and games cannot be trusted to work on your pc due to bad optimization.
“Keep in mind this post isn’t about all me”
So far thats what you describing.
” there are a million others like me”
You are the one who says that though. No proof. Not stats.
“I am an example of why Denuvo CAN PREVENT PIRACY and therefore Help
bring in more cash to the game publishers and as a result help game
developers from going out of a job.”
This is exactly what i am trying to explain to you, you freaking moron, denuvo does not bring in more cash, most high selling games did not use denuvo. Most games that are uncracked have low sales, denuvo costs alot. Wherever a studio closes down or not will not be decided by a few sales from people who decided “how about not pirating a game today and buying it instead?” Becuase the vast majority of pirates do not buy games, so they are not part of the market and the sales figure show that those “million” people that are “like you” DONT EXIST, they do not buy games that because they cant pirate them, if they did then denuvo would have worked and the pc sales would have skyrocketed, instead of that we see pc sales dropping because there are too many games, too much competition too much saturation and people choose not to buy generic, broken, buggy, unoptimized games and pick another game that has a better price and value for the money.
GEEZ, its like you are a 5 year old and i have to explain it to you.
“and I can say with 100% confidence, that Denuvo is good for the industry’s future.”
Confidence based on what? I base my view on numbers, denuvo is not pushing any copies, the only one who makes money out of this is denuvo itself not the games using it.
” And results have shown it doesn’t have any impact on the buyer’s hardware or affect performance.”
Results have shown it does not have any impact on sales either, but we dont talk about that one do we?
“The people fighting against Denuvo only sound like those paranoid feminists, or are actual pirates themselves.”
It is true that the boycotting of denuvo sounds like people who want to pirate the games using it, but looking at the sales of games not using denuvo and games using denuvo, we can arrive at the weird conclusion that there is a sizeable number of people who do boycott games with denuvo. Why? Because they dont feel like they own the product, like this is a new version of starfoce only instead of screwing your pc, it makes sure you cant mod the game.
“Like I said, I personally know like 5 people in my own friends list who
would rather pirate than buy for cheap. If there are 5 people I
personally know of, how many are there in the world who I don’t know of?
I wonder.”
and i wonder how can you project the opinion of 5 of your friends to “millions” of people who should and must have the same views and not on the stats themselves.
Bob and Tim say their favorite team will win, so it must be true.
“And even if you did, what proof do you have that with/without Denuvo it would have sold more / less?”
What proof do you have to the contrary, for that matter?
See, every time someone brings this up, I now comfortably point out how Hollywood’s been screaming about “every download is a lost sale!” for decades, which has been absolutely destroyed time & time again, culminating in Denuvo not delivering the mythical sales figures that publishers have been crying over for decades now, either.
Also, only a minority of those total downloads you brought up actually equate to people both capable of, & also willing to pay for a game in the first place, so at best, Denuvo’s effect on sales figures is marginal, if even.
So, yeah, try again, kiddo.
Jesus, you sound like a shill.
So, your argument is basically the same baseless propaganda Hollywood’s been vomiting out for decades?
Yeah, okay, f*ck off, kid.
The complaint is the same as always; for one thing, Denuvo doesn’t do sh*t for piracy, just like nothing before it did, whereas in a few years, it’ll be affecting actually legitimate customers when it stops working properly, while the pirates, who got rid of the damn thing through the crack, won’t have to deal with this sh*t.
The music industry started complaining about “downloaders” years before Hollywood, but it was Hollywood that really streamlined the whining. From there, eventually, video game publishers adopted the excuse in order to justify their switch to a multi-platform focus come 2006 & the new console generation. “Hollywood” in this case is just another way of saying the MPAA, RIAA, & ESA – the trinity of whiney little b*tches that hasn’t shut up about piracy in just about two decades, now.
Seriously, it’s 2017, & I still have to explain the obvious to people. Oh, good old Internet….. never change on me, darling.
What the f*ck? What does a Humble Bundle have to do with piracy? What, you think just because someone pirated something, they’re automatically, by definition NEVER going to pay for it, ever?
