SEGA has just announced that Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 will not be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. According to the team, the inclusion of Denuvo in the game’s Steam store page was a mistake and has since been removed.
In Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, players will engage in up to 4 player online and local play, including competitive Puzzle Leagues and the new online co-op Boss Raid mode.
The game will have a large cast of new and returning characters including Sonic the Hedgehog, Lidelle, Ms. Accord, and The Ocean Prince.
Additionally, the game will have new RPG-inspired Skill Battles. Players can test their might in the robust Skill Battle mode where powerful character skills can change the landscape of their match, from recovering HP to changing the color of Puyos to erasing Lines, and more. Players can choose carefully to create a team with complementary skills. Moreover, players will be able to equip strong Item Cards, and watch their HP and MP in battle.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is coming to PC on March 23rd.
Enjoy!
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SEGA must have realized that:
1) They would fxck up again and leak denuvoless exe
2) Denuvo is getting a 10% price increase starting March 31, 2021
3) The game has been perfectly playable on Yuzu switch emulator for a long time now
4) There’d be no extra content after the PC launch so having to dedicate workforce to remove the DRM a year later would be a waste of money
5) Tetris is too niche for PC market and a big chunk of revenue would go towards using denuvo
6) Most importantly… Piracy doesn’t hurt sales (So why pay some austrian anti-consumer cxnts possibly killing any game in the next few years?!)
Option 1 woudn’t stop them from trying, so I’ll go with option 2(in this case), 3, 4 and 5. Option 6 is a half truth that consumers like to tell themselves to feel better and also unfalsifiable. SEGA almost always put Denuvo on big releases and this one ain’t it.
Why is 6 a half truth ? What was the last time anyone proved DRM helped sales ?
You can’t prove DRM help sales just like you can’t prove DRM free help sales.
But u can. There is a WHOLE busnisess around DRM free games, do you think your average joe cares if the game is DRM free or not ? Not really, but the fact that we have a dedicated busniess around DRM free proves there is a market for it, that alone already have an influance on the sales.
Also the music industry aalready wnt throug the same thing anad it has been proved that when she did drop the DRM sale numbers went up.
“There is a WHOLE busnisess around DRM free games”
Interesting, there is also a WHOLE business that uses DRM to sell their games, mostly centered around consoles, and also on PC with lots of big releases using DRM and making big money. One of the reasons PC ports always ends up late(up to 10 years or more) is because they already squeezed the console DRM boxes for all it’s worth.
“it has been proved that when she did drop the DRM sale numbers went up.”
Show me the evidence then. I mean do you even know what DMCA is? You can cry all you want among internet anons about “how DRM free is better” and i do agree, but making an argument about better sales is disingenuous at best.
Fact is the big shots at the music or game industry are still skeptical about these claims, or they just like to be a$$h0les, and are not going to ditch copyrights, DRM any time soon.
The people who pirate the copies wouldnt buy it in the first place, there’s the chance that you can buy it later on sale if you liked the game.
And since you can’t meassure how many pirate or arent interested in buy said game…i would say that piracy can help in sales, word of mouth is basically free publicity (if the game is good, and those are the only ones worthy of a buck from anyone)
So, make a good game and you wont need DRM.
I got called a “slow pirate” one time because I always wait and buy AAA games for $15 or less on a good sale but that’s getting harder to do. I still have some games in my 2017 folder that I want to buy but they rarely get put on sale and then it’s usually for 60% off.
There was a time when I would pay full price but no longer.
Your post can be summed as “i can’t prove if DRM will help sales or not”
“So, make a good game and you wont need DRM.”
Good game is subjective and lots of good games without DRM don’t sell much or the reverse is true, lots of games with DRM (good or not) sell like hotcakes. Just take the middle ground like i did, i can’t prove either case.
Then what’s the point of this discussion? like i said…DRM is pointless when you have cases of games without it “selling like hotcakes” (Witcher 3 being the golden boy of the examples for this). How good is a game is far from subjetive.
You have games with DRM selling good and bad, you also have games without DRM (or a crappy one) selling good and bad, so you would need parallel universe to see if the same game would fare better with or without DRM, but since we don’t have that publishers get the data on the very best selling games to date, and those are online only or MMORPG games.
Sure, but then don’t claim that piracy hurts sales. We have examples of games gaining a second wind after the publishers remove the DRM, first example that comes to mind are the Bethesda games release on GOG or the Arkham games (granted, these last ones are fairly “old”).
TLDR: We just dont know, but we can pretend we do .
“Sure, but then don’t claim that piracy hurts sales.”
Eh, i didn’t claim that.
“We have examples of games gaining a second wind after the publishers remove the DRM”
The lesson this gives to publishers is that they can remove DRM once they have milked the game enough, not that they should release their games this way going forward. Last time i checked, Doom Eternal still got Denuvo.
10 years ago consoles were king. For the past few years PC game revenue has soared and Publishers are taking note of this and releasing games that never would have made a lot back then on PC. I remember one of the larger Publishers just came right out and said it. We aren’t going to release games on PC because we make our money from console sales and we believe consoles are the future.
You don’t hear any garbage like that from Publishers anymore. Hell, I haven’t heard “PC Gaming is dying” in years.
“You don’t hear any garbage like that from Publishers anymore.”
