Well, time for some exciting news everyone. Lords of the Fallen was released three days ago and surprisingly enough, CI Games’ latest action RPG has not been cracked yet. That’s a real accomplishment, considering that most PC games are cracked just mere hours after their official release.
Lords of the Fallen uses a new DRM solution from Denuvo. According to its description, EXECryptor has innovative, powerful, anti-cracking, anti-debugging, anti-trace, and anti-reversing software in the business.this DRM has new code protection features to stop the latest cracking software and cracker issues. This DRM was also used in FIFA 15; a game that has yet to be cracked.
Lords of the Fallen is also plagued by various performance issues. Some users reported that this DRM may be the cause of the game’s crashes and poor performance. CI Games, on the other hand, offered a guide via which players can disable PhysX effects in order to improve stability.
The company is also working on a patch that will – hopefully – fix all of the game’s issues. The official Twitter account is currently filled with posts about the game’s stability issues. Therefore, our Performance Analysis will be slightly delayed. For the time being, we strongly suggest waiting until you jump in and purchase it.
Whether this new DRM is the cause of the game’s major issues is yet to be proved.
Still – and for what is worth – Lords of the Fallen has managed to beat crackers… at least for the time being.
Lords of the Fallen releases today in UK and in other regions. The game was released on October 28th in some other regions and North America.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Maybe it’s such a poor game they are not bothering to crack it?
LOL!!! could be!
poor game? thats an amazing game.
Of course most of COD/BF boys will not like it…its too difficulty for them.
They didnt like DarkSouls neither will LotF
Actually one of the main criticisms of the game is that it is way too easy.
Might be too easy for some, too hard for others.
Easier than DarkSouls doesnt say much! theres nothing outhere even near to DarkSouls difficulty.
But LotF would fit somewhere easier than DS and harder than anything released!
DS I loved but its easy sorry..
“theres nothing outhere even near to DarkSouls difficulty”
Every old SNK fighting game in single player mode > Dark Souls in difficulty 😛
indeed.early games too
Too easy? Im done actually, with darksouls genre games.
Im too stressed out until the bitter of LotF.
I want to play games that has great story but yet harsh combats gameplay just like Witcher 2, Metro, STALKER, HalfLife, LastOfUs..
My Iast pay check was $9500 working l2 h0urs a week 0nline, My neighb0ur’s sister has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 2o hours a week. l can’t beIieve how easy it was 0nce l tried it 0ut……….
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Witcher 2 was a game? Since when.
I’m not sure where the hell people get how massive amounts of talking, combined with a QTE’s (Quick Time Event) constitutes as a game.
The Witcher 2 filled with QTE? did you even play it?
First of all learn to read. Did I say the Witcher 2 was FILLED with anything never mind QTE’s no I didn’t so again learn to read before replying.
And yes we all get it, you’re all insulted and butt hurt because someone spoke out about a game you are both in love with.
But trying to lie about how a game is with dumb comments that try and brush aside the facts is beyond dumb. There are enough trolls on forums, we don’t need more on forums like this.
Since you’re trying to apply the word PLAY to a game that really doesn’t have much actual playing in it, then it’s a safe bet to assume that you probably both think the NEW Tomb Raider is also a game doesn’t have many any QTE’s in it either.
Wtf? lmao! ok go back to ur great quests, no story and repetitive gameplay like BF/COD…
I like darksouls to but Dude its bloody easy…
No difficulity options?
Did you really just compare those games in difficulty with Dark Souls lmao.
“Too easy” compared to WHAT? Dark Souls? Most people just learned to live with DS difficulty – they don’t cherish it.
Off ya go, troll.
really? I mean yeah its not like dark souls but the problem they have with the game is that its easy? Dark souls has awful graphics, subpar animations, messy story and a crap upgrade system. But hey 95s everywhere.
Dark Souls does not have a messy story. You’re just used to the story being handfed to you with a straight to the point story. Dark Souls is known for having to work for the story and it makes you fill in the holes so it’s a lot of conspiracy. One of the things that makes Dark Souls what it is.
The creator has admited that he basicly made the whole thing up and his inspiration was western rpgs which he played without understanding english.
Most of the dialogues are laughable anyway, sure there is a dedicated community that examines the lore, but you cant look at me and tell me that dark souls story is actually told well in the game.
Well Dark Souls on PC where a terrible mess, both of em.
Dark souls 2 was one of the best optimized PC games i’ve played in years
not if you attempted to play it with KB+mouse.
playing a game in a way it wasn’t intended to be played and then moaning about it. classic.
i didnt know ancient graphics make a game “optimized” instead of simply “not demadning”
Dark souls 2 does not have poor graphics.. Majula is one of the most gorgeous places i have ever seen in gaming. I actually think dark souls 2 is one of the most visually appealing games i’ve played in the last decade.. Did it have 8k resolution textures? Perhaps not, But at least it ran stable and smooth from start to finish.
I would rather have a well made stable game like dark souls 2 than games like crysis3 or shadow of mordor with 8k textures on every surface and uneven framerates the whole way through.
Out of all the terrible PC ports the gaming community receives on a daily basis. I think its asinine of you to say dark souls 2 is one of them.
In fact i would use dark souls 2 as one of the example as one of the few EXCELLENT pc ports,
And do you really think that all optimization requires is making a games graphics look poor? Darksouls2 runs better than minecraft thats for sure
And what kind of person plays dark souls using a kb/mouse.. even on pc thats inexcusable.
Gedosato made darkSouls 1 perfect to be -played. after 80hrs playing it with only KB/M I can say that easily!
DS didn’t even explain how to open it’s menu. It was a guesswork issue that people seem to think was all that was needed when in reality tons of people couldn’t find any of the swords and some of the items they were supposedly picking up.
People that argue this have no clue about what instructions are and don’t get that there needs to be actual text explaining how to do something in order for instructions to exist, and without instructions anyone trying to say that DS was EXPLAINED is a moron same with anyone trying to use the excuse that IT IS OBVIOUS and therefore doesn’t require instructions is a plain outright retard.
I play both BF and DS and enjoy both. I must be special then.
Well said sir. u r really speacil. god bless u!
see thats the damn thing.
The metacritic ratings are subpar but dark souls 1 and 2 have high ratings.
Dark souls 2 was not exactly loved becasue it was apparently not as good as the first because it wasnt directed by the same guy, who is now working on bloodborne.
Why exactly is this game subpar compared to dark souls?
Thats what i want to know.
I can say what it was for me: I didnt play demonssouls, since Im a PC player. so DS1 was my first souls game. I was “lucky” to play it unspoiled, so much of the fun was actually learning the strange ways items, the controls, and the world in general works. Dark Souls 2 couldnt (by that I mean it was impossible for the game) recreate that feeling. also the difficulty wasnt as high, since DS1 veterans pretty much knew what to do. But dont get me wrong…DS2 is still one of the best games released that year
so ds2 is easier?
Sadly I wish some games instead of having been cracked were never made.
to bloody true 🙁
same but most of those games are AAA games that have gone on for way too long.
It may be “too easy” for HC Dark Souls players. But it’s definitely not easy I’d say. I mean, it’s obvious players who are used to this style of gameplay will have easier time. But this game tries to appeal to those who didn’t enjoy DS so much.
I like the game. DS still is better, but I enjoyed combat system and most boss fights.
Maybe you have no idea about it and just asking randomly questions?
Nope. People bothered with s**t to crack it. Cannot imagine they won’t with a game that achieve good critics like this one.
Since Lords Of The Fallen is Steam only, you don’t need to crack the game, you only need to bypass Steam’s DRM.
Nope the thing wraps threw your cpu like Spyware, Checks the serial number online before you play every time. I personally will not buy a game I HAVE to be online for. I might buy it if its cracked but not like it is.
I don’t even have Steam installed on my computer because it’s needless spyware that Valve has brainwashed people into somehow thinking it’s actually good which they’ve blinded chumps with $$.
Games on Steam have absolutely no monetary Value because of all the problems that come attached to a game on Steam, which is put there by a corrupted corporation and the developers are fully aware of what Valve is doing.
Anyway, I straight out tell any and all game developers by phone, email, on forums..etc. that if they ONLY USE STEAM to require their game, then I’m going to pirate it. I also tell them that they need to start releasing games without the need for Steam as well. So I do not under any circumstances, support Valve and any game developer that only uses Steam as if there is nothing else in existence. Game developers know better and yet pull this crap anyway, then complain.
I support UBISOFT and EA and do you know why, because they own and make all their games and they own the service for their games to be played through. Valve does not own 99.9% of the games they illegally control. And that is the major difference.
I believe anything that has proof to back it up. So if you have any proof that Valve is corrupt, then I’ll believe you.
Since you’re too lazy to use a search engine to find out public and full detailed information that show facts, then you’re a troll.
Oh I already did that, only reason I’m asking you is because I found nothing that made sense. Now, I’d love to know how Valve “illegally controls” games and how these games have no absolutely monetary value.
Let me ask you this, have you ever submitted a game to Steam?
I know developers that have and they love it. Thanks to Steam, their games have sold thousands and have earned them more than they expected.
As I said before, give me proof and I’ll believe you.