Yeah, no, try again. A lot of people who pirate actually buy it later on at a discounted price, or through Humble Bundle, or through whatever.
“Sensical arguments”? What sensical arguments. You vomited out a bunch of bullsh*t propaganda & tried to pass it off as facts, that’s not an argument, that’s the same tedious bullsh*t idiots like you have been doping up on for decades, now, & it’s gotten to the point wherein it’s now beyond ridiculous.
The hell else are you going to throw at me next? That everyone in the world has access to broadband Internet on a steady basis?
20%? What? What? Who ever mentioned the number “20%”? What is this so-called “20%”? Where’d you get it from? What’s your source for it – oh, wait, you don’t have one.
– ” BUT, I have solid and HUGE numbers that ARE interested in playing the game.”
This is not a “sensical argument” with proof. This is you making vague claims about stuff.
You want sensical? Okay;
“So what about all the new game devs that are just learning the art of game design? ”
This makes no sense, especially now that Steam has a refund program, which means you can complete a short game & then turn it right back in for a full refund.
“Every game is different, and not every developer can make a 10/10 game. Then you’ll be forced to live with like 10 games ever created.”
And? What’s the point of protecting a game that’s not worth buying in the first place? What, you think Denuvo increases sales to a bad game? F*ck no, so this argument, is, once again, moot.
“Why don’t you visit all those sites, add up all the seeds and leechers count and tell me piracy doesn’t affect gaming.”
Why don’t you track down a few downloaders & ask them why they pirate in the first place? Here’s a few examples;
– I want to try it for free, before I buy it (largely moot now that Steam has a refund program, but yeah, not everything is on Steam, so still relevant)
– I can’t afford it at the moment
– I just don’t want to pay for it, because I don’t think it’s worth paying for, period.
– I downloaded it to get to the crack, so I could dump the DRM that’s choking my experience with an online check (all U-BE-SOFT games, for example)
– My country’s not being sold to, “because politically-motivated trade embargo.”
– My country’s overpricing video games (see: Australia & associated distribution costs, for example)
You think Denuvo has had any effect on these reasons, what-so-ever? Get real, kid. Reasons like these above constitute the vast majority of all pirated downloads, & those downloads aren’t about to turn into legal sales “because Denuvo”, as much as whiney little b*tches like yourself think they will.
“What proof do you have that games without Denuvo wouldn’t have done any better? Lol. Try better next time.”
What proof do you have that games with Denuvo have actually done any better? Oh, wait, you don’t.
“If there’s even one kid who cries daddy daddy please buy me that game and he succeeds, it’s a win for the developers.”
Uh, what? You think a kiddie young enough to whine to daddy knows how to torrent a video game? Yeah, okay, sure thing, kiddo. And even if he does, I doubt “daddy” is about to spend upwards of 60 euros on a video game just because “whiney little brat” asks in his “whiney little voice.”
Wow, you’re like those idiots who think teenagers downloading music = lost sales. LOL.
“I gave u numbers.”
Uh, yeah, no, you gave me vague claims, assumptions, & allegations backed up by “I have [insert].”
“Also denuvo games won’t work in future? Lol.”
Video game coding is already ageing badly, you can see plenty of evidence to this fact in older games which only run in compatibility modes, or some such legacy feature-based environments in the most recent Windows releases. Adding a DRM to the mix, a piece of software specifically designed to prevent tampering to the source code only increases the chances for serious issues to occur, so, yeah, Denuvo is a serious, potential threat to a consumer’s right to access their legally purchased product, in the long-term.
Christ, I’m so f*cking tired of these DRM anti-consumer assclowns.
“with the idea of never paying for it, ever, even if we all could afford it. The company just lost 60×6 = 360$.”
Ridiculous. Did you have any intentions of buying it if it wasn’t available as a free download? No? Well then in that case, the company lost 0x0 = $0.
You’re using Hollywood’s moronic “every download is a sale lost” mentality, which is dumb enough to listen to when they use it, without having actual non-corporate slaves parroting it as well.