I woudn’t say it was garbage, just the sad reality that they needed consoles to get money. We also have the DRM free company that used to send C&D letters for users who pirate their games…
“PC game revenue has soared and Publishers are taking note”
Maybe they are not taking notes in the way we want. Remember that the bulk of PC sales comes from free-to-play, online games and some garbage indies.
“releasing games that never would have made a lot back then on PC.”
Ah yes releasing 10 year old ports to PC and still making bank. I will believe you when the reverse is true, when we go back to AAA games exclusive for PC and AAA multiplat games that release first on PC and later on consoles, same in regards to DRM, all games should be DRM free.
I shouldn’t have called it garbage because it was true for the most part but it just seemed like The Publisher never needed to say it in an interview.
I recall Warren Spector admitting that the PC release of Deus Ex:IW was a mere afterthought a few years ago. It’s not like most PC Gamers didn’t already know that on release back in 2003.
DRM like Denuvo can’t be proven to increase sales. There is no way to prove it. You either accept on faith that is does or doesn’t work to hinder piracy. Basically when a Publisher pays for Denuvo they are accepting on faith that gamers who would have just pirated are going to now buy the game instead of waiting until it’s cracked.
There’s no way to know whether a pirate will pay for the game instead of waiting on the crack and then there are the 10s of millions of pirates that won’t buy the game anyway because they are too poor.
“Basically when a Publisher pays for Denuvo they are accepting on faith that gamers who would have just pirated are going to now buy the game instead of waiting until it’s cracked.”
Maybe they have acess to data we don’t. Maybe they tried to see if DRM free have an positive impact on sales but didn’t found conclusive proof.
Why would it, nobody will play it either way. What the hell is this anyway?
I love Tetris but gawd that looks brutal. Tetris Effect will be announced and coming to steam soon. The 6 month microsoft exclusivity should be ending May 10th. They said summer 2021 and summer starts June 20th. So should be getting an announcement in the next few weeks
They’re learning, that’s good
Some companies are just mired in wrong thinking and can’t learn like Ubisoft for example. The CEO said 8 years ago that 95% of PC Gamers are pirates. That may be true but he didn’t finish the thought out. How many of those 95% will ever buy the game anyway because they can’t afford to buy them?
I have yet to see an executive at any game Publisher showing any kind of proof that using Denuvo causes gamers to buy the game instead of waiting.
The only DRM free company we got isn’t doing any favors in regards to their DRM free cause: Sending threatening letters to pirates and now in the business of scamming people with buggy as hell products. Ubisoft gets a lot of hate but it is still the bigger company money wise, releasing more games and such. And if you look at the best selling games out there, the biggest are online games that can’t be pirated aniways.
That was quite a turn around in philosophy about DRM on CDPRs part.
I still think CDPR just released Cyberpunk too early. Maybe a year from when it was released would have been a good goal. They should have done more patching but they just kept moving the release date forward which made quite a few gamers angry anyway.
Especially hard hit with bugs were the console gamers.
Regardless of CDPR’s faults, they are a good case study: Their DRM free game store is sucessful but a niche market, Steam is still at the top, and their AAA releases sells good enough, but they still compromise their design catering to DRM ridden consoles, so they are not the sucessful story and definitive proof that DRM free is the way to go as consumers advocates would like to think.
The last financials that I saw on GOG is that they are barely making any money. Not a good place to be in. Their revenue fell by 45% from 2019 to 2020. Cyberpunk probably helped CDPR but I do wonder how many of the 8 million pre-orders got refunded.
Ouch! Not good news for DRM free advocates. It’s not like i don’t like DRM free, just giving a dose of reality check in this situation, and turns out i was still optimistic lol.
Their no DRM policy really hurts them because a lot of Publishers won’t release their games on GOG due to this. It used to be that you could find oldies on GOG but most that I check are on Steam as well and most gamers will buy on Steam before any other store.
I’m assuming that the last quarter of 2020 and this quarter’s revenue will be up for them due to a lot of gamers not working and being stuck at home so much.
Some “not so smart” people go out anyway. I was reading earlier this morning on another site about a prison escapee in the UK getting taken back to prison because he went to a gamestop to buy the latest Call of Duty game. He stopped and turned around when 2 cops were looking and that’s what made them suspicious.
“It used to be that you could find oldies on GOG but most that I check are on Steam as well and most gamers will buy on Steam before any other store.”
Because most gamers don’t care about DRM at all, majority of them will buy a DRM game on steam rather than on GOG, be it new or old.
“Their no DRM policy really hurts them because a lot of Publishers won’t release their games on GOG due to this.”
If i where them, i would ditch this feature or make an alternate store with DRM games included.
Then why didn’t Sega remove Denuvo from big releases like Yakuza 7? More like they know this game is hot garbage and isn’t worth slapping a DRM on it.
SEGA must have realized that:
1) They would fxck up again and leak denuvoless exe
2) Denuvo is getting a 10% price increase starting March 31, 2021
3) The game has been perfectly playable on Yuzu switch emulator for a long time now
4) There’d be no extra content after the PC launch so having to dedicate workforce to remove the DRM a year later would be a waste of money
5) Tetris is too niche for PC market and a big chunk of revenue would go towards using denuvo
6) Most importantly… Piracy doesn’t hurt sales