Conan Exiles has just been launched via Steam’s Early Access program. According to the development team, the current Early Access version is a good representation of what Conan Exiles will be like. Naturally, the game will receive patches that will improve optimization, fix bug, and add new features and content to it.
Unfortunately, however, it appears that the game is protected by both Denuvo and Battle-Eye. Denuvo is used as an anti-piracy protection, while Battle-Eye is used as an anti-cheating measure.
According to Funcom, Denuvo does not affect the game’s performance.
“We are utilizing a widespread, industry-standard solution to combat piracy and cheating in Conan Exiles. The reason behind this is simple: to protect all the time, talent, and effort that’s going into the game.
We’ve tested for an impact on Conan Exiles’ performance, and have found no evidence that suggests that these services negatively affect how well the game runs.”
Keep in mind that Conan Exiles is an always-online title, therefore the existence of Denuvo should not really concern those interested in it. In other words, Funcom may stop supporting this game (and close its servers) long before Denuvo decides to ditch its anti-tamper tech (and close its own servers).
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Erm… what am I missing? Why use Denuvo on a online title? :v
Can it be cracked to run offline? Cracked to run on pirated servers?
*scratches head*
seem like it can run on private server with friends.
You can create a private server for friends or play it alone.
Since you can run a private server (as some say you can), I’m going to go on a limb here and speculate that they put Denuvo to get people’s attention. Maybe….
Or maybe to prevent modding or fiddling with the .exe? Microtransacions inbound so they are preventing any sort of fiddling with the files? I dunno.
This is *ss.
They will release mod tools and support steam workshop.
Oh yeah, now I remember that.
Out of options. -.-
There are always options! (grabs duct tape and piano wire)
Stop making things up.
Stop assuming.
I’m questioning.
“I dunno”
well denuvo itself is regarded as anti temper tech. on the good side they want to use it so people can’t cheat?
But then, what about the anti cheat? :v
“to protect all the time, talent, and effort that’s going into the game”
All i see is copy-paste from other survival games, nothing original.
So you’re saying that they stole other assets? Even if their mechanics are similar to other games, who are you to say that they didn’t put effort into their game?
>all the time
The nano second between ctl+v and it’s output.
>talent
The fingers that pressed ctl+v.
>effort
The person that put “all the time, talent, and effort” into this quote.
we are as braindamaged as the suits at ea that like to squander money on denuvo on always online games.
Like i said this has nothing to do with piracy it has to do with control and corporate suit practices.
Damn, it looked interesting, too bad it’s going directly into the no-buy garbage can.
Thanks, denuvo!
Wow.Denuvo for a early access title,what’s next… they will use this crap on demo and gameplay video ? Anyway this game seems doomed from the start.A developer with not a too good track record,very early access from what i can see,overprice AND denuvo.No thanks !
They already using it on Demos, Fifa and Doom so people don’t pirate free demos, lol.
Some people manage to bypass the demos so it kinda makes sense.
which game exactly ? i know they tried it with doom but never worked.
It worked with Doom for a brief period of time actually,
It worked temporarily for Doom if i recall correctly.
MMO using Denuvo? What has the world gone to?
They have Denerve to do this!!!!!
Nothing new. Plenty of MMOs back in the day came with SecuROM and similar things.
Haha, wow.
I was literally on the store page and had this game added to my cart (but was reading info on another game to purchase with it). Then I decided to switch to dsogaming to read news and wow, don’t know how I missed the Denuvo bullshit in this game.
Removed the game from the cart and purchased ARK instead. Idiot developers.
LMAO… ARK is an unoptimized piece of s#*t.
“We’ve tested for an impact on Conan Exiles’ performance, and have found
no evidence that suggests that these services negatively affect how well
the game runs.”
I wonder how much they got paid to say that.
Nice touch on (apparently, my ears could be deceiving me) sampling the original’s main theme right at the end.
Exactly what’s peoples butthurt with denuvo?
It shows that companies have no trust towards the people they are pandering too. How can we trust them if they don’t trust us; think of it that way.
If the product I pay for “works” that’s all that matters. I’m buying a video game not a car =/
And I would download a car.
Wow, the stupid car comparison again, lol.
What ? lol you and I both know that tons of people will pirate it instead of buying it. Most of these aren’t lost sales, but some of them can definitely be. For some games, this ends up making a huge difference.
“They don’t trust us”
Ofcourse they don’t trust random people to not pirate their game. I wouldn’t either, because everyone knows it’s going to happen.
So if you don’t trust people you are marketing towards, then why bother?
But, it’s an MMO… early acces no less… Not a single player campaign, you need to own this game legally to enjoy it… Why… How is it… Are these devs idiots?
A $hitty early access game needs Denovu?
pathetic.
All of this toxicity is whats pathetic :
do you realize denuvo costs money rights?
lots of money (it’s a subscribtion basiclly, and comes with a warrenty)
so if the devs is not happy about his online MMO being ran on private servers, never mind it’s a EARLY ACCESS game, he’s shelling his money on copy protection
absolutely barbaric!
Denuvo NEVER impacted performance. That was all manufactured FUD by butthurt pirates.