It appears that some Denuvo server problems prevented PC gamers from playing their legitimate copies of Batman: Arkham Knight and Mad Max. According to reports, both of these games were not launching at all in the past couple days. And while both of them seem to be working right now, a lot of reports suggest that these issues were caused by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
Due to some Denuvo server issues, PC gamers were receiving an error message while attempting to launch Batman: Arkham Knight and Mad Max. As such, gamers had to click on a Retry button multiple times in order to make both of them work. According to reports, the Denuvo authentication servers were down for almost all Warner Bros’ games and PC gamers were forced to somehow bypass these issues. This also affected Middle-earth: Shadow of War as players were unable to download its latest patch or play the game itself.
Now, this is one of the main reasons PC gamers are against the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Since a respectable number of games are using it, we don’t know what will happen when the Denuvo servers go down. Or I guess we now have a clue; players will be unable to play their legitimately purchased games.
What publishers and developers can do, in order to bypass such a thing, is remove the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from their games (once these games have been cracked). However, we’ve seen numerous publishers refusing to remove Denuvo. As such, and if and when the Denuvo servers get shut down, PC gamers will have to rely on cracks in order to play the games they have purchased.
Thankfully, we’ve seen some publishers moving away from Denuvo. Bethesda is one of those publishers who are no longer using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech in its games. However things may change as the latest version of Denuvo has not been cracked yet.
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Thats why denuvo is cancer :I
nope it’s not
your are cancer.
you’re* yes you whining little cancerous pirate
Denuvo and clowns like the one below…
“Now, this is one of the main reasons PC gamers are against the Denuvo
anti-tamper tech. Since a respectable number of games are using it, we
don’t know what will happen when the Denuvo servers go down. Or I guess
we now have a clue; players will be unable to play their legitimately
purchased games.”
And this is the main reason I think Denuvo is bad for gaming. What will happen when/if the Denuvo Developers aren’t selling enough of their DRM to Publishers to keep running and supporting the Denuvo servers? Maybe Publishers will have their Developers remove Denuvo from their games at that time, but maybe some won’t bother. This is the problem with not owning the games we buy (except from GOG).
dude no kidding denuvo is the best thing happen to pc gaming in years because of it many games are coming to the pc that would have never seen a day of light without denuvo on pc no server is 100% issueless and it will be fixed soon so stop whining and appreciate what denuvo have done for you steam has issues too
Nope.
Ermm, most games before denuvo, with exception of first party console exclusives (many MS ones now even come to PC) came to PC, and most games still don’t use Denuvo, and still come to PC anyway, so yeah, not seeing the mass benefit you describing.
Hes a known troll around here, just block him.
Clueless as usual, you don’t speak for PC gamers and you’re not one of us either, just a console troll that can’t admit piracy is a big issue with consoles as well. Funny, how is it that my son can’t play Lego Batman 3 on the PS4 when there is no internet.
Try setting the system as the Primary system via your account settings. You can do that on either Sony’s website or on the Console itself.
I know I had the same issue (I own 2 PS4s) when my internet was down temporarily recently but after setting it as a Primary Console I’m able to play without internet now.
Yeah its so great that uncracked assasin creed origins flopped in sales.
Stop whinning and appreciate what? Old games randomly deciding not to work?
You must be the biggest corporate shill in existance.
The best thing that has happen to pc gaming is indie games and AAA industry getting BTFO this year.
also those games are garbage who wanna play it anyway lol
Yea no. Those are all three completely worth playing. Stfu and gtfo hipster loser.
He’s in no way a “hipster”. He’s simply a sadly deluded and especially bitter teenager desperately attempting to be ‘edgy’ on the internet when not playing on his beloved console.
He’s also extremely salty that he can’t pirate games because he’s a devout console gamer so he puts on the self-righteous act out of sheer spite and envy. Still, it’s mildly amusing to laugh at his bitterness and semi-literate imbecilic ranting.
Yeah, because Denuvo is super uncrackable…
lol no they arent. maybe if your 12 i guess, or a console gaymer.
2 of those games are dlc/micro-transaction generators pretending to be games. and mad max is just a boring/bland game to begin with.
all games use denuvo though
No, no they do not many games are DRM free that win awards and outsell denuvo games. such as divinity 2, witcher 3, Hellblade. hell GOG sells only DRM free games.