It all makes sense and so you not understanding anything means you either didn’t search properly or you’ve been brain washed by Valve, or you’re a company shill doing a very failed attempt at damage control.
Search results pull up hundreds of thousands of these types of complaints.
Valve closing people’s accounts for disagreements with moderators on the forum, A disagreement doesn’t equal hundreds of thousands of dollars in theft.
In the USA it’s illegal for Valve to IP block a consumer from buying games Valve doesn’t own. Yet they do it.
Valve False advertises a lot of things AKA free weekends)
Valve has people omit and remove any topics/replies that say anything bad about a game right before the push of a sale.
And the list goes on and on.
Don’t bother saying this stuff doesn’t happen because I’ve had it happen to me.
So for you to say there is no proof and don’t understand that
Search results means exactly what I said above:
you either didn’t search properly or you’ve been brain washed by Valve, or you’re a company shill doing a very failed attempt at damage control.
Have you read the terms and conditions and the rules and guidelines? They’re allowed to do that.
Regarding free weekends, please tell me how it’s falsely advertised? Games are free for the duration of the weekend. Seems simple to me.
It wouldn’t make sense to ban IPs as banning via IP is not standard practice now a days, considering that most of the computers from ISPs use Dynamically Allocated addressing.
According to the search engine that you keep telling me to use, Valve bans the Steam UID.
Now, you still haven’t answered my questions: How do games on Steam have absolutely no monetary value and how does Valve control games illegally?
You’re so brainwashed by Valve that they actually have you believing Valve doesn’t have to follow federal laws because of an agreement.
I will say this again:
IN THE USA, IT IS ILLEGAL FOR FOR VALVE TO BE DOING ANYTHING I MENTIONED ABOVE BECAUSE THE FEDERAL LAWS MAKE IT ILLEGAL.
There is no subscriber agreement when it comes to federal laws.
How the f’ do you false advertise a free weekend. That’s what the f’ it is A FREE WEEKEND. Valve never says you get to keep the game forever.
Oh do I really need to point out that just because someone complains that something has happened to them, it doesn’t mean that it did. Its just their word. You should know better. Especially when the information is online.
Also Valve can certainly IP block someone if they choose to do so. Steam is a service that belongs to Valve and upon agreeing to the TOS, you agree to the rules that allows Valve to block you.
The analogy works like this. Say you go into Wal-Mart and lets say for the sake of argument you attempt to steal from them (or in Steam’s case violate the TOS). That store can BAN you from returning to that store (it would be near impossible to ban you from all Wal-Marts), effectively preventing you from purchasing from them. So no its not illegal for Valve to do this.
TL;DR “durka durka Steam is DRM, but Origin & UPlay are not, because I decided.”
LMFAO. Brain surgery on-parade, ladies and gentlemen.
what have you installed though? everything has spyware.
Hard to Argue with you When we have this going on.
Gaming Company Fined $1 Million After Using Players To Mine Bitcoin
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You lost all credibility when you said you support Ubisoft.
Hypocrite.
“No Steam is not the DRM”
Well you just pointed out yourself that the Steam dll has the DRM in it, which we knew.
That’s not even close to what I said. learn to comprehend what you read.
Quoted from you in the other article and now you admit here that “Steam’s DRM which is in the steam_api64.dll.”
You didn’t quote me, because that’s not what I said in the context it was used in, you butchered what I said to make the context mean what you wanted instead of what it actually applies to.
when can we expect the performance analysis for this game? i heard its unoptimized.
gamegpu.ru , don’t trust this trash website’s(jk) already dead 2gb vram gpu, get true numbers here.
The game sucks up everything you have. Clearly its due to the DRM, wow the new low in PC Gaming has been found! #nextgenDRM
We’ll give CI Games a little more time to address the game’s issues via patches. As said, game is filled with performance and stability issues at the moment.
I can tell you point blank that a good chunk of the performance issues are because of Steam just like they always are in all games that use Steam.
I’m just going to say it. STFU
Games are always unoptimized due to the idiots who play them play them at settings they’re computers clearly cannot handle and then try to argue with you they have the hardware to play it like that, which shows they’re too stupid to understand the way they think things work and the way they want things to work are not even close to the same thing, and yet continue thinking they know WTF they’re talking about.
Games are always unoptimized due to the idiots who play them play them
at settings their computers clearly cannot handle and then try to
argue with you they have the hardware to play it like that, which shows
they’re too stupid to understand the way they think things work and the
way they want things to work are not even close to the same thing, and
yet continue thinking they know WTF they’re talking about.
Oh please when a game runs fine in a specific area and then the game runs like crap, the game is clearly unoptimized. When games like blackflag and watcdogs do not utilize multiple cores from high end pcs, they are clearly unoptimized.
We wont find out until there is a cracked version out that bypasses the DRM, if it ever does get cracked.
Is Fifa 15 cracked yet? I heard that was still not cracked a month after its release. Either way Im glad people arent able to pirate their games but at the same time I fukn hate what DRM does to legit buyers so I really hope it is not the DRM causing performance issues.
there is a fully unlocked version of Fifa 15 Ultimate Team Edition thats been around for over a month.
fully Unlocked yes, but it’s not cracked. I checked on torrentday, it was released 1 month 1 week 4 days ago, and had an update released 2 weeks ago. From the comment section it seems there is no crack for it yet.
Great news, IF the performance issues isn’t caused by the DRM. I pirate a lot, but never games. But movies and TV shows I do as I please with, as they aren’t delivered in a good way for me in Norway. When i can watch what I want, when I want, I’ll pay. When I have to schedule my day around them, I’m not going to toss any cash towards them.
It’s fully unlocked and it’s been cracked you meat stick
No, you meat stick.
Go find some evidence of it, or maybe you’re just into miss information?
Ahh ok, I was under the impression it hadnt been cracked after someone on GS made a topic about it. I dont keep up with the pirate scene much any more and I havent for a good few years now as most of the stuff released nowadays isnt even worth pirating.
LOL and you believe what’s posted on GS…,WOW Do you also get involved in gamefaqs too?
I have no reason to believe nor disbelieve it. Whats with the attitude though?
…Anyway, I did a bit of research on this. It turns out that the GS thread and what people are saying in that thread is in fact true. Fifa 15 is still not cracked. Every crack and “unlocked” version released so far is apparently fake. Feel free to download one or two of them to prove me wrong though.
What’s with people posting complete bullshit and then when someone like me calls them out on it, I got someone like you saying “What’s With The Attitude”
You cannot really be this much of a troll to pick fights with people after causing problems with them, and then trying to play victim.
Pick fights? Cause problems? -What the hell are you talking about now?
Seriously, you dont half talk some nonsense.
Exactly what you’re doing now, you asked me something knowing you weren’t going to like the answer, and so you’re posting idiotic replies instead of stepping back and accepting what you’re doing.
If you don’t like the answers I’m giving you, then how about you stop asking me questions and or asking me to explain things to you that you’re doing.
You really do need your head checking…
See, you’re picking fights after asking me questions you know you’re not going to like the answers too. So you ask the questions just so you can complain about the answers. You’ve done that for the past three posts. As I said, if you don’t like my answers, then quit asking me questions. Otherwise you’re a troll.
i ve been reading his post for awhile now and i came to the conclusion that…hes clearly insane.
“Lords of the Fallen uses a new DRM solution called EXECryptor.”
Well, the last update was back in 2006 so I wouldn’t really call it new. 😉
This is what you just posted:
“Lords of the Fallen uses a new TERMS OF SERVICE called EXECryptor”
Now let me show you what you just posted with the correct wording:
“Lords of the Fallen uses a new Security feature called EXECryptor”
Either you’re trolling me, in which case the joke’s on me (I guess), or you got a bit confused there, friend. Whichever the way, you are not making any sense whatsoever.
If you need any further clarification, I’ll provide it in a reply to your next post and that will be the end of this meaningless discussion.
will you do a performance analyses john for this ?
also more than a month after fifa15, and it’s still uncrackable. way better DRM than those always online craps. looks like it wont have any impact on game and it’s performance or ways to run it.
Remember Starforce? That used to be a royal pain in the a*s to circumvent in the early days. And legit users had a hard time running Starforce-protected games properly (some extreme documented side effects used to include botched Windows installs and physically damaged CD drives)
yes this is very much a history repeats moment.. That things got be killing CPU life.
WTF is “CPU Life”
Do you even know what you’re talking about?
If you don’t understand what CPU LIFE IS then you’re a dimwit.
Anyone who truly understands how computers work knows that when you overclock the CPU, it shortens the lifespan of the CPU no matter how good the cooling is. So instead of let say 11 years, you now only get 7 because it burns it out faster.
good but hope it’s not the cause of poor performances.
Fifa 15 seems to be uncrackable for now as well. Dragon Age 3 might have the same protection as Fifa 15. it can lead to better sales.
Not Agree… not being cracked doesn’t lead to better sales, 90% of who plays pirated games doesn’t buy a single game in there lifetime and think about that… they play it cause they haven’t extra money to pay for games specially in the 1st year… in some country 60$ is too much. and also there is no market for games. in this country’s people knows about games only because of INTERNET. that’s what i think.
Well, they can always wait for steam sales. I do that for some games and I don’t really mind waiting, seeing that there are so many games to play now a days.
