Now here is a pleasant surprise. The second episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm has just been released on Steam. And from the looks of it, Square Enix has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Square Enix has used Denuvo in pretty much all of its latest titles, and this is perhaps the only one for which Denuvo has been removed.
Some of Square Enix’s games that use the Denuvo anti-tamper tech are: Just Cause 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider and NieR Automata. As said, this is the only game for which Square Enix removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
What’s also curious here is that the upcoming HD remake of Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope will use Denuvo. According to its Steam store page, Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope Remaster incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper.
We don’t know whether Denuvo was removed by a mistake or not. In the past we’ve seen developers and publishers releasing – by mistake – patches without the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Most of them are usually quick to react and release hotfixes that re-introduce Denuvo. As such, it remains to be seen whether this is a similar case or not.
Kudos to our reader Pooria for informing us!
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To be honest, it’s hard to believe that they removed it intentionally…
Good move though….
How is this “SJW garbage”?
Maybe not that garbage, but still SJW
Just because the game have a lesbian relationship .Sad, DSO is turning in a homophobe site.
Lesbians abuse their children and are violent, unlike lesbian p*rn actress, now THAT is sad. take your sodomy propaganda elsewhere…
Lesbians abuse their children and are violen”
Go away with your ignorance and homophobia ok?
Nah he is right about this one, lesbians seem to have really high domestic violence ratings.
You better get used to it, bigot. Also, forgot to add that lesbians are ugly fat bishes, unlike video game characters.
also true
Lmao no, it’s not only for that, it’s all the atmosphere present in the game, And nobody here is homophobe, wtf.
Yeah, basically, that’s why Social Justice Warrior, today’s society is nothing to go proud of btw.
A non-answer? What do you want me to answer to? What you described is exactly what SJW represents, also no, i’m not an old man, i’m 23, but sure i don’t think most of today’s teens have that good of education and attitude. So, i don’t know what to say apart from this.
Just don’t start any kind of war for this bs, the game is way to emotional for my tastes, but it’s not a bad game.
I was talking about education in terms of knowing about something, my grammar isn’t probably good because i’m not native english.
Also it’s SJW mainly because it treats stuff like homosexuality (i’m not saying it’s a bad thing, so don’t start any kind of flame), which is a very actual, and SJW thing, why SJW? Because many people either see it bad or good but not for something they really think, but just because the society thinks that. But not that only, what about bullism, related suicide, and stuff like that? I mean that’s all SJW.
pretty much
“HEY LOOK AT ME I AM LATINA X, AND I AM SO GAY AND LGBTQ
No one cares!!!!
BUT LOOK HOW SPECIAL I AM, DONT YOU WANNA KNOW MOREA ABOUT ME.
Nope!!!
I don’t understand why are you so salty about it, it’s not like i’ve insulted anyone, i’m just saying since the game treats those “arguments”, it can be considered easily SJW.
SJW people always existed, it was the term that was minted recently, but the people always existed, it’s not an insult, it’s just a group of people.
Man you seemed a pretty reasonable person to talk with in other posts, i don’t understand why you’re acting like this now.
If you’re homosexual, and you feel insulted, i’m sorry i never meant to.
I don’t know you sound very salty and upset, if you consider SJW an insult, like di**head or piece of s*it i don’t know what to tell you, you remind me of someone in here, that considered fanboy an insult.
I don’t understand what’s not clear (from wikipedia)
“Social justice warrior” (commonly abbreviated SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual promoting socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, multiculturalism, and identity politics. The accusation of being an SJW carries implications of pursuing personal validation rather than any deep-seated conviction, and being engaged in disingenuous social justice arguments or activism to raise personal reputation, also known as virtue signalling.”
I understand your point, but it’s not an insult come on.
Whatever…
“that does a good job of showing what teens are like in today’s society?”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Oh god, HAHAHAHHAHA lol… yeah the mileneal generations is screeewed
Not suprising at all that the new generation, generation z rejects all of this and is extremely conservative in their views.
Yes they are. Google it “youngsters” are the most conservatives in decades.