Batman Arkham Knight is one of the best games ever made.
Shadow of War is an absolutely amazing game with a pointless option of using MT.
Mad Max is the best 7/10 game ever made.
whats it feel like to not only be wrong but also mentally challenged?
I’m quite entertained.
Your opinion, if you telling me i dont own the game i bought, then might as well downloada crack.
Face it clown, the drm backfired you are a corporate shill, you hater mods too.
Doesn’t matter, people bought them and want to play them and should be able to.
this is why u shouldnt be a pc only gamer u should also have consoles as a backup but thank god im not a stupid pc only gamer otherwise crap like this happens
Remember GFWL, not all devs removed it and those games are useless. The same thing will happen with Denuvo only more games will die than the ammount that died when GFWL was shut down forever.
Games as a Service TM
I have played it the weekend and have opened it now and is working perfecly, I really believe the problem is another and people just want a scapegoat
Obviously you can’t read…”both of these games were not launching at all in the past couple days. And while both of them seem to be working right now”…i.e. it was working at the weekend, and it’s working now…it was somewhere in between that it wasn’t. Whatever people want to blame, or whichever side people are on, Denuvo is not a good thing for the paying customer.
it’s a good thing for the paying customers and a middle finger to pirates
Warning: Do not feed the troll!
/ignore mode on
pirates can play those games with all the dlcs.
enjoying ACO ahhahahahhahah
In all my life, haven’t seen a single good news about denuvo.
Besides IT being cracked lol.
Get rekt denuhoe
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b7414ea72eb2ffd1d9fbd1cc0dccebde322b547670a4b2ccbec6367c527f090f.jpg
Love it
GOG banzai
I now own over 90 games there and couldn’t feel better about supporting a service. Truly how it should be.
Deja-vu… Games for Windows Live… We all know how this ends for users…
As far as I remember it was “unavailable” for months at the very least… I remember not beign able to play some games ( or being able to play without saving :/ )
At least GFWL is playable offline and can compete in local multiplayer, while DNV on the other hand…
Say death to denuvo.
Youre a thief
I didn’t steal your balls.
can’t steal what they dont have
Oh i think if this year has demonstrated anything, it is that ea is a thief.
Iv said to many people that when denuvo goes bust you wont be able to play the games as it wont be able to connect to denuvo server, so only option is either devs remove denuvo or you crack the games, and if we have many newer games from a franchise then devs prob wouldnt waste there time and money removing it from old games, and yet so many said im speaking s**t, well this right here proves what i said
The Warner Bros publisher is alreay known as a greedy company.
If we dont support them(dont buy their products),then they will feel the emptiness of their bank account.
Your wasting your time, remember how everyone was up in arms about Shadow of War and it’s loot boxes well upon release those same people still purchased it and all the fuss made little difference to their sales.
Doesnt matter if you own X amount of games. Are you illegally downloading those Uplay, Origin and Denuvo games? If so you’re scum and part of the problem. DRM wouldnt exist if people didnt steal games.
Then thats fine. You have every right to choose not to purchase something.
Ok, thats better, maybe you want to change your original response…
ok fam but no actually you’re wrong.
You must be one of those people who believe that piracy make a huge impact in games sales right ?
Yeah, piracy actually does boost games sales according to a recent study. It seems the guy is really naive.
oh its such a huge impact that uncracked creed origins missed the sale goals.
It did? O.o
But if Denuvo servers glitch out (or turn off) then I cannot play any of my games. Doesn’t matter how many X hours of game time I couldn’t play. They are stealing my time and money, and according too you, theft is theft, so by extension they are also scum and part of the problem.
I didnt read that part when He “claimed” to play pirated games…
Maybe you are better reading “between lines”.
I also dont install or play games with ubi or denuvo, does that mean I pirated those games too?
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA
Do me a favor moron, go to youtube type “history of drm”
Get owned.
Drm existed long before piracy.
No he is not par of the problem, lootboxes ea and all those shady business practises are. Indie devs as skipping all of that trash and doing just fine
Everyone blames the DRM, but if you didn’t pirate there would be no need for it.
Oh F…. off.
I’m wrong? Makes sense imo. If no one stole games like a pathetic thief we wouldnt need DRM right?
freaking console games in the 80s had drm.
true 100% agree
In a perfect world many things would be different but so far the reality is that pirates are gonna be around and yet apparently real customers are paying for it instead. like how they lose their access temporarily or getting clunkier performances in certain cases too (Rime seems to be the only real example since devs removed the Denuvo).