Forgot to mention that with steam, in some countries, the 60 dollar price is actually cheaper, so it does match against a countries economy.
well based on what you are saying it has 10% effect. better than 0 don’t you think? as for those 90% i doubt most big companies even count people that live in poor countries i mean most of gamers there don’t even know what a “pirate” means and they are not at fault.
Whilst talking about blame let me put 1/4 of the blame where it belongs which is on the game developers who decide that there is nothing else but Steam in existence.
First people need to start getting the concept that Valve does a lot of illegal tings to consumers which is then attempted to be covered up by the company shills sent out to poison forums with false statements about the Steam subscriber agreement.
So lets cut the BS right now
In the USA it is illegal for ANY company FOR ANY REASON (See that FOR ANY REASON) to interfere with a consumers right to purchase/register/..etc ANY PRODUCT THAT COMPANY DOES NOT OWN..Selling a product does not mean you own it.
So when a game developers decide to only use Steam as a way to register their game, and let say Valve IP blocks someone, Valve has committed a Felony under the USA federal laws and when it comes to this subscriber agreement doesn’t apply simply because no business is allowed to do that to someone in the USA..It’s an open and shut case.
In closing, if companies want to keep on using Steam as the only way to register their games, knowing Valve is like this, then it’s their own fault if the games get pirated in that regard.
i am not sure i fully understood you and i am fine with developers not relying on steam but steam’s good points out weights it’s bad points in my opinion so…
LOL you seriously think the good outweighs the bad….LOL WOW
You have been so brainwashed by Valve that you have absolutely no clue about how just exactly how bad Steam really is is since you’re saying Steams good outweighs the bad.
Go watch my youtube channel MPC4utube and watch my videos on Steam, if after you do and still think the good outweighs the bad then you’re a lost cause
*suggesting i am brainwashed by valve
*Offers brainwashing
stay classy.
LOL FIFA 15 has been crack for over 3 months now
based on other comments i highly doubt that.
1) What a clickbait article about nothing and full of false info 😉 (FIFA15 uses same protection and is uncracked for month now and there was no article about it)
2) ExeCryptor is supposedly dead for years and supports only 32bit exes which is weird for x64 game
3) Actual protection of LotF and FIFA15 is called Denuvo (http://www.denuvo.com/) and its made by the people behind Securom
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John are you the primary source for everything on DSOG?
I am asking because I visit the site every single day and prefer it over all the others when it comes to getting gaming news, sure I visit them but you beat all of them to the punch.
And thanks for all the work you put in.
Same here, I love this site and want to become a regular if these guys will have me 🙂
one of the best site very clear and very simple
It’s me, John and Thomas. All three of us scavenge the Net for news but these two fellas are mainly in the background (except when Thomas decides to post something)
Well keep it up man.
You guys always score the news before anyone else and I am surprised you aren’t like the number one site. You deserve it.
Yep thx for Hard Work Bro 😀 Kudos 4Ux4
nope.
Only the names the same
http://www.strongbit.com/execryptor.asp
Steam FTW!
I agree but that has nothing to do with it.
Uncracked = Steam only!
you’re kidding right? Steam has long ago been cracked
No it has not. You’re talking about Green Luma which is a created version of Steam. But Steam itself has not been cracked because there is nothing to crack on Steam. Steam is nothing more than a service for distributing games is all. To crack it means you would have to hack onto each and every store webpage on the Steam store for each individual game.
if thats what makes you feel safe 😀
Steam has been cracked for years, as a DRM it fails almost as bad as UPlay and Origin.
Steam is a service and thus cannot be cracked..WTF exactly has been cracked on a service..it’s like saying you cracked an empty coffin in a morgue.
Also you cannot put UPLAY and Origin into the same category as Steam..they aren’t even close…EA and UBISOFT make and own EVERY single game that is used in their service and they also own the service itself so they own 100% of everything of theirs.
Valve on the other hand doesn’t own 99.9% of the things on Steam. And yet people actually think think Steam is better than UPLAY or ORIGIN are you frigging kidding me..Exactly how dumb are people to seriously say a company that doesn’t own 99.9% of the things they sell and has no Customer service team is actually better than a company who owns everything they sell and does have a customer support Team.
I can list everyone on the support teams for both UPLAY and ORIGIN but there isn’t one name listing anywhere for Valve Customer support.
The federal laws in the USA clearly explain that companies do not have the legal authorization to stop people from playing games they do not own, and yet Valve does it anyway and people try saying that the Steam subscriber agreement is GOD and Valve doesn’t have to follow federal consumer laws.
And what you said above about If something was bad Valve wouldn’t be doing that is 100% false…Valve does a lot of things that are outright felonies, but since there is no way to take any real and direct action because it’s on the internet, that’s hwy Valve pulls this.
So knock off the excuses.
He means the games can be run without having Steam running in the background. Steam is the DRM because you can’t play any Steam game without Steam being enabled, even offline mode requires Steam to run.
No Steam is not the DRM. Steam is the service that’s needed to run the games. The DRM is the terms of service you click I agree to that outline HOW You ARE AGREEING TO USE STEAM and it’s service.
Without an agreement of sorts, then people can do whatever they want and there is nothing binding anything.
“Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies attempt to control what you can and can’t do with the media and hardware you’ve purchased”
This is what Steam, Origin and Uplay do. GOG don’t control what you do with the games sold on their site, hence “DRM free”
No that is not what those do.
UPLAY, ORIGIN & Steam ARE nothing more than SERVICES, that are used to play games through and do nothing else.
D RIGHTS M Is management rights for use of digital products. The rights come from the agreement itself the consumer signs (Clicks I agree) and not the product and or service itself.
That’s how it works.
It’s been the case for a long time that Stream is DRM, it’s just DRM done right and hardly any one complains any more. Steam does restrict you to what you do with your games, hence DRM.
You NEED Steam to run your games, that’s the restriction.
Steam is a service NOT DRM Steam HAS DRM but Steam itself is NOT DRM because it cannot be.
The restriction you’re talking about comes from the agreement, NOT THE FRIGGING SERVICE. What do you think causes Steam to be needed in the first place?
GOG is a service, all it has is a download manager to download your games
Saying GOG itself is a service is exactly like saying UBISOFT is a service, GOG is a website, the GOG DOWNLOADER is the actual service used to download the games,
UPLAY, ORIGN, and Steam are all services used to download the games.
You should really quit posting incorrect information.
Moron, that’s all I can say.
Yes you are. If you’re going to get involved in conversations then learn what you’re talking abut which means understanding how things work.
This is the first thing I’ve read on here from you that I agree with so far.
How could I know? I am a steam fanboy. No Steam no deal!
what? Lords.Of.The.Fallen.FIX Cracked-3DM ??? so much for that….
It’s fake. The game has not been cracked.
Sorry , i didn’t check properly. So new DRM huh? Probably will get cracked soon anyway, everything does eventually.
Like AC2 did, 6 months later.
Only that’s a lie because I played AC2 1-2 weeks after it was PC released..
A perfect replacement crack existed a few months after, yes, but alternative methods using savegames, offline mode and other quirks compensated. Hell, even then those solutions were STILL alot better than the legit version which forced always-online mode.
hawx 2 took longest i think, like more than one year or so… but point was , everything gets cracked.. its just a matter of time.
DRM is the terms of service you click I agree to. So I’m not sure why you’re saying the terms of Service will probably get cracked which is exactly what you’re saying when you say Cracked the DRM.
its just a term that is used widely by many, its the .exe that is ‘cracked’ actually
But it’s an incorrect use of the word and term and it’s why people on the net have no clue about what is and is not correct anymore.
And the exe is not CRACKED it’s decrypted, hex edited to bypass the security check, then compiled again.
It’s not cracked.
No game is ever cracked. What’s happening is that the security in the game is being bypassed.
I don’t even know what’s going around on the piracy scene anymore. It’s been 3 years since I only play legit PC games. It feels good not worring about cracks, updates, etc.
Cracks actually make games work better and don’t have the problems of DRM, game client lock-in. A crack can make a non working legal version of the game work properly
I agree 100%!
One of the recent experiences I had was Wolfenstein:TNO…ran flawless on the cracked version…
My Iast pay check was $9500 working l2 h0urs a week 0nline, My neighb0ur’s sister has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 2o hours a week. l can’t beIieve how easy it was 0nce l tried it 0ut
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…. then i must crack my game just to test that theory.
I can’t think of one example where the cracked version has been better than the legit version in the last 5 years of me gaming on PC, in fact the cracked versions are usually riddled with bugs, performance issues, save file corruptions, crashing and even intentional bugs that are designed to make the gameplay worse.
Not in the last 5 years has any pirate version been better than the legit version, even more so that games usually end up getting day one or week one patched sometimes between 1.5gb and 3gb large, f’ messing with pirate versions looking for legit patches and worrying if I can get through the game without something stopping my progress.
Games aren’t that expensive.
Correct. I bought the Chronicles of Riddick on GOG and it is one of maybe three games I could never get to run no matter how much I researched. So, I downloaded the crack copy as I already paid for a legal copy, and voila! The cracked version runs flawlessly. Crazy part, GOG is supposed to be DRM-free, which CoR was, but removing the original DRM from the game cause issues on certain PCs.