Stop calling this a homophobic site just because a few people don’t like the game because it has a gay theme, it’s called preference, no one irrationally fears gay people, this is not the 70s/80s.
No, these people actually understand, that’s not irrational, it’s a natural response to something you find repulsive.
Because you don’t have an argument other than feelings. You know it’s not the 80s where straight people thought gay people were the cause of AIDS, that’s where a lot of the “phobia” came from. Now as usual like the other “phobia” words it’s used as propaganda to silence people.
You are stuck on the past.
shut up already, i am sick and tired of dumb kids who know nothing accusing people of horrible things because they dont agree with post mordernist propaganda. Why does everything has to have “insert non white male group here”
Thats like looking everything from a feminist perspective, when everything is not made from a feminist perspective.
This game is all about a lesbian story with some sci. Thats ok. Thats fine. But to claim everyone doesnt agree with the shoving of identity politics into media,that doesnt make them horrible people or litteraly cthulu h i t l er
Both those things are true though. There are statistics.
See here is the problem, the problem is that you are reading only left wing sites and you dont learn any of the bad things that happen. For example yesterday i read that a transexual woman, meaning a man, r a p e d a little girl in a bathroom… BUT THE LEFT TOLD US THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
But you dont know about that now do you? You didnt hear about it from left “leaning” sites now did you?
No one means all, but statistics prove that lesbian couples have high domestic violence ratings.
this guy is a shill, i don’t mind fegits.
this website is not for you, do yourself a favor and go to PCgamer, you fit there perfectly.
Yea, you dont belong here with u ignorance.
this is all you here on this site that pedo aka john (author) keeps baiting denuvo
to generate $$$ out of these whining virgins aka pirates on this site this pirate aka john just promotes piracy and cancerous news to generate $$$ then gives a foot note we don’t support piracy
lol wtf? if only john was a cracker…
how the flying f**k is john a pedo?
sure he’s a cuck, but a pedo???
Why would you spread these false allegations against our boy John?
Shame on you.
he is obviously your typical troll with a new account.
oh look here comes the pirate aka durka durka how is that torrenting life going you little cancerous little s~!t
Its people who don’t share their view. Aka, Nazis, Anti-SJW people.
i dont know about sjw but it sure is cringe.
Type “life is tumblr” in youtube
What does it need to qualify as sjw? By your logic some people will find it sjw and some wont. Since cringe is debatable.
Next time i see a cringe complilation i will say “no this is not cringe my good sir i do not find this cringe.”
and according to sjws, sjws dont exist.
No.
Answer my question first, what about Life is Strange is “SJW garbage”? The game has no agenda, it’s just portraying modern life in teenage society and a college. That’s it.
Do you know what an SJW is?
So there’s lesbians. Hardly anything new. Tumblr writing? The f*ck is that? Feminist terms? Like what? I never heard any when I was playing through the game.
And even if it has all those things you claim, what about it makes it SJW garbage? It’s a video game trying to show life as a teenager on a modern-day college campus. It’s going to show things college kids do and say.
What a bias, ridiculous video.
None of this proves your point. It’s just a bunch of clips, taken out of context and thrown together.
instead of relying on utterly laughable videos to poorly explain your point how about you do it yourself.
Explain to me how Life Is Strange is an SJW game?
“Explain to me how Life Is Strange is an SJW game?”
Do we need someone like Jordan Peterson to make a post modenist analysis of the whole thing to get it?
I want you to explain it, as I have clearly asked several times now and you haven’t. My mind isn’t “made up”, I want you, specifically, to explain to me how Life Is Strange is an “SJW” game and you haven’t.
All you’ve done is link me to an absurd video and said “if you can’t see it then I can’t help you” which tells me you don’t actually know, you’re just spouting sh*t. If you can’t explain your opinions and beliefs then maybe you should look at why you have them.
What “tumblr writing”?
being cringe is an SJW thing now? Because that video you linked made me cringe.
Childish dialogue? Such as…And they are teenagers after all…
What Mary Sue? All the female characters are deeply flawed people who make mistakes.
All men are evil narrative? You’re definitely going to have to explain that because I didn’t get that from the game at all.
So no, that isn’t enough for me because yet again you haven’t explained anything. Just writing these things isn’t an explanation.
