NieR: Automata is a highly anticipated game that will be released on the PC on March 17th. However, we have some bad news for all those boycotting games that are using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. NieR: Automata will be using Denuvo.
Although the game’s Steam store page does not mention it, its EULA makes it perfectly clear that it will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
According to the game’s EULA:
“12.6 The PC version of the Product Software uses Sony DADC Austria AG’s Denuvo (“Denuvo”) content protection technology. Acceptance of this Agreement, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and an Internet connection are required to verify your license. The technical protection measures of the Product Software may require you to download certain data to your device in order to authenticate the Product Software. Certain files of the anti-tamper technology may remain even after the Product Software is uninstalled from your computer.”
And that is that everyone!
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I give 19 days for this be cracked. xD
It takes months to crack any build of Denuvo. Far pass the peak sales period of a title.
Lol no.
Resident Evil 7 was cracked in like 5 days. That was using the latest and greatest Denuvo.
Wake up, dude. RE7 likely used an older build also used in another title.
“Wake up dude. Re7 likely…..” Hmmm facts VS assumptions.
Denuvo themselves said it used their latest version.
their latest version which was in the re7 demo and then used again in the final game. i mean, you should like read the facts before you say stupid sh*t. wont happen again. same with deus ex dlc, same iteration of denuvo in the final game, once it was cracked dlc was cracked.
Soooo lets do a experiment here, are you ok with that though? Are you ok with publishers removing denuvo after a year?
Sure, even though it’ll never happen.
Great, so it will be patched and have all the DLCs.
Alright, skip. We’ll see when it costs like 15€
“The PC version of the product uses Sony DADC Austria AG’s Denuvo.” “Uses Sony…” Goddammit they had the ruin it somehow just for the fact that their game isn’t exclusive to their platform.
If the big 3 had more power, they would willingly cripple PC so hard that it would cease to exist. They want their indestructible walled garden, it’s their dream.
It’s so true it hurts.
I got a PS4 Pro recently in raffle. Quite a few nice, fun exclusives.
Despise the community though. They’ll argue to HIFL and back that the PS4 version of -any- game is superior. Superior graphics, ect. They actually make claims like the PS4 has better textures than PC versions…it’s insanity.
Then they say exclusives are good for the industry – while they heap praise on Witcher 3, saying how it’s one of the best “PS4” games. A game series traditionally PC exclusive. Which only went to consoles after huge fan demand. Then they turn around and call PC gamers “PC Port beggars” whenever they ask for an exclusive on PC, like Nioh or Horizon Zero Dawn.
I’m already having to put up with HZD overhype talk over on the VGChartz website. They are citing that game alone as the new “graphics king”, when all they have been doing so far this gen is citing all their exclusives as “kings”, refusing to see anything else outside.
The tech for example that is going into Star Citizen is amazing, sure the game isn’t complete but we’re seeing early access games being tossed out left right and center, alphas and even betas of some AAA games, games that get “crowned”, yet showing season passes and micro transaction schemes out the wazoo.
Meanwhile I’m sitting here in awe that we can shoot a ship into tiny little bits with your ship gatling guns, or being able to fly from a space station to an entire planet, all without having a blasted long loading screen, apparently that doesn’t matter to some console gamers, yet they tout power from their end, it’s just silly af
Yeah I find W3 praise from them as weird, considering that for years they willingly ignored the franchise and slammed it for a long time, then suddenly they get a slightly better version than the X1 and they parade it around as if they loved the franchise all along…
Don’t forget that this is the same fan base, the same one that got so damn wound up tight when 360 stole their supposed “victory” from last gen, despite the fact that the PS3 caught up in the end, even though the Wii outsold them both combined. Now this gen they won because the other two shot themselves up completely, they ride on that easy victory with full pride. I bet that they will get wound up all over again when the other two and PC come in over the next few years and wallop them good. I also find it stupid how they call PC gamers beggars when I see them doing the same thing all over Youtube and some even making those petitions as well.
The funny thing is that if horizon or nioh would have been multi platform these Sony fanboys wouldn’t be calling them king. And certainly not calling horizon as graphics king. I mean just look at wildland that game alone has better texture and physics effects than horizon.