DRM is the actual terms of service you click I agree that outlines how you’re agreeing to use a product. Since GOG has an agreement you have to click I agree in order to install something from there, then it’s not DRM free.
The correct statement is there is no security needed to run/play the game
Wrong. Steam is the DRM, that’s why devs don’t need to put any in, it’s not just a client, it’s a client that must be run all the time to play your games and that’s control and restriction. Steam has pretty passive DRM, it’s DRM done right not draconian.
Since you’re not getting it, so I’ll explain it like this:
DRM is not security they’re 2 different things.
The only reason games require Steam to is because the game developer programs the launch to FORCE the need for Steam to be used which comes from the subscriber agreement.
So for this conversation, lets remove subscriber agreement and all terms of service from Steam, while leaving Steam to still do everything it does now except developers no longer force Steam because in this situation there is no agreement to enforce that.
Not having a subscriber agreement doesn’t change the service or how it works, it only changes how the user is allowed to use that service, as well as what the user does with it. So now removing all binding agreements, the the user is now free to use/not use the service any way they choose, instead of BEING forced to use the service the way the user is being told to from the agreement.
As you can clearly see, the DRM is the agreement, not the service. So saying Steam is the DRM is false.
You do know DRM is software and system level right?
yeah the joke back then was that riddick has a drm that if you even manage to play it, you will be lucky.
I have a number of games, like Singularity and Time Shift, that I bought but have to use cracked exes on them later on. No surprise that all of them are CD based or old games before I committed myself to online distributions. Of course it’s really disheartening to see my anti virus software said they are malwares.
Except uplay f’ up, GFWL f’ or other DRM problems. I can’t tell you how many game i have bought i had to crack to play.
Same here mate, I hate to be enjoying a game worrying if there is a game breaking bug around the corner, or if it’s going to crash at a certain part and I cannot continue. Or it wipes 10 hours worth of save data. Or if there is intentional bugs hidden in the game to make it a worse experience.
Why buy decent PC hardware and act like a peasant playing inferior pirate versions while also harming PC gaming in the process?.
I buy all my games and if I don’t think day one prices are worth it then I wait a few weeks until the game is reduced on amazon or buy cheaply from CD-keys. I also love Steam Achievements, friends lists, automatic patch installs, Steam Trading Cards, online multiplayer and generally a better all round experience not worrying if my game is riddled with bugs that will stop me from completing it.
Yep, it does feel good. But today there a lesser demo version and the price stays the same. Cracked versions are good to evaluate. If one don’t like a game after an hour or two you uninstall it. If one like it he’ll buy it (mostly on steam) for convenient updates, cloud saving, achievements and to support the devs. (for myself, I bought FTL three times). And even at those scene boards you’ll find a lot of guys thinking the same way. So cracked versions are “modern” demo versions.
So you’d rather roll over and accept this from Valve instead:
An extremely intrusive adaware and maleware from a company that scans your computer whenever they feel like it and gives people the run around, falsely bans people, is corrupted to the core, Steals, committed and still commits countless felonies in the USA against consumers. Thinks they’re exempt from federal laws and the list goes on and on.
Sorry but the overall price that you have to pay for games that are attached to Steam and all the problems that come with it, are not worth the $60 or whatever price tag the game has on it.
Sorry all Steam fanboys can say whatever they want because they’ve been brainwashed by Valve, but the reality of it is, game developers have no business ONLY using Steam when they are fully aware of What Valve does and the illegal activities that go on with Steam.
Prove it.
Go troll elsewhere.
Game ran fine for about an hour on my 780m and then crashes all out of nowhere…shame, really, was enjoying it so far.
It ran fine in my early try of it(up to the First Warden) and I thought I was lucky to have a stable one. After the patch however it crashed several times upon boot and then a couple of times while loading the save game. The crashes brought down my Steam client too.
I managed to get to run and continue gaming when I play it in Steam Offline mode. Still annoyed by my warrior’s painfully slow dodges(I defeated the First Warden by stripping my character’s heavy armor to get a significant agility boost).
Ah thanks, I’ll try that !
Same thing happened to me, I beat the first warden, but then created a new character because apparently, defeating him without getting hit once, gives the sword he drops a special ability. Then while fighting him on my new account, 3 crashes in a row.
Hopefully the offline thing helps for me aswell.
That’s because Steam is hogging most of the resources that the game should be using.
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory went uncracked for a year and a half.
I bought the game and I think it’s okay. Feels like a more linear and easy Dark Souls. I haven’t had a single crash, and performance issues went away when I disabled Nvidia Turbulence and put shadows on medium.
UMMM splinter cell chaos theory was cracked 1 week after it’s release…not sure where you got a year and a half.
Nope it took a year, i clearly remember.
So you’re seriously trying to tell me that I wasn’t playing a cracked game a week after it’s release?
Then explain to me how I as playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory?
Maybe where you were looking wasn’t too good if i took the places you were looking at a year.
You should definitely be looking at different things because what you’re looking at is so far behind the times it’s pathetic.
Let me guess you pirate games because you disagree with DRM…
It’s a shame that the game is fun but I can’t play it for more because it crashes so f’ing much at random.
The game will be fixed really soon mate and the benefit of buying the legit version is that you won’t have to search the internet looking for patches. I dislike people who pirate or talk about pirating games online as I love PC gaming and if we all pirated then we wouldn’t have a PC gaming industry.
Around 2005 PC gaming was on it’s a*s and all the big gaming websites were declaring PC gaming dead, now PC gaming is becoming a dominant force getting the most developer support and even support from developers that never used to look at PC gaming and yet here we have fools on here talking about piracy like they are getting a better paying experience than the paying customers when it’s bull**it.
Not only that but do these guys not forget when PC gaming was pretty much dead?. It wasn’t that long ago and yet here they are.
I buy all my games , http://steamcommunity.com/id/jaguarcd32x/games?tab=all
All these games benefit from automatic game patch installs , achievements, friends lists, free online multiplayer, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop and it’s not like the old days when you could only play your games if you were signed in online or when you could only install your game on three different PC’s and a CPU upgrade counted as your game being installed on a new PC.
So no excuse for any of these guys for pirating.
It’s a shame you are having crashing issues, I want to play this game as well but it will be sorted soon mate
Why is it a shame that the game is fun? I don’t think you realize that you just said you’d rather have the game not be fun.
You clearly are misreading it, it’s a shame that such a fun game is so buggy that it is unplayable for many people, myself included, that is all I’m trying to say.
I didn’t misread anything, I read exactly what you posted.
What you just posted is not what you posted above it doesn’t matter what you MEANT to post, it matters what got posted.
And this is why I don’t post that much on this site. You are right, you win, there, do you feel superior now?
WTF is with you losers on the net posting incorrect sentences, then when someone corrects it, you people act like you spoke correctly. Sentences mean exactly what you post them as, there is no changing the context or meaning after the fact.
If you post the word APPLE then you MEAN APPLE, but yet people act like they posted the word Pear and then cop an attitude like you did when someone corrects you.
Cheers, you win the internet. Move on, have a life.
This isn’t win or lose,if you go uncorrected how are you going to know what you’re saying is incorrect, so in that regard good luck getting a job when doing that. I can picture it now,
You’re told to deliver an apple and when someone asks you if you delivered it, you say “Yes I delivered the pear”
Learn to phrase your sentences correctly.
lol not everyone is a native English speaker, and not everything revolves around the English language. Grow up, it’s funny as hell you calling me a loser when you’re the one throwing a tantrum over a f’ing comment.
Are you aware that the whole world doesn’t speak English natively?
Is this game playable with KB + mouse? Unlike Dark Souls.
I had two versions of Witcher 2 back then . One was DRM free GOG version while other had DRM . The GOG version of the game ran helluva lot better , while the other one had “optimization issues” . CD Projekt patched the game within a week and it fixed its performance issue.
Now the frame rates were exactly the same as GOG version had day one. That patch , along with few minor improvements had removed the DRM from the game. Later in an interview with Eurogamer , CD Projekt admitted that DRM was slowing the game down.
If you don’t believe me , you can compare vanilla versions of Witcher 2 and see it for yourself . I think that will be the case here with Lords of the Fallen. This DRM may be effecting the stability of the game . Instead of focusing on these gimmicks , they should find new ways to reward their customers or make the game better, so people support it. For reference ; see Valve games.
Like ”always” the paying customer gets f’ed over.
WTF are you blaming the pirates for when ti’s the dumb a*s developers who use this DRM in the first place. They use companies like Valve who are notorious for illegal activities toward it’s consumers, and then they have the testicular fortitude to complain about piracy…Really!!
I can play Witcher at 4k locked at 60FPS at Steam…so DRM wont do any harm to me!
GOG still unreliable game client yet for me!
You can play the Witcher at 4k?
4k what exactly?
4K resolution
4K Resolution…LOL that’s impossible. You clearly have absolutely no idea how resolution works.
You somehow think because you’re able to display the game at that resolution that the game is in that resolution. That’s exactly like saying since you’re playing a VHS on an HDTV and you’re able to display it on the HDTV that somehow makes the movie HD. It doesn’t work like that. The movie has to be filmed in HD in order to for it to be in HD. Games are the same way.