Oh boy, now you are just tossing around buzzwords like actual SJWs do.There’s no difference between you and some far left person screaming “racist!! sexist!!!”. It’s mind boggling man, how do you guys not see your own hypocrisy.
Centrist? What’s that? Morally superior? Who’s keeping themselves morally superior? That’s simply your own assumption. I’m just someone who looks at things individually and formulate an opinion based on that instance. Obviously a radical feminist such as Zarna Joshi is stupid. However, should I put a feminist who perhaps wants more girls to get into science in the same leagues as Zarna? Sure, her views may be flawed but that doesn’t mean I need to go homogenizing everyone to the same standard. And I can use similar examples for right leaning individuals as well. I don’t need to put extremely far right white supremacists in the same league as someone such as Ben Shapiro for example.
The point I’m making is, the “skeptic community” has become a joke at this point. Nobody thinks critically anymore. Nobody wants to have the hard discussions. It’s simply “US OR THEM!!!” and that applies to both left leaning and right leaning individuals.
Sure, LiS may indeed have an agenda behind it but at the end of the day, it’s still a great game with great characters and solid writing. Obviously you can disagree and say you think the game isn’t that great but to pass off the game as “garbage” simply because of an SJW agenda? Nah, I’m gonna have to disagree with that.
Quite a few on this site it seems.
It’s because the “anti-SJW” community have become this irrational hivemind so deep in their rabbit hole and sees everything even remotely left leaning as being PC and filled with SJWs.
They just go everywhere screaming “OMG I HATE THESE LIBTARDS, THESE DAMN SJWs!!!”. Who the hell cares. If the devs wanted to include a lesbian there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. If they wanted to make her hair blue, who cares.
If they wanna add non-white characters, who cares. Now diversity is bad because it has an agenda? Since when did agendas become bad? Professor X was based on Martin Luther King. Magneto was based on Malcolm X. There WAS an agenda. People these days make connections that don’t exist. They see a terrible game such as Mass Effect Andromeda, see the game’s agenda for a diverse cast and then for some reason their brains believe the two are inclusive when in reality MEA was just badly written regardless of an agenda. Imagine I were to develop a game and this game featured a female protagonist. I flesh out her character , I make her story compelling, people end up loving the game. Now what if all of a sudden, I said I wanted to make a strong female character, does that make the game bad? I HAD an agenda yet the game itself is still great. Imagine Kojima came out and said he wrote The Boss to be a strong woman and the anti-sjws lose their minds screaming “OMG KOJIMA YOU SJW WHY HAVE YOU BECOME A FEMINIST!!!!!”. Does that change regardless of his agenda, that The Boss is a good character?Of course not.
The point I’m trying to make is since when did agendas become bad. Yeah Life Is Strange may indeed have an agenda but is that REALLY a problem? The story is compelling, the characters are great etc. I’m starting to see more triggered anti-SJWs than SJWs. In fact, the whole term “SJW” has become pointless. Just as easily how SJWs scream “RACIST, SEXIST, MISOGYNIST” for no reason, the anti-SJWs scream “LIBTARD!!!, CUCK, SJW!!!!”
“and sees everything even remotely left leaning as being PC and filled with SJWs.”
Question would you consider left leaning things from the past to be left leaning today? No if anything they are “sexist” and “racist” becuase the left leaning has become left wing. Recently yet another male feminist who attacked Gamergate was found out to be a sexual herasser. She said that she didnt talk about it because his family was rich and they were both powerfull because they were on and i quote “marxist left wing” They say they are marxists not me.
This is the problem with the left nodways, that tis taken over by marxists who call themselves “progresives” This is why more and more people leave the left and go center, or even worse to the right like red pill black who is a black woman that her eyes were opened during gamergate.
What is considered “left leaning” nowdays is to the left or Bernie sanders. The funny thing is that people who have talked ot the other side like cassie jaye have seen that things are not what they appear to be. She was a feminist all her rilfe and after talking to the other side, she is no longer a feminist.
There is something seriously wrong with the intolarent left.
“If they wanna add non-white characters, who cares. Now diversity is bad because it has an agenda ?”