Ummm dude you really know nothing. Most people who pirate can’t afford it. You know what really costs publishers money DENUVO. They ask $1 Million dollars plus for their software. An even bigger problem is G2A and 3rd party sites. Because games are made so expensive people resort to other measures. People buy games from G2A, more than 70% of keys sold on G2A are made from credit card fraud. Then the game companies get hit with credit card call backs. They thus lose the money of games purchased with stolen card info and lose a copy of a game. Most people who pirate won’t buy the game. If gaming companies went after G2A and third party sellers they would make way more money. And saying there are more than a billion downloads on sites like PirateBay is a stupid analogy. There are probably more than 100 million torrents with 0 seeders or leechers. And all the torrent sites share the same trackers so if you find Mass Effect – CPY on 6 sites they are all literally the same torrent.
I agree with your logic. Nevertheless, I am glad this sh*t gets pirated. The game industry has extremely consumer-unfriendly practices these days. For example, being completely unable to resell games. It’s a f’ing joke. That’s why I don’t feel any compassion towards the industry at all.
I noticed one thing with denuvo games: denuvo is not cause of technical problems, technical problems are cause for denuvo”. Ofc this is not apply for all titles with this drm.
Nice. Anti-consumer policy set on fire once again. I wonder how many burns they need to understand.
Anti piracy
anti temper if you wanna be precise and pro corporate suit. Screw modders.
It would be anti-piracy if it was developed transparently and had an extensive demo or trial or at least be protected by basic customer rights like right to return within x time from purchasing, so customer could safely check the product before buying. But if you get no trial, no returns and drm on top of that, this is a peak of disrespect for customer, you are not getting any more anti-customer than this. Developer is doing everything to prevent you from testing the game before buying and from returning it if it is not satisfying, while giving you no warranty on anything. Imagine that with cars for example, no test drive, no warranty, a blind purchase after which manufacturer has no responsibilities.
It’s not that they don’t understand, it’s that their entire business is based off of this software. What are you gonna do? Aske Denuvo to go out of business?
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“Mass Effect: Andromeda has been cracked in 10 days”
Nope!
Game files were available on 17 March not 23 March and game was use old version of Denuvo not revamped version of Denuvo
“it will be interesting to see whether EA will remove it in a future patch.”
For ME:A never but they remove Denuvo from TF2…
“and game was use old version of Denuvo not revamped version of Denuvo”
Nice try, but yeah, no.
The cat and mouse game continues
Lol its kinda funny though.
“denuvo is uncrackable” says arkham knight”
CPY cracks it
Ok that was a prototype version, what about the updated version? Updated arkham knight, mgsv and mad max.
CPY recracks all of them after he cracked doom and rise of the tomb raider.
“ok but what about indie games like inside…oh wait that one got cracked, but what about sherlock holmes”
CPY cracks it.
“Ok but japanesse games what about god eater and tales of berseria….”
CPY cracks it
“Ok but just cause 3 is still uncracked, ha take that CPY”
CPY cracks it.
“WE STILL HAVE HITMAN”
CPY cracks it
“Far cry primal is still…”
Nope CPY cracked it
“YES BUT WATCHDOGS 2 HAS THE NEW VERSION OF”
CRRRRRACCCKED. RECORD TIME
“crap, ok resident evil 7, GO, stay uncracked for a few weeks will you?”
CPY cracks it in record time and cracks battlefield 1 as well.
Mass effect bombs, “well whatever the game istill uncrackable so people will have to buy it so they can mock it”
CPY: NOPE!!!!!
Its like CPY is mocking them, i know its not the case and it just coincidences but it is so freaking funny.
“THIS IS THE NEW VERSION, IT WILL HOLD UP FOR WEEKS, SO ALL YE FILTHY PIRATES WILL GET TO CHOKE THIS Y-”
10 days later…….
Hiroshima, b*tch.
In other news, Black Sails ended 🙁
“In other news, Black Sails ended :(”
I dont like pirates.
>.<
What's wrong with you.