The Witcher 2 wasn’t made in 4K resolution making impossible for it to be played in that resolution. Sure you may be able to displaying it on that type of screen, but it’s still not in 4K.
Most any “big” games released since like 2007 work in 4K. The Witcher 2 included
A game working in that resolution is not the same as the game itself being made IN THAT RESOLUTION
As it stands now, no game has been made in 4K resolution. Displaying it has nothing to do with if it was made like that.
I do hope you are trolling, Matthew. If not:
If a game runs in a resolution higher than, say, 1080p, the textures will often look a little washed out or the geometry will have a more noticeable lack of detail compared to the resolutions the game was designed for, there is, however, nothing stopping it from running at higher than the designed-for resolution.
While many games, especially console ports, often use an internal rendering resolution that is not the same as the resolution it will be displayed in, 4K gaming is already a reality and many games offer true 4K resolution support. I think this was your original point mixed with a bit of half-knowledge on your part.
If a game runs in 4K resolution, it runs in 4K resolution. Except when it doesn’t, but that’s the exception, not the rule.
SOMETHING THAT IS NOT MADE IN A SPECIFIC FORMAT, IS NOT EVER GOING TO BE IN THAT FORMAT..EVER.
That is the end of discussion.
So you’re just a troll, alright. ^^
Faith in humanity restored. A bit.
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about how games work. Modern 3D games aren’t made at a certain scale. It all simply depends on the performance threshold the gamemakers shoot for depending on the system.
When I build a scene in 3D – adding polygon objects and textures to a ‘scene’ (level) – the computer doesn’t see a difference between an object that is 300ft across and one that is .3mm across – you simply increase or decrease the precision. One can easily increase the precision of an object, but that increases RAM and processing, so it’s best to find a balance between precision and performance. The more precise the game the more taxing on the system. All interactions between objects in a scene are approximations.
A polygon ball bouncing on the street, for example, doesn’t ‘touch’ the street, it merely gets ‘close enough’ and bounces off (using maths) in a very imprecise way that is independent of the polygon geometry. A polygon ball may have a shader applied to make it appear round, but actually it’s a collection of flat surfaces. In a perfect simulation of that polygon ball, the edges where the polygons meet would make the ball bounce all crazy-like, so the simulation needs to be smoothed out and approximate in order to react realistically. This underlying precision in 3D games is why you have character feet that go through ground geometry (it’s a bit more complicated than that but you get the idea, I hope).
True, I can render a 4K image of low-resolution assets (I believe this was your point). Rasterized textures like normal maps do not scale, but shaders will. A shader-heavy game at 4k will look better than a game with a ton of mipmaps. This is why downsampling a 4k image to 1080p gives you better shader detail, which comes at a performance cost.
Outputting at 4k from a GPU isn’t that bad of a performance hit in and of itself, but the graphics card needs a specific hardware configuration (or separate part) to make it happen (screen buffer RAM/ engine?). This is why a tablet can run 4K resolutions and desktops can struggle.
Obviously this is a huge topic. It seems you’re mostly wrong. You’re right in a way, too, but you don’t seem to understand why you’re right.
You know nothing and especialy not how to make well formed arguements, “that is the end of the discussion”
I really hope you’re joking.
thats whats meant by playing in 4k resolution. displaying the game in 4k ( 3840 x 2160 or 4096 x 2160). shouldn’t be that hard the understand what he was saying
It’s perfectly possible, just like old games can be played at any resolution. The main issue is aspect ratio. You can play Tomb Raider 2 at 1920×1080 16:9 with the ratio fix.
No it’s not possible. Something can only be played in whatever you’re trying to run was made in. Something not made in 4K cannot be viewed in 4K it’s impossible.
Playing something on a screen at a resolution that’s built into the screen is not the same thing as having the item being displayed in that resolution.
Maybe you’re just too stupid to understand it?
Look, as much as I agree with you about DRM, you’re being stupid here.
Your VHS tape on an HDTV analogy doesn’t work.
The games being discussed are rendered in real time by the player’s computer, they can be rendered at pretty much any resolution. When you pick a high resolution in a game’s options, it’s not upscaling. The game is actually being rendered at a higher resolution. Things like textures and overlays won’t get any sharper, but the actual game will be higher resolution. Of course, since this makes the textures and overlays stand out it’s not always a preferable thing but it’s perfectly possible that this guy is running The Witcher 2 at 4K resolution.
Did you hear the news about Crysis 3 a little while ago? A gamer “hacked” the engine and forced to game to run at 8K. And it looked amazing. So what you’re saying about a game not being able to run in 4K if it’s not made in 4K isn’t true. (google if you don’t believe this)
I am currently rendering Alien Isolation at 4K and down scaling it to 1080p. That’s what console gamers seem to be calling bullshots. I play games that way lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUSYaa6C9s
Games can be rendered at and resolution. The only issues tend to be aspect ratio’s, ie 16:9 or 4:3. Games use graphics API’s that generalize the instructions on how to render things. This is passed to the graphics driver. You can change the render resolution on PC as nothing is hard coded. You can lower the resolution for higher frame rates.
Crysis 3 rendered in 8K and down sampled to 4K. Lossless download avalible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYnG2JO0m_s
“Playing something on a screen at a resolution that’s built into the screen is not the same thing as having the item being displayed in that resolution.”
You know, there is this great invention called a 4K monitor and also GPU’s that can handle such memory, maybe you should look into it. If you don’t get concepts then maybe you shouldn’t use such a sh**ty pre-built PC or consoles and complain why you can’t play games at 1080p and such.
I do understand ur logic. Still all those game released at PS3/X360 being played in a PC were made to be played at 240p.
4k Gaming will multiply four times all polygons of textures, being way better than in 1080p.
Well you wouldn’t have said that on launch of The Witcher 2, CDPR removed the DRM sometime after.
The Witcher 2 still has an agreement you have to click so the DRM still exists.
When you can show me a game that has nothing to click I agree to when obtaining, installing, playing, then and only then will you have a DRM FREE GAME. Until then as long as there is something the user has to click I agree to, then it’s DRM.
You’re confusing a licence with DRM. DRM is what enforces the licence. If they say you can’t send it to all your friends but they don’t have any kind of copy protection to stop you, it’s DRM-free.
But by this point I’m guessing/hoping you’re a troll. No one can be that stupid.
The licence says what you can and can’t do, DRM makes it so you can and can’t do what the licence says on a software level, I.e software monitoring of the game to enforce the licence.
What GOG game client?
That’s what I was wondering. I mean, they have one planned but it’s nowhere near released yet so I don’t see how he can have an opinion on it.
i got retail but i use the gog exe…you know why.
if drm is making the game run bad, they should ditch it soon.
Wouldn’t be the first time. We all remember SecuROM, right? Who owns Denuvo? Reinhard Blaukovitsch, former VP of..oh… SecuROM. Or former and former – Reinhard filed a patent in July 2014 which is owned by Sony DADC so I guess Denuvo is part-time business. Heck, even the former VP sales of North America owns 30% of Denuvo.
Weird game glitches? Yeah well, go figure.
I think i will wait for the performance patch, then i will buy it.
Wow! The new Ubisoft!
Meanwhile at Ubisoft: We’re not the worst anymore!
Meanwhile at EA: Wow no one remembers how we mutilated their favorite franchises!
ahahhahhah
Funny how ea doesnt release as many games latelly.
I remember the same thing with Assassin’s Creed II… and you know it’s Cracked and i think it’s a matter of time for Lords of the Fallen. Pirates now must be in Ecstasy, they like challenges…
Christ PhysX already consumes alot of horsepower when running on the GPU it’s designed to run. Im sure it will work just fine when set to CPU lol!
They implemented it for the money from Nvidia simple as that. We found about this years ago. They would not have bothered to waste their own money to implement the resource hog and problematic Gameworks consisting of various PhysX features.
borderland run like a crap with physX on
Borderland is like the easiest game to run with Physx enabled. You must have an extremely mediocre graphics card.
i have gtx 670 i7 3820 16 gb ram
when it go under 60 fps my gpu usage is 60 to 80% so i dont know why
when i kill Shugorrath that will drop fluids on the ground the framerate goes down if the a lot of them fps goo under 30fps
That’s because you’re a moron that has the settings on the game too high.
strange, it happens to me when ice turns to fluid (only on pre sequel), and it impact 4 or 5fps at max when that happens, other fluids are fine. max settings on a 660ti
Some guys having same problem as me and they have better gpu 780ti
One question U put phsyX one ultra ?
yes, physx is on max. but i have to say, i play at 1680×1050 most of the times
I found what causing this issue and it was Microsoft vc++ I installed all Microsoft vc++ and my frame rate rarely drop to 50 1080p
not really, at least for me, it’s always 60fps
That’s why AMD cards are garbage for gaming.
Steam is a bigger resource hog than PhysX.
That argument worked 10 years ago but now we have computers kitted out with Multi Gigabytes of memory, that ~40MB used by Steam is of little consequence.
no one should play a half assed game whether it be pirated or otherwise…
If you were expecting an AAA game from CI Games you were mistaken lol.
IN the USA, AAA stands for American Automobile Association. and they sell all sorts of insurance and crap. So I wouldn’t expect An insurance company to make games at all.. Although Bioware was started and currently owned by 4 Canadian Doctors so I guess it wouldn’t be that far off.