Yes, because agneda driven diversity is nothing more than tokenism.
” Professor X was based on Martin Luther King. Magneto was based on Malcolm X. ”
“. People these days make connections that don’t exist. ”
Ehmmm… you just did it.
“They see a terrible game such as Mass Effect Andromeda, see the game’s agenda for a diverse cast and then for some reason their brains believe the two are inclusive ”
Did you see who was in charge of thart game? A racist indian constantly attacking white people, the lead animator was an amateur who hardly ever did anything in their life, the entire studio was made by a bunch of sjws.
We have done ressearch in this game, you have not. You do not see the connections because you have not done any ressearch. So obviously to you there is no connection here. I do find it funny though that all the games that pander to sjws tend to fail. Lawbreakers included.
“Imagine I were to develop a game and this game featured a female protagonist. I flesh out her character , I make her story compelling, ”
How exactly would you do that though, because in recent times most of them resulted into a failre and ofcourse i would take the old tomb raider games over the new ones. There was this game in development, which is propably dead by now, that they were making a game similar to syphon filter with a female character. When asked about diversity they went on and on with feminist nonsense on how “i want women to know that they can do everything a man does in the miltary” (not true most of them sit in desks) Meanwhile in the past there wouldnt be any need to push any politics. Here is a female character she is strong fast, and good looking. Nowadays people are so insecure that they need to see a carbon image of themselves to feel like they are capable of doing something. I find that pathetic.
“great. Imagine Kojima came out and said he wrote The Boss to be a strong woman and the anti-sjws lose their minds screaming “OMG KOJIMA YOU SJW WHY HAVE YOU BECOME A FEMINIST!!!!!”. ”
Speaking of which sjws started saying that kojima is a sexist because of quiet and wouldnt stop on how sexualized she is. When asked about Raiden in mgs2 the response was “well i have not played that game”
OFCOURSE, which is why all the games that pander to them end up failing.
“The point I’m trying to make is since when did agendas become bad.”
Always. They were always bad. Keep politics out of gaming.
“The story is compelling, the characters are great etc.”
We seem to have a diffirent definition of what is a compellign story and characters. I bet you liked gone home too.
You can’t keep politics out of gaming. Politics have existed within forms of entertainiment since the beginning of time. You only have this stance because said politics in media today does not agree with your personal political views.
My point went completely over your head. The female protagonist point was just an example. What I meant was that a game can still be great regardless of an agenda. They are mutually exclusive. Obviously Bioware takes it a bit too far at times but the original ME trilogy are great and you could even say Bioware had an SJW agenda there. Does that affect the overall quality of the game? No it doesn’t.
The Professor X and Magneto comment was just to show how agendas have and always exist in entertainment mediums. Again, the point went over your head.
Either way this debate is pointless, you’ve clearly misunderstood my comment so I’ll summarize it in one nice easy to follow point.
– A political agenda and quality writing is mutually exclusive.
If it’s your opinion that the elements add up to ‘SJW garbage’, then, to you, it will be SJW garbage. Again, please understand that this is your opinion and not everyone is going to share it. To me, and this is the bit that is really going to blow your mind and amaze you, these elements do not add up to ‘SJW garbage, and therefore, to me, this isn’t’ SJW garbage’. Crazy world we live in, right?
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if you pirate you are a piece of s`1t get over it no excuses
Okay hang on I’m getting over it….
There.
I’m over it.
I’m not a pirate. I just don’t like Denuvo because its prevented me from playing games I’ve purchased before.
So what if I purchase the game, and then download the cracked version instead of the true version?
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Why? Does Denuvo cause trouble for you? All games that i have ever played that has had Denuvo like Neir etc has worked perfect for me
All games with Denuvo have lower FPS, longer loading times & boot times.
Nothing i have ever noticed that has impacted gameplay in any way for me.
I believe most people that hate on Denuvo are either pirates and salty they cant play day 1 bug-free game or their computer is too bad to handle the game so they blame Denuvo.
“I believe most people that hate on Denuvo are either pirates ”
All denuvo games have been cracked many on day 1.