😛
Lol’d. I think he dropped out after Season 1, actually, as he hasn’t been in any interviews or anything in recent years. Regardless, they were actually getting better & better with each season, culminating with Season 4, which is undoubtedly one epic piece of TV & also wraps up the Treasure Island prequel in an ungodly excellent manner.
Regardless, it was never going to run very long anyway, after all, it’s Starz. Their standing record is 4 seasons, courtesy of the Spartacus prequel they had to make because of cancer guy.
Nice one, though 😛
holy $hit they cracked battlefield 1?! how!? when?
Some months ago.
Yup as well as mirrors edge and i think quantum break, also the last sherlock holmes game and tales of berseria. CPY seems to crack every game he bothers to play. The rest… he ignores till he decides to play them. Also homeftont said “screw it” and they removed the drm. Oh and like i said 2dark sits at 2000 sales or so, so much for denuvo.
Not even worth pirating.
True. Complete waste of broadband.
More like complete waste of resources, why did they even let them make this game?
“One extra payday before the IP dies completely.”
Screw broadband, my time is far more precious to be wasted on Andromeduh.
took the words outta my mouth
they’ll have to pay ME to play this garbage game
Is that right ?
No, its pure fallacy. Most of these tools are merely regurgitating what they have been told.
not true. Just because some indian designer was boycotting white people that doesn’t mean the game is entirely trash.
True. The game is entirely trash because of the teen fan-fiction level of writing, horrible amateur animations, Dragon Inquisition-like questing and bugs.
It’s trash.
No, you’re right, it’s not trash because it has a racist pr*ck/s working on it, it’s trash because the racist pr*ck/s working on it made a trash game.
Simple as.
Dude, Manveer left BioWare awhile ago :
What, you haven’t heard about the “I Hate Men” animator? Point being, they just happen to be racists, who made a bad game, it’s not a bad game because they’re racists.
“Just because some indian designer”
He wasn’t Indian. Some American Sikh guy or something.
Have you seen his skin color or the people he’s boycotting? Besides where do Sikhs reside? Come on Jack 1+1 here buddy. I’ve got an indian friend and I know some Hindi myself. Manveer just went berserk, Murica happened to him.
Lol don’t be silly. If any game was worth pirating its this one.
I’d rather leave that hard drive space empty for an emergency.
“emergency” huehue
Jesus, it is not E.T. the video game. It is a disappointing Mass Effect game. The perfect game to pirate. Watch TB’s WTF is Mass Effect Andromeda and you would know the game isn’t trash. It has lots of bugs and a sub-par story but most people rated it above average.
I wish they had waited until patch 1.05. Those stupid flight sequences…
Big ugly fat f aggot.
Loser.
None of you should be happy when games get cracked this fast, this crap hurts PC market, companies will hesitate to release their sh*t on PC, this idiot says it got cracked in ten days, but if he actually did any research he’ll know the game been out since march 16th march not 23rd
So they actually took them 3 weeks to crack it, which is good, game already passed it’s major selling point.
I don’t know about the others here, but I’m happy with this for another reason. Many games that had DRM in the past can’t be played nowadays, even if you have the disc. It may happen due to the fact that the DRM can’t recognize a new OS or new hardware, or maybe because the game were activated more than 3 times, etc. I have Bulletstorm on my steam but I’m unable to play it due to GFWL. It sucks so much.
Those people that aren’t happy about said news are mostly for the company and against the consumer anyway.
Or they’re being paid to make Denuvo look good. Wouldn’t surprise me, considering how much money they’ve been losing, courtesy of CPY.
” this crap hurts PC market,”
Like i said, it has zero effect on the sales when the game doesnt get crap, denuvo proved that, sales are not related to how fast games get cracked or at all. As for hesitating to release games on pc, more and more devs put their games on pc the last few years before denuvo was even a thing.
at this point if they try to implant any new always online DRM
people will just tear their throats with refunds
the days of diablo 3 is long over, the customer has more rights and more power than ever
and honestly if they do, it will just boost the piracy rate, game companies aren’t stupid
they’re just greedy
“game companies aren’t stupid
they’re just greedy”
Actually they’re very much both, but yeah, their primary one is greed, not stupidity.