But do you see digital foundry (or rather Sony foundry) doing it’s tech analysis? No. These people are just taking advantage of these delusional fanboys and getting as high views as possible.
I guess with the whole exclusivity talk gives them a sense of value or something, like no one else can have that toy, so it makes that toy special, not the fact that the game just happens to be made by a different set of devs.
Not gonna deny that HZD looks nice, but I adore the tech that’s gone into SC all the more, mainly because we haven’t seen such amount of advanced tech in a single open world game ever until that game came along. Majority of games have had us stuck with loading screens, open world games stuck in early access and low visual fidelity states etc.
It’s been a while since I’ve checked on DF, mostly because their benches are limited and always has them sporting a low end/middleware system vs PS4 most of the time. Instead I watch Duderandom84, since he actually pits both the X1 and PS4 against one another as well as a myriad of PC hardware against them as well as other PC configs, all based on what you ask of him (something DF has yet to learn and undertake).
Tbh there will always be those dudes who know how to bench and talk tech lingo, yet use it for the wrong reasons, it’s why we even have those people in the first place, because they want to spur crap and think they matter. All I say is bench and let the results do the talking, don’t sugarcoat it with if and buts, or “X was better in this part of the game than Y”, just let the benches speak for them.
When Star Citizen will release I’m betting it will set new standard in terms of graphics technology as it had been done in the past when Crysis 1 was released.
The last part you said I definetly agree. Some games are better than other in some areas while worse in some other area. The results are there to decide which factor matters more.
Why I called Horizon not impressive is because for a game that looks this beautiful(Yes I do acknowledge that it’s pretty) it doesn’t even have the kind of effects we see in most of open world game today. One that comes to mind is water not reacting to the player’s movement(there are more like no GI and more). And yet when someone calls it “Graphics king” I just can’t accept that. Just because it’s exclusive people ignore the flaws and rant like a fanboy.
To be fair ps4 has the least exlusives sony ever had and lets not even talk about xbone, console eslusivty is dying as for ps4 fanboys they are by far the worst.
But aren’t ps4 fanboys calling ps4 the best gen ever? And every game as graphics king because they haven’t played any games on PC?
well MS already tries with their UWP nonsence … and Sony and Denuvo are old firends (aka they were part of the company before management buyout)
Yup. Like most big corporate entities.
Cry, baby, cry, lol.
Never seen someone so butthurt that someone else doesnt like when a corporation is using some form of corporate suit protection DRM to screw them over ownership of the product they bought.
You must be one of those who loved spore’s drm….and did not care at all that the game was rendered unplayable in some cases.
Well said Durka
Sony has nothing to do with the current Denuvo technology.
You told us already….also they prefered to use denuvo than optimizet the game 770 minimum really?
It’s the current year bro, 2017. the 7 in 2017 means the minimum for games is a GTX 770.
I like the way you think.
wel sht, that means i will need to get a laptop in 2018, because 800 series are mobile only.
“bad news for all those boycotting games that are using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. ”
boycotting games because of Denuvo?
What a funny joke :))))
Only Pirates say that :/ 😐 DSOPirates 😐
people are in denial, denuvo is bad but not buying a game because of it is definitely what a pirate would say
The game costs 60€ no reason, maybe a reason now is that it’s using denuvo
No it isn’t because of Denuvo!
in PS4 game have some price
PS4 games always cost that and PC games have always been the cheapest. That’s not a reason.
Nope!
Inside PS4=20$-PC=20$
Recore on Xbox one=40$-PC=40$
Every standard game have a some price in PS4,Xbox one and Steam.
But in steam you can purchased games with low price by your Region.
Yope!
Go look at normal games of few years back at least, every PC game was always 10/20€ cheaper
Not sure about PC vs. console prices, but in regards to the PC prices of 5+ years ago vs. the PC prices of 2017, that’s another issue entirely;
At first, that particular practice was exclusive to Activision abusing currency conversion to directly convert 60 USD to 60 Euros (solely on Call of Duty titles, though), then it slowly became more & more common on major AAA’s, as publishers discovered they could get away with it.
Today, it’s standard solely because the Euro’s simply dropped that much. Yes, it’s still marginally theft, but until we go back to 1 Euro = 1.20 USD, this is going to remain, & even then, really, it’ll be difficult to switch back, since greed is greed with these people, after all.