Pirated and non-pirated games are exactly the same. They have all the same exact files in them so there is no difference between them.
They are only different when it comes to online use.
It was clearly a lighthearted arbitrary comment. Why are you applying logic too it?
People said the same about AC2 i did take 16 days i give you that but crackers got it. This is just a “simple” decryption it will take some time not because its that hard simply decrypting takes time.
this DRM will never be cracked, it just have the loader to make the DRM think they are running legally.
How do you crack a terms of service? TOS is the DRM.
I think you’re trying to say, the security in this game will probably never be bypassed.
yeah… im noob . doesnt have much techno vocabulary 😀
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The problem is… Pirates that would buy this game because they can’t wait for a crack, won’t buy it until the game’s bugs and performance issues are solved. Until then, a crack might appear.
CI Games forgot that for a DRM to be efficient, it can’t have any impact on legit clients.
I was planning to buy the game, since I’m a Dark Souls fan, but decided to wait for the reviews (Wasteland 2 is keeping me busy). But I’ve decided to wait once the first looks and reviews came out. By the time the game is fixed, there will be a steam sale. Pirates will have a crack. In both cases, CI Games lose.
Well it’s there own fault for only using Steam. Game developers and Valve cause a 1/4 of the PC gaming piracy because of Valves controlling, illegal and immoral business practices. You’re obviously oblivious that in the USA, when it comes to purchase and use It is a felony to interfere with a consumer rights in that regard, both of what Valve loves to do because they think they can do whatever they want just because they sell a game..Selling a game doesn’t make it theirs to do whatever they please with and this is impossible to explain to Steam fanboys who think the subscriber agreement is God even though there are federal laws that explain otherwise and why subscriber agreement doesn’t hold up in certain situations.
If A game developer ONLY uses Steam as a way to register their game, and Valve has IP blocked someone, then the consumer has been prevented from paying for the game even if they wanted and now has to pirate the game in order to play it, because there is no other place the consumer can get the game and the federal laws in the USA make it illegal to prevent a consumer from purchasing/using/registering something by a company that doesn’t own the product that they’re pulling that with Yes in the USA it is a felony to mess with a consumers ability to purchase/activate/register/play/use a product they don’t own if that’s the only place to do anything with the product. The federal laws in the USA clearly explain that it doesn’t matter if you clicked I agree, if the company doesn’t own the product, then they cannot block you from it for any reason under any conditions.
So yeah, if the game developer is going to be stupid in this regard, then it’s their own fault and they have no business complaining..Sell the game both with and without Steam and it will cut down 1/4 of the pc gaming piracy..that’s a fact
I don’t see why a piracy protection could seriously compromise the game performance. Maybe some seconds when loading data, when everything is cached in ram and vram how could the performance be affected? unless the protection method is 100% crap.
That’s because you don’t understand how this stuff works so let me explain it and I will explain it in very basic terms so you can understand it:
DRM always impacts a games performance because a good portion of the resources that should be going to the game, are instead being used up by the DRM check. The game is also now being forced to run DRM code which is forcing the game it’s being used in to run in a way it was never programmed to run.
DRM free/cracked games run better because the resources that normally used to check the DRM, are instead now being applied to the game.
Anyone that tries to tell you that the resources used in checking DRM are very little, is either lying, has no idea what they’re talking about, or both
I hope you understand that now.
You’re insane.
So because I corrected you, and I’m calling people out with their false information and not letting people walk all over me. I’m insane? Interesting let me marinate for a minute..
(on min later)
No, insane would actually be rolling over for you whiny brats every single time one of you throws a fit. Seriously every single time someone voices an opinion someone disagrees with, the first thing anyone says is they have an attitude and starting problems with them.
Don’t listen to him as he is talking out of his arse, years ago around say 2005 when all the big gaming websites were pondering if that was the end of PC gaming because of all the piracy and PC developers running to consoles , the first generation of DRM was intrusive and did have some games running worse.
Then Valve came along with Steam and soon even Ubisoft with their always online DRM soon found other ways to ensure the paying customer didn’t get a worse experience than pirates and it has been like that ever since.
Get this, I have had Steam, Norton Anti Virus and Uplay all running at the same time and CPU usage is less than 1% and anyone can prove this to themselves by looking at a CPU resource monitor.
Modern DRM isn’t giving gamers worse performance than the leeches otherwise people like him boasting and trying ever so hard to take the moral high ground would be making youtube videos rubbing it in paying customers faces in a kind of fcuk you scenario because he doesn’t have cash to spare so resentment kicks in 🙂
Trust me , if this were true then there would be benchmarks. Hell even the most taxing games available usually run no different using CPU’s years apart and in performance. The reason why AMD’s 8 core CPU’s sometimes get beat by Intel’s modern dual cores is because no game really takes advantage of multi core CPU’s. Hell you could dedicate a whole thread to DRM and it wouldn’t make any difference for most games.
Most games use 30 to 60% of my 4 generations old I7 Sandybridge and I buy all my games…. Having Steam and Uplay run with Norton uses less than 1% of my CPU and anyone can put this to the test themselves.
See back around 2005 PC gaming was dead because of piracy so the money spent on DRM wasn’t there, neither were the games and the games that were there were shit ports. Sometimes developers would port their console game to PC around 7 months later because PC piracy was so bad it was hurting the potential over all sales by just porting to console.
Most PC gamers have accepted that if the enjoy PC they need to support PC and Steam has made PC a force which is good for all gamers.
LOL, take that pirates.
still butthurt about driveclub?
I am going direct you one a comment above from your brother sony dckrider demfax
“i wish i bought that version instead the ps4 version is horrible”
Yup demfaxt said that.
While DRM can contribute to poor performance I doubt it is here in a major way considering how terribly the console versions run. Fact is its a good looking game with high end visual features and maybe some optimization issues but at the end of the day high end games need high end hardware. PC games running well on low to mid range hardware wasn’t always going to be a guarantee. We are in the midst of a PC generational shift right now.
PS3 and 360 games are cracked one week before the releases. DosGaming wants people to believe that BS of “PC Piracy”? Make more serious articles, my first gaming system was PlayStation and every body had illegal copies, that remains.
What? Are you denying that the PC is the platform of excellence for pirated games, now? Just count the total number of illegal downloads on PC, X360 and PS3in any torrent site. Apart from few exceptions, like COD these days the top seeded/leached games are all for PC.
I just wanted to correct you on something which is there is no such thing as an illegally downloaded PC game. When it comes to PC games the money you pay goes towards the license right to use the game which is the CD key and registration..Not the game itself or the files.
obviously my dear sony gimp, where are the people in poor countries that have to import consoles at inflated prices are going to go?
actually GTAV was the most pirated game i have ever seen. and by the way, i myself download uplay and origin games i buy from torrents because i can’t access the download page of these clients and even if i do, they are so slow
There is no such thing as a crack console game. The console itself is modified to play non-official burned media.
actually dsogaming is focusing on pc and knows very well that games are pirated first on ps3/x360.
in all honesty the games not worth cracking when it crashes constantly and bluescreens pc’s
Games only have massive problems when DRM is involved. For example when Skyrim first came out, you could move the game out of the Steam directory and play it and when it was run through Steam Skyrim was CTD (Crashing To Desktop) between 4-5 times every hour, however once the game was moved out of the Steam directory and Steam was removed from the computer, Skyrim played flawlessly without any crashes at all, as soon as Steam was introduced back into that computer, SKyrim started CTD once again.
Tons of games have all sorts of problems when they’re on Steam and a few other DRM services. People don’t get exactly how much damage DRM does to a game.
lie. paying stupid things like COD affects everyone, affects gaming. not paying good things don’t , why? because if you don’t pay something good it’s because you don’t have the money, with DRM or without it, you wont be paying the game. this happens with most people that use cracked games. paying for the game if you can is better, you have it before, works better in some cases, especial content, support, is yours like forever, not messing around with cracks and patches or anything else…. is just better. This is why you can download and play the witcher 2 and pay later…..piracy is the biggest lie ever.
I’ve had just about enough of all you damage control morons from Valve and Steam reps taking over discussions and poisoning it with false information and garbage you clearly know nothing about. So I’m going to set the record straight for all you clowns that seem to think DRM is better than DRM Free and think Steam is so great.
FACT 1:
Fifa 15 has been cracked for over 3 months not a month. AND I SAID CRACKED NOT UNLOCKED.
FACT 2:
DRM is a major resource hog and forces games to run with programming it was not programmed to run with. This in turn forces the resources that should be going towards the game, to instead be diverted to the DRM online checking and now the game suffers in a lot of areas and causes crashes. Steam is a major resource hog, sure people open the process tab in task manager and see the Steam.exe running at only 12MB and say “I checked the process and it only shows 12MB being used, but those people are idiots because they seem to think that the Steam.exe is the only thing being run on the process tab…There are over 20 different additional things running in the resource tab that are all directly connected to Steam that keep running even after Steam has been closed so closing Steam won’t reveal what things it’s using. The point is people don’t know what’s being used by Steam whether Steam is running or not. Just being connected to the internet even with Steam closed, is still checking into the Steam services and servers in fact that process does not stop until you completely turn off your computer.