Relax there, Yves Guillemot.
The Witcher 3 was drm free, was pirated and was a big success anyway.
You know what actually hurts the PC market? It’s not Denuvo and it’s not pirates. It’s sh**ty devs and sh**ty publishers releasing sh**ty games like Andromeduh.
they should optimize them too.
Imagine if they actually paid attention to PC in it’s entirety, they could gain so much more money if they weren’t so busy trying to dominate and control the open market and just optimize, while also making good games in general.
yup.
1 release half arsed port with horrible perfomance and drm.
2.release a good pc version and keep making money for years to come?
NAH TOO MUCH WORK, DO 1
They are not mutually exclusive, you know. Do you really think if Bioware hadn’t put Denuvo in Andromeduh, suddenly the animations would be Witcher-like, the writing would be mature and interesting and the game bug-free?
But Geralt has the turning circle of an ocean liner and easily manages to fall down stairs!
That doesn’t really apply to Mass Defect: Androgyny though, since it runs really well on PC, it just has a lot of bugs that apply to ALL platforms.
At 55GBs install size, the file compression system could be better, though.
I wonder what effect that would have on performance though. The more compressed a game is, the more the CPU has to work at runtime to decompress the game’s archives/libs. Given the vast scale and size of ME:A and the fact that it isn’t procedural (so everything is stored to disk; nothing is generated at runtime) it’s understandable why the file size is so large.
Eh. The CPU pressure shouldn’t be too bad, even if they went further with it.
Regardless, yeah, the file size isn’t as bad as some other games, that’s true.
Massively Defective: The Androgynous Syndrome even managed to shame Denuvo 2017 into breaking?
Wow. That’s some powerful Social Justice right there.
It is funny though every time a studio goes sjw they experiance massive FAIL, like the planet itself hates them.
It’s almost like the self-important, poisonous and highly vocal SJW cult doesn’t represent the views of the vast overwhelming majority of society and that most people, Leftist/liberal media and activists at university/college campuses excepted, don’t care about them!
What? What? SERIOUSLY?
NO F*CKING WAY!
Yes way, sirree!
You don’t say?!
Damn, here I thought it was just a massive coincidence…..
It’s almost like, oh, I don’t know….. companies should stop listening to analysts & the mainstream media?
Wow, what an amazing revelation I just had :O
;D
Mass Effect Andromeda wasn’t using the new denuvo version
Yeah, sure, keep telling yourself that.
I will. You are fully aware that people has the ability to scan the exe and determine what version it is right?
I am, so how about linking some actual evidence, rather than making blanket statements?
After all, “he said, she said” works all day, but in the end, it means nothing.
But in this case you’re arguing with zero backup. There is zero proof it is using a new versio, No article online at all proving it is. I’m going off the word of several users over at cs rin (one includes Voksi) and having personally scanned the exe of both mass effect and sniper ghost warrior 3. The latter uses a revamped version
Bruh just post a screenshot of Cs.rin forums
mass effect is using old version not new version
I’m aware of this.
oops sorry i replied to you, was meant for the other guy, the numbnut that thinks just cause its 2017 they will use new version
But, that makes no sense, I mean, why.
So now we’re down to a week and 3 days to crack the already useless DRm. It doesn’t matter how many times you try to “bulk” it up, it’ll still get broken down by another person. Whatever is built by man, can also be broken by man. We are a flawed species, so it’s natural to find all sorts of flaws in our work and design.
Well they asked for this, downloading now just to pirate an EA game, they owe me also 50GB download, they should pay me more.
still cant download ea games in your country?
Not only that, you can’t even access to your own games in your library.
well wtf you want? To own the games you bought like the good old days?
Shame on Me!
You should download and delete the game over and over again until they lose so many sales they go bankrupt.
:)) Good point, going to lose them millions of sales.
I will pay money for a very good game! Why can’t developers get that through there heads?
It’s not that they can’t get that through their heads, Bioware would love to do a very good game. They just can’t.
no point to pirate games any more when you can g2a or cdkeys it for $35 and its virus free.