Not all DRMs are problematic though. the likes of Denuvo however are…which was first funded by EA btw.
Thats a cop out.
Perhaps, if they priced games to fit kids pocket money, we would see less piracy.
A recent study shows that piracy actually helps boost sales, so…
https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/22/eu-suppressed-study-piracy-no-sales-impact/
yeah and if people werent making baughty things there wouldnt be a need for a army.
Yet some morons will still defend denuvo as they’re incapable of independent rational thought
The console fanboy that is the laughably pathetic teenager calling himself Kim Kardashian West is here embarrassing himself once more so you’re quite correct!
Godamit guys just block those trolls you wont have to read their vomit
John’s banned him on at least one previous occasion and yet he keeps returning under new user accounts. How pathetic!
Fu* for DRM and DENUVO.
A) Yes it has. The latest version of Denuvo was cracked literally the day it came out.
B) I know for a fact that Mad Max was working fine the past week because I talked to people who were playing it.
In your dreams
lol what do you just randomly ask people to make sure there copy of mad max works every day?
sure you can confirm it, you paid shill marketer.
and mad max was wokring fine since the day it was cracked.
You don’t own games on console, either. All software is a license.
That’s true but you can sell your used games on console which is a little more like owning what you bought than with PC games.
Games on GOG are the only games that I really feel like I own because they can’t be taken away from me by a service shutting down possibly but I get what you’re saying about only buying a license to play the game and not owning the code for the game.
You’re a thief
What is he actually stealing?
oh look. what happened is what i said that could happen on a few occasions and got trolled and harassed because of it. i wonder if those paid shills will somehow try to twist this into some kind of feature or something.
Oh but, I was told by an “expert programmer” on Steam, as well as the web dev for Freedom Planet, that Denuvo is good for the industry and that it doesn’t do anything bad.
Shock horror, they were dead wrong, as usual.
2 of them are 2 year old – remove it already.
Yeah, you filthy pirate
This is because Denuvo uses a server check system where there are triggers in the game’s obfuscated .EXE that continuously ping(at intervals of lIRC 3 days) the Denuvo server to ensure the game is validated.
If the access to the server is blocked or the Denuvo servers are down, then players have IIRC 3 days before the check fails and they lose access to their game.
This is why such heavy handed DRM’s are trash.
Those people who couldn’t play their game get no sympathy from me. Drop your pants and grab your toes for DRM and you can’t be shocked when you get mounted.
Papadopoulos hates denuvo, he wants to play for free, thats no good, people that hate denuvo are the ones that want to pirate the games, I feel sorry for them. Publisher have the right to protect their games. And thieves, sorry pirates should stop spreading lies about denuvo.
pirates ARE playing for free moron.
CD Project Red is DRM free, GOG is DRM free, and even Steam has hundreds of DRM free games (not requiring the client to run).
Piracy does not affect sales and DRM just causes issues for those who paid for them.
There’s a reason why it’s called Denuvo Anti Consumer or The Plague.
I didn’t pre-purchase anything again after Squenix and Bethesda did start to omit the info that the product has been Denuvo Anti Consumer infected and also deceived me that way.
And of course i don’t purchase anything that is known to contain The Plague.
BUT THEY SAID THIS WOULDNT HAPPEN!!!
This is why I don’t like server games that call back to check, Hate cloud based storage as well.
You are relying on services and when they pull the plug you have nothing.
Give me old school games on disc or DRM free like GOG where I can play until I die, As for cloud storage they can shove that as well, I’ll stick to my micro sd cards with my entire music collection on there, When there is no net I’ll still be listening while others will be stuffed!
Funny thing is Denuvo isn’t really preventing Piracy if anything it’s encouraging it in the form of people cracking it aka tampering with it.
Anti tamper? yeah right :/
Now with the latest version of Denuvo + a VMProtect layer proving to be effective again at slowing down crackers, while making performance tank for paying customers, I expect companies that did drop denuvo to go straight back to it and throw a VMProtect layer into the mix to make peformance tank further and to flog CPU’s with 4 physical cores or less with constant 99-100% usage throughout the games.
Expect Bethesda to start putting Denuvo back into their future games!