I could be mistaken, but even now i remember seeing console games costing more than pc’s, not many, but still.
Digital or retail? Retail is always over-inflated. Digital….. No idea.
That i don’t remember either, it was most likely digital, but i’m not sure
its not only reason … for me it was the last straw that push it from “Day One” to “One Day”
Yeah, okay kiddo.
Not true, i boycott all games :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLSnGe06kAI
:)) lol
you mock it but mafia 3 sold well despite no denuvo, cracked day one and bad sales, so did fallout 4 and gta v, i think there is a case here for legitimate denuvo boycotts.
The optimization seems to be awful going by the requirements and now DENUVO crap too? make a great port first and than put your useless DRM trash.
Denuvo is trying…CPY tries harder. 🙂
(not in favor for “piracy”,just passing by and trying to be clever)
Goodbye 2B panties mod…
well it protects the exe not the game content.
Why is this news?
Why wouldn’t it be? 0.o
Technically this was reported as a rumour a while back, so to a degree, re-posting what’s basically the same information is a little superfluous.
But, yeah, worth posting, IMO.
Even if only for the comments that flow from it ^^
it’d be the dream if people suddenly stopped buying the game, then SE would be at a loss, but at the same time most pubs would resort to calling it our fault rather than their own, to make them sleep better at night.
I’ve always seen the “vote with your wallet” advice to be moot for the most part, mostly because it doesn’t send the most clear of messages to the company you are boycotting, that and it sometimes gives that company the go ahead to stop selling to you, based on their excuse that you didn’t buy their busted game, the public of course would very much believe them than fellow consumers.
companies who implant Denovu tech on their games are just begging to be pirated
when you use Denovu on your game, you’re literally challanging the pirates to “liberate” that game from Denovu
Lol. All comments with links need to be manually approved. No need to repeat posting it, we don’t censor memes 😉
Then where were you guys some hrs ago with the first one?.
http://i.imgur.com/TYgQiWT.jpg
Wonder whats the deal with wording of “content protection technology” instead of “anti-tamper technology” they used before.
Also why they go through Sony DADC , when they are now called Denuvo AG?
Probably because of the bad rap it got as an “anti-modding” tool. “Content protection” means it’s targeted at one thing, specifically, whereas “anti-tamper” means it’s more wide-range focused.
They might still be registered as Sony DADC in Japan, or the US, or some other country, so they either use both names, or the old name in order to avoid having to update their registrations.
Sony DADC is the CD, DVD and Blu Ray manufacturer from Sony.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GOOD POINT!
Well then it’s either some legal thing, or they just never changed it (somehow).
Denuvo bought out some of the Sony DADC copyright software which was used for Music and Video DRM way back. They still have to name Sony DADC for copyright protection since Denuvo is based on their software.
band trolls? Never heard their songs, are they any good?
Never heard of them?.
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you would be pretty stupid to miss out on such a great game cause of denuvo. bought 5 copies to give out to friends and i will gladly suport more games like this on the pc.
It’s not more stupid than buying 5 copies of the same game without even knowing how it runs or plays.
I had half a mind to purchase this game too, but all I needed to hear was “Certain files of the anti-tamper technology may remain even after the Product Software is uninstalled from your computer.”” and think of Sony’s invention of the PC rootkit to say no thanks. I haven’t pirated a game since I have been an adult really, but I don’t think this one even warrants the effort, such a shame platinum games usually has stellar gameplay.
butt is comingggggggggggggggggggggggggg
please, next time if any game don’t use Denuvo then post it or else don’t cuz now everyone use it.
So it got delayed on PC and have that cancer as well, but it’s not news, it’s SquareEnix.
I don’t even get mad any more. I already had a few reasons to not pick this up, Denuvo just seals the deal.
srsly, we do not care.
I guess I need to wait a year and half in order to play Nier Automata for free.
I do not mind waiting for the full crack, as long as I can play the game for free because Denuvo Anti-Tamper is takes “time” to crack down.
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So the game will be up on steam at 9am pst (on the 17th) for the US. Jp time is 2am jst on the 18th -> so aus shuld be arnd 4am jst on the 18th