Nobody with a shred of self respect and a minimum standard regarding what games they play would waste their time playing Andromeduh, let alone paying for it.
Or we can pirate it and its virus free
Agreed.
i dont care how cheap the game is, i wont buy into denuvo, its a always online drm, what happens when denuvo server closes, it will happen its just a matter of time, then you wont be able to play the game at all as it will try to connect to a dead server
Here’s a crazy idea: instead of wasting millions on bullshit DRM that only hurts consumers, how about spending that money on finishing a game before releasing it?
Why did EA even bother to fund this, &/or Denuvo’s development?
Spite.
Exactly.
Yeah, buuuuuuuut…..
#Logic.
It’s like how AMC could make a better Walking Dead show that isn’t costing them viewers by the millions every year, but that would require them to actually hire good showrunners, writers, &, of course, to reduce the episode count, which means reducing the amount of advertisement time they can sell per-episode, which amounts to “losing” money, as far as they’re concerned, regardless of the potential viewership boost they’d get from just having a better show, period.
I mean holy mother of f*ck, that season finale was like “A 60 Minute Guide Into How to NOT Film Action Scenes.”
Then again, this ties into why Season 8 next year won’t be the last season, regardless of how much it should be the last season, only in part because they’re almost caught up to the comics anyway, & the show is going to take a nosedive like a little b*tch off a cliff once they get into original content.
(See: Game of Turds Season 6 for more on how original content defiles adaptations – especially when you’ve got sh*t writers stretching out a single 30-page comic to fit a 50-minute episode)
Now we wait and see Denuvo go into Damage control mode: “These 10 days are very crucial to the games’ sales and Denuvo DID make a difference lol”.
Praise Lord CPY!!
I think piracy is not problem for publishers or developers. Good example is Witcher 3 and GTA 5 ,as we know gta5 was released when both x360 and ps3 were hacked but gta 5 business was awesome and witcher 3 has sold over 25 million copies as we know witcher 3 was not protected by denuvo
Why ask idiotic questions?
“My face is tired” from reading all of this.
😉
Hah. Don’t worry, you won’t be missing anything. BioWare is never going to fix the animations. They’re going to handle a few of the bugs, sure, but the overwhelming majority of the issues are here to stay, “my face is tired” included.
I hadn’t, no, last I heard was their launch patch “won’t include any changes” thing. This is all new to me O.o
– Improving the appearance of eyes for humans and asari characters
Well, at least they’ll blink properly now (supposedly)
– Improving localized voice over lip sync
Hm. Let’s see how far this goes.
– Fixing Ryder’s movements when running in a zig zag pattern
Yeah, so this was a bug that got tagged as a “priority fix” only 6 months too late, basically.
This is interesting, though;
Over the next two months we’ll be rolling out additional patches which will go even deeper and look to improve several areas of the game:
– More options and variety in the character creator
– Improvements to hair and general appearance for characters
– Ongoing improvements to cinematic scenes and animations
– Improvements to male romance options for Scott Ryder
– Adjustments to conversations with Hainly Abrams
“This is just a taste of what’s in store as we continue to support Mass Effect: Andromeda.”
And that’s the basic problem, see; Andromeda didn’t sell well, & it has no Season Pass, so post-launch monetisation is limited, at best, which means EA is likely not too interested in long-term support for the game. I’m thinking, all things considered, regardless of this announcement, the actual changes they make over the next few months before EA completely cuts them off will only go so far, really.
Still, even minor tweaks will be nice, I agree, even if, nowhere near enough.
Then again, it’s EA, they probably get the licenses for free (having partially funded Denuvo’s development), so they could, quite likely, choose to leave it on out of pure spite, if nothing else.
they wont always crack until game is well patched too thats why we havn’t seen dishonered 2 yet
Knew i wouldn’t have long to wait. Thanks CPY.
“For what it’s worth, and since we’ve heard some false reports about Denuvo affecting a game’s performance, we did not experience any performance issues caused by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech in Mass Effect: Andromeda.”