FACT 3:
Both the developer AND companies and Valve actually cause 1/4 of the PC gaming piracy. Valve is a corrupt and a very dishonest company that loves pulling illegal acts towards consumers. One such act is actually a felony, Valve has a vicious habit of blocking the consumers IP completely and rendering it impossible to play or register any game any game developer has made or will make in the future so the consumer cannot pay for the game even if they wanted to. So in this regard it’s the developers own fault for deciding to use a corrupted company that runs a service illegally half the time.
FACT 4 (VAC BANS) There are 2 problems with VAC BANS
Problem 1: Vac does False BANS now people love to argue invalid points so let me clear a few things up. People that argue this love using the following statement
“It doesn’t kick in right away, it takes a while for it to catch up on it’s back log”
What a bunch of crap. If someone is in a game cheating and VAC doesn’t kick in during that game, then it’s a piss poor system that clearly doesn’t work. Because if someone is in a game not cheating, and then all of a sudden VAC catches up and decides to kick in during that particular game, THEN YOU HAVE BEEN ISSUED A FALSE VAC BAN because it banned you from a game YOU WERE NOT CHEATING IN. People using the excuse of that it took until now need to shut the hell up..If you weren’t cheating i the game and then vac kicks you out of the game you were not cheating in…THEN YOU GOT A FALSE VAC BAN plain and simple. A legit VAC ban would take place in the game you’re currently cheating in. So if Vac cannot catch people at the time it happens then VAC failed to do it’s job.
Problem 2.
VAC mark an account with it so everyone can see, but yet if you post a list of known cheaters on a Steam forum for that game, the topic will get deleted and you’ll get a suspension because you’re not supposed to be doing that. So cheaters can only be listed publicly if Valve does it…See how ridiculous Valve is with their it’s against the rules to do something then they go ahead and do it anyway and then hey reprimand anyone that calls them out on it and you get told you’re being negative and disruptive as a reason…
FACT 5:
People praise Steam but trash UBISOFT (UPLAY) AND EA (ORIGN) which is completely moronic due to the fact that both UBISOFT AND EA make, own, and control, both the games and the service those games use. While Valve (Steam) does not own 99.9% of the games and they have on their service. So if UBISOFT and or EA want to ban someone from use they are full within their right to do so, because they own everything their shutting the consumer out from, where as VALVE thinks they own everything they sell no matter what and shut people out from using things they do not own WHICH under the USA federal laws is a felony. A subscriber agreement doesn’t make a company exempt from federal laws. but yet Steam fanboys seem to think otherwise and will argue profusely aboout what someone did to get banned instead of accepting the fact that it doesn’t matter what anyone did, IT IS ILLEGAL FOR VALVE TO BE BLOCKING CONSUMERS FROM BUYING/USING THINGS THEY DO NOT OWN the law is very clear about this and there is no “What did you do to get banned” or “Well you obviously did something to get banned” crap and there is no saying “Well you agreed to Steams Terms of service” either federal laws states it’s a consumer rights violation to do this which makes the subscriber agreement null and void in this aspect.
So when it comes to which service is better, you have to look at who owns things and what your rights as a consumer
btw ORIGIN was originally the EA DOWNLOAD MANAGER and has been around much longer than Steam.
In closing I will say that if a game developer uses another way to register their game such as AC IV or Watch Dogs which are both on Steam and Straight up UPLAY I will absolutely buy the game, but when a game developer uses only Steam as the method to get their game then I tell them I am going to pirate their game because there is no need for them to only be using Steam as if there is nothing else in existence. I outright refuse to support developers that only use Steam.
Everything I just stated is a fact so any Steam fanboy or company shill that wants to argue anything with useless crap is preaching to the choir false damage control responses don’t work with me because you cannot argue against facts by saying these aren’t facts…Search results pull up everything I just said in thousands of places.
Wow… relax man. You have WAAAY too much hate for STEAM. STEAM is the main reason PC gaming has become a main player in gaming right now. It’s what has opened up Sony and Microsoft’s eyes to digital distribution. You are arguing from a completely slanted perspective. Ya Valve doesn’t get everything right. That’s obvious… But they get more right then they get wrong, and that is why they are so successful. PC gamers by-in-large are a smart bunch, if they were getting screwed as bad as you are describing it then STEAM wouldn’t be as successful as they are. They would be like GFWL, a thing of the past. And besides most every console-only gamer i know finds out about STEAM and there amazing sales and how it all works, they always say “maybe I should start to check PC gaming out”. It is a large reason for more people coming over to PC gaming. And when STEAM-OS gets launched and PC has a “gaming only” OS then the PC as a gaming platform will be stronger then ever. And that is being brought out by Valve…. So I’m sure none of what I have said will affect someone as obviously biased and full of hate towards STEAM as you seem to be but they are still valid points, let the others reading decide.
You have absolutely no clue to half the things you’re posting about and most of what you did post about is false and incorrect. Steam has only become the way it is through sheer and utter manipulation, and no other reason. Valve has brain washed everyone that uses it to the point that they don’t even know what end is up anymore.
I can also pull up over 20 different places game developers can absolutely distribute their games without the need for any Steam attachment so that then that proves Steam doesn’t need to be in every single frigging game but yet Game developers still do it anyway as if there is nothing else in existence. There is nothing Steam does that’s necessary or needed and no one can argue or say anything against that.
So I’m not even going to get into this with you
They did well cracking Fifa 15 two months before it was released then, it released on 24th of September …just over a month ago. You might want to check your facts again.
Didn’t even bother to read you ranting but I have checked my CPU resource monitor with Steam, Uplay and anti virus software running in the background and CPU usage is less than 1% so
well said ..welllll said
Thanks mate.
That’s not the point and besides, loads of people complain about game breaking bugs and client lock-in.
Honestly if someone want have oryginal copy must buy the game. But all of games producer know that their game will be craced on all of platforms. I buy LotF in release daye and I’m very happy about that because this game is great.
I wish I’d gotten this version instead. The PS4 version is terrible.
oh you mean like driveclub? Is sony still apologizing for that screwup?
I don’t know if they are. I don’t really pay attention to anything they say anymore, to be honest with you. I spent $400 out of the gate and none of the promises they made came true, just like the PS3. No point in getting a Playstation until the end of the generation.
Well i put it this way, sony said they will do thing and will amaze..thats how sony is they lie and overhyped i learn that with ps3 and i avoided getting one until it had enough exlusives i wanted to play.
As it turns out the new consoles are not particulary powerfull and they have gone cheap on the hardware and the box itself.
Now as far as sales go both sell very well but you only have to take a look at game sales to reallize that most people who have ps4s just bought them out of hype, they are not really buying games, aint cod the highest selling game on ps4 with 3 million something? Sony exlusives are at one million something.
So wtf are those 12 milion plus playing?
Then you got demfax/extreme derp damage controling every nonsense that sony says. Next up he is gonna say that the farts that were heard from sony’s executive bathrooms were artistic choices and smelled good and we are all mentally ill malicious fanboys.
He even gave his adress to someone and accused him of being a xbot then that guy gave him his psn and demfax filled his inbox with long rant messages. That guy has a serious mental issue.
No matter how much evidence is presented to them, they always find a way to twist it around and praise Sony. It doesn’t really matter though because at the end of the day, PS4 owners are the ones stuck with a $400 paperweight; Not XB1 owners.
Both systems do the exact same thing meaning both connect to the internet, both can be hooked up to a TV, both can play media, both have stores, both have online, both play games. So in that regard you can’t say one is a paperweight, without including the other.
i actually agree to this, finally something you say that youre not being a d**k about. However I prefer Sony over microsoft, but i do love their windows os and phones
well xb1 does have higher rated grames on metacrtiic.
this is your first comment here that is not a troll. glad you post that way then we can talk instead of insulting each other. welcome
He’s got a split personality I’m sure of it, you don’t just change like that.
Poor Performance and Crashing is Explained Execryptor just uses to much CPU.
Like the Name says it (so dose the faq on there site) Encrypts the EXE in Memory basically means no matter how good a programmer you are its going to use twice the time and resources at least how there doing it (full real time Encryption every Process) to make debugging impossible.(except they will crack it and when they do the Pirated Game will run better than the Legal…)
This Happened back with Morrowind the copyright Protection was so good it ruined the game Even Customer support started offering links to the no cd patch to get the game working.. As it constantly asked for your CD every second not just when game started..
Here the thing I own a shop and I could make it 100% shoplifter Proof. But I don’t..Why ? Because my customers would resent being strip searched and body cavity Examined each time they tried to leave..
At a certain point you got to ask is it worth it to be at War with the people that pay me…And If my PROTECTIONS against theft cost me more than theft would.
Dragon age Origins… Mass effect… Witcher 2 Wolfenstein:TNO Metro 2033(original)..
I love how “Game for Windows Live” this s**t feels, Way to go CI Games. Alienate a huge chunk of audience by not letting us try the game for ourselves before buying. and I don’t wanna here how “hurr durr demo’s should be released” because unfortunately game devs realized their games good bits would only really fill up a demo -_-
well, if they start implementing that copy protection on every single pc game, looks like there will be 50-100 million pc gamers that will stop caring about ultra settings and mods, and will start playing on consoles :
some fresh comments from Steve, John, Peter and Mike, some random pc gamers :
*WTF ? i used to play dozens of pc games every month, for 0$ ! in 30 minutes, i was able to download the full ISO game via torrent, mount it, apply the nocd patch, and go !