“they cant play day 1 bug-free game ”
All games denuvo or not are bugged on the first week or two. Ellex for example got a day one patch and did not have denuvo, i watched pewdiepie play some south park and it was buggy. On ps4.
Arkham knight was soooo bug free on day one thanks to denuvo right?
Stop posting uninformed nonsense.
What are you even talking about? U are saying Arkham Knight was bugged because it had Denuvo? Such a retarded statement
No i am telling you that batman knight was buggy on day one regardless of using denuvo or not. But they didnt focus on the game, they focused on denuvo and the result was that the game did not sell well despite having denuvo.
Pirates got the game free. Paid customers got a buggy game.
So much for your “cant play day 1 bug free game” argument.
Arkham Knight ran badly because it was run by a team of 10 devs. Stop being irrational Dakan45.
that guy is the biggest pirate on this site and the most cancerous one on it
You are a gigantic troll acount and everyone knows, if you dont want cancer then leave the interent. Lolk kim kardashian, yet you call me cancer, her entire existance let alone her butt is cancer.
Why i am being irrational? The game was a mess on pc, what do you want me to say “oh it was ported by 10 people so thats ok”
Are you braindamaged or something? Yes i am dakan45, everyone knows this, whats your point moron?
Chill dude, it was a joke. And ya you are being irrational. No one’s excusing the game’s poor performance but you are blaming it on denuvo which makes no sense. Denuvo or not, the game would have run horribly due to only being developed by 10 devs.
“like Neir etc has worked perfect for me”
“like Neir”
“worked perfect”
“Neir”
Yes also Rime worked perfect with denuvo
FACEPALM
?? Are you saying Rime was buggy because of Denuvo? Where do you get that info? From pirates that couldn’t pirate the game so they blame Denuvo?
No from steam forums. Then they removed it and the game run well.
How can anyone be this clueless is beyond me.
he is a clueless pirate
You are at roll everyone knows that. Steam users must be pirates as well eh?
rime was patched is the same patch that removed denuvo you little cancerous little f$$k aka pirate
That’s incorrect. There was not a patch when Denuvo was removed from Rime. It was an update solely to remove Denuvo. DOOM, however, did get patched when Denuvo was removed. That game was already well optimized though, and it is doubtful that the removal of Denuvo was a factor in the performance boost post-patch. Denuvo doesn’t usually hurt performance, but if not implemented correctly, it definitely can.
It is proven though, the cracked version had better framerate while rime with denuvo run like crap.
” Denuvo doesn’t usually hurt performance, but if not implemented correctly, it definitely can.”
Based on what version? Because the technique that they use isnt the same as in all versions, the old verisons did not have as many triggers and did not affect perfomance as much.
My response was to correct what Kim Kardashian West said about the performance of Rime being improved not because Denuvo was removed, but because it was patched. An update removed Denuvo, but nothing was patched. Denuvo negatively impacted the performance on Rime. That is a fact.
And I do think there is at least a small performance hit on all Denuvo implemented games, but it can be limited to be a non-factor if implemented correctly. Those triggers don’t come at no cost, but the cost can be discernible much of the time.
I feel Denuvo effects performance most by the fact that the cost of implementing it can instead go to optimization.
Yes they removed denuvo and it worked fine, becuase the cracked version removed denuvo entirely so the people who bought it told them to remove it. If those people who were hating the drm were pirates, then why go to the steam forum page and tell devs to remove the game so they can buy it? They already got the game for free you pathetic troll.
“Meanwhile pirates enjoy a Denuvo free experience paying”
If baldman cracks it. The rest are emulating it. Not so sure about this new group that cracked the new southpark game.
Yes Denuvo is not in a very good state of protecting games at the moment but it has 0 impact on the game itself so whatever bloatware u are talking about does neither good nor bad. And yes as long as the platform u bought it on like Steam u will still be able to play your games 5-10 years from now.
“but it has 0 impact on the game itself ”
Baldman cracked Rime by removing denuvo triggers. The game was extremely stuttery before that. When it was cracked the devs removed denuvo and it run well.
I remember SecuROM and there’s no SecuROM games you can’t play today, StarForce on the other hand that doesn’t