Unless you’ve played the game without Denuvo, you can’t really say that.
Paying Customers: Have to Log in & Phone Home
Pirates: Fuq Yo Home
I love it… I hope to god they crack every Denuvo game and they make no money for all this nonsense. I will never pirate a game because I don’t wanna muck up my machine with God knows what and buy my games to support. But I’m 100% behind others pirating these DRM games. So MANY LAYERS OF DRM. Go Go Pirate Rangers 🙂
>we did not experience any performance issues caused by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech in Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Strange claim. Seems like you would have to compare performance benchmarks between official and cracked version to get to this conclusion. Did you?
Piracy is a manufactured problem so enforcement agencies (like denuvo) and lawyers can make money. Denuvo could never and would never increase sales by even one. On the other hand, file sharing leads to legitimate sales. The net effect of DRM is a negative loss since it is so anti-consumer and people end up hating you for using it (bad for branding).
Smarten up developers and tell the suits at those publishing companies that they are complete morons who are just trying to look relevant.
We can agree there sir. I am most mad that they tainted the brand (which has a huge and wonderful lore and universe), with this sub-par sci-fi game with Mass Effect stamped on it. Don’t put your C team on your biggest franchise. Should be obvious.
“I have no intention of paying money for any of these in the future”
This right here, is the point; if you never intended to pay for it in the first place, then the money isn’t lost, because the money was never going to be given to them – EVER.
“But hey acc to u I’m the only person in the world with this mentality right?”
What?
“Also according to your own statement a lot of people pirate it now so they can buy later at discount? So company not losing money there or what?”
If someone doesn’t think your product is worth paying full price for, or, alternatively, just can’t afford paying full price for it [at the moment], well then, again, not money lost, just money they were never going to have, in the first place.
“But I’ll tell u who has an approximate estimate. The people working in the industry jotting down numbers and taking notes of all this, that they are willing to shell out money to apply this drm in the first place.”
You mean the analysts who tell the idiots who hired them some bullsh*t in order to justify them keeping their jobs? You mean the morons who routinely vomit out “this is what’s most profitable at the moment” graphs? Or do you mean the idiot CEO who has to explain to his board of directors why their 40-million investment turned out to be a giant mediocrity of a sinkhole?
When publishers jumped onto the “anti-piracy” bandwagon, it was as part of the industry’s greater anti-PC initiative, otherwise known as the “PC Gaming is Dead” era, which they themselves created in order to push consoles as hard as possible, what with the advent of the new console generation back in 2006. Ever since then, they’ve routinely used it as a scapegoat & excuse, in order to justify unpopular decisions like switching from a PC-exclusive approach, to a multi-platform development mindset because they make more money that way.
“Could some publishers miscalculated? Sure, possibly, but it’s now a regular practice, so im pretty sure they are doing numbers rigjt atleast most of the time.”
“Some publishers” (read: all of them) have spent years upon years moaning, b*tching & whining to us about how “if it wasn’t for PC piracy, sales numbers would be waaaaay higher” – except, as Denuvo proved, that is simply not the case. The magical sales figures they’ve been claiming don’t exist “because piracy” have been proven to be just that – mythical delusions created in order to scapegoat managerial incompetence, time & time again.
“Also, every downloaded movie is a lost sale. Arguing against it makes u look like an idiot.”
I downloaded about a half a dozen movies last week & 3 TV seasons, of which I will only ever consider purchasing 2 movies, & 1 show, only in part because Blu-Ray prices are f*cking absurd. The overwhelming majority of people who download movies do so because they simply don’t consider the movies in question to be worth paying for in the first place. Either that, or they’re just too broke to do so, especially on a larger scale. It’s the same argument as with video games; there’s quality movies that are actually worth buying (John Wick 2, Logan, etc.) & then there’s the bullsh*t which I would never even consider paying for, which I watched once so I can ridicule the living sh*t out of, & then never watch again – Ghostbusters (2016), The Walking Dead Season 7, etc. for example.
Who looks like an idiot now, I wonder.