Because i didn’t even have to pay 10cts for my +230 PC games, with that cash, i was able to upgrade my graphic card, every 6 months, with the cash i would save on games, cash that dad used to give me. Now, if i have to spend 50$ on my pc games, i will rather grab a ps4, with a PS+ subscription, i will get at least 50 free full games with scores like 8/10 and higher, every year*
another comment :
*these greedy devs are really some sob ! how can i play the game, now, if i need to pay 50$ for it ? it’s really not fair. the current business scheme is really bad. my daddy already pays for my internet line, we should be able to download games for free!*
another comment :
*without the cash of the billions PC games we, PC gamers, we buy, every month, companies will go banckrupt*
and another comment :
*they can’t do that! there must be a law, to protect us, american pc gamers! we have the freedom of speech, we should be able to do whatever we want, with the game we just downloaded from torrent, and installed on our computers, on our hard drives, with the electricity we pay every month, etc*.
are you trolling the ps4 fanboys or you are the king of them?
The PS4 version clearly has some issues. I hope they fix those soon.
was cracked on 29th oct by 3dm actually.
What was Cracked on the 29th?
Aren’t you getting a bit mad over my comment? I didnt brush aside the facts, but implying there isnt a good part of combat in The Witcher 2 is.
Nope there isn’t, and that’s my point. People who are in love with those types of games don’t see how little there is to do in them…Just like dragon age origins and Mass effect. Every single one of those game series have very little playing in them because the story takes up what could have been used for playing.
Also the story always have different choices giving off the illusion there are different paths, but people playing them fail to understand that no matter how many choices they’re shown on Screen, they all still arrive at the same exact point and because the player is so in love with this style of game they’re oblivious to that fact and cannot even be reasoned with.
In reality they aren’t different paths in these games, it’s just multiple ways to arrive at the same point and by changing one or two things here and there, people who are in love with this style of game are actually fooled into thinking they have been given a choices and they made choice of free will and did what they wanted to.
And whose getting mad? How did correcting people get turned into ATTITUDE or MAD?
WTF this must be the dumbest thing i ever heard ever, Little to do? In the witcher 2 LOOL QTEs? LOL
Witcher 2 combat has nothing to do with QTEs and is one of the best action RPgs combats there is, every monster is a threat and every monsters has its own strentgh and weaknesses making you have to come up with new strategies and making you diverse on what items magic you use what makes the combat always fresh and interesting.
2nd The witcher 2 must be one of the most complete Rpgs there ever was, with one of if not the best alchemy system in any RPG,variety of spells and a whole crap of items to discover plus the game story is ever changing making this one of the most if not the most re-playable single player game out there.
Also Witcher 2 has various endings with various points in the story which are diferent depending on which path you take therefore the story is never the same making your whole point about that stupid.
Plus its a game that makes you think a lot instead of hack n slashing or just jump some obstacles like many of the games you like which have more “playing” in them but i guess with you lacking the capability of thinking its no suprise you dont like it
To Compare The witcher to Mass effect or Dragon Origins is simply how should i say it……RETARDED.
Just look at the effort you put into correcting me. Certainly you’re a bit mad. Whatever, arriving at the same point no matter what choice you make? Are you reffering to how you always end in the Battle of Denerim in Dragon Age Origins, or “Suicide Mission” in Mass Effect? How does that relate that the game fools us and makes us believe our chaoices was made of free will and whatever? Now the game is in control of us, by some kind of hypnosis? Let’s just stop this, we’re talking about sh*t that has nothing to do with the topic in hand.
He’s right about the witchers combat though, its f’ing awful. If you think witcher has deep combat you must not have played any other rpgs. Even fans of the series say they tolerate the combat, do a search right now on review of its gameplay and every one on the first page says combat is trash but they liked the rest. Stop pretending its something its not. The game would be better as a series of cutscenes in a hack and slash not trying to be an rpg when the system is that s**t
Hahaha you have issues man, don’t take it out on great games, find a good shrink instead.
I understand what you’re saying – I wasn’t impressed by the gameplay of those games – but who are you to judge what other people like?
If they enjoy the story then so what? People play games for different reasons. You shouldn’t just jump into a conversation by insulting lots of people. You know better than that.
Speak for yourself – if you don’t like those games that’s fine, even voice your opinion in all CAPS, I don’t care, but don’t insult others for their interests. That’s the very definition of trolling.
Too bad it’s DRM makes it crash non stop, so people that actually PAID FOR IT can’t play it. Never buying another CI game again.
Denuvo has been cracked before and will be cracked again. Might hold up for days even longer on a low interest title but it will be smashed in the coming weeks and as usual only paying customers will suffer from it. Pirates will enjoy it nonsense free and in the mean time will simply tap into their stockpile of other things.
Dragon age will draw more interest so if it uses it I expect the response from the groups will be swifter and if it causes similar performance issues the throwback too. Not to mention its only sold on that so called service origin which is quite limiting already. Oh well shiver me timbers I’ve no upsettings about not being able to play with poo such as it.
“who are notorious for illegal activities toward it’s consumers”
ehhhhh?
when? I get origin but valve?
Valve illegal activities consist of but are not limited to the following:
Any closing of an account with games on it Valve doesn’t own.
Omitting all negative comments about a game from the forum right before the push of a sale
Valves free weekends are illegally advertised
Valve IP blocking people’s accounts
Valve Falsely charging credit cards over and over.
The list goes on but that’s a start.
“Omitting all negative comments about a game from the forum right before the push of a sale”
ehhh where?
I’ll take that reply as pure sarcasm.
You’ve been an ass hat on every single post made on the article, just go the fuck away if literally no one wants you here.
Soon 3 years, never have problem blocked IP or close account. And never listen this. I think It’s fake.
I still have my acct from 2003 and with tons of “officially purchased” games I never paid for but used a cdkey off the internet. Steam is awesome.
I think you’re not aware that DRM was developed to combat piracy, not the other way around.
And you’re not aware that security features and an agreement are different
DRM is not a security feature it’s an agreement. Where as Security features wee created to prevent piracy.
DRM is the implementation of IP protection via computing technologies. It is composed of security features via software/hardware in tandem with licensing agreements the purchaser is agreeing to while purchasing the software. Therefore, DRM itself is not an “agreement”, the license is. DRM is merely intended to ensure the user honors the agreement.
But I digress… my previous comment intended to highlight the reason for DRM’s existence, not get into the details of what DRM actually is. If copyright infringement (i.e. piracy) didn’t exist, neither would DRM.
there is a diffirence between visually appealing and gbeing graphically impressive.
The game doesnt look much diffirnet on pc than it looks on the old consoles as oppose to games like say bf3 and metro, which i sad because it looked good in e3 but they downgraded it.
I never said dark souls is a bad port.
Can’t be any worse than Ubisoft’s horrid Uplay system that has given me nothing but headaches. When the copy protection drags down the performance of the game or prohibits game play of something I’ve paid for then it’s time to spend my money somewhere else. I haven’t bought Lords of the Fallen yet, and won’t until it’s confirmed that the DRM is not negatively impacting gameplay. I’ve been through paying for something I can’t play thanks to overzealous copy protection, I won’t pay a company to screw me out of my money ever again.
Uncrackable or Working game day 1. Winner = uncrackable (so far). Money is the answer. This sounds like EA has poisoned the industry with this buggy day one s**t.
When the game drops to 19.99 i will buy it. But good method for not allowing people to crack down. Honestly i do download games, like old ones but who in the right mind would want to download games at 30-40gb lol or even 20GB , no thanks.
“DS didn’t even explain how to open it’s menu”
exactly…this is why people love dark souls. because it doesnt treat the player like an idiot. a sentiment you obviously dont share…since you seem to be an idiot.
I think more people want to buy the game now so all of games is craced later. I hear developerds release patch 1.2 for this game so they still works to fix all of bug in the game.
Gaming is sooooooooo important. Lets pretend it really is by arguing about it. You all should get together and make a DRM free game that is all about leveling up your characters ability to whine and moan about trivial BS lmao
OH MY F***ING GOD that Mathew guy is really annoying,
1. You yet to prove anything you said.
2. youre saying people are picking fights with you but theyre not( I am though technically) heres the difference, Im calling you a dumb f*tard cause yes i download illegaly, and i have steam meaning i have experience with both s**t.
3. youre completely annoying cause you are not in anyway contributing to this forum, i may not be either other than the fact of somebody finally telling you to just F’ off
4. Steam isnt doing anything illegal, but i do hate how you require it to play anygame basically these days and i probably wont be paying games when im forced to have internet after buying parts to build a 1000-3000 dollar computer compared to $300 console
Yes i think poor people should not play games , they should all die. Do you really think that if someone had the money to buy a game he wouldn’t? From my personal view i don’t know how many times i saw an exciting Game trailer and after buying a game i wanted to find the creator and kick him in the nuts.You present is as a big success but the computer history tells as that what’s made from a man will eventually be hacked by someone smarter just for the fun of it. I didn’t mean to offend anyone , i just don’t like to think like a politician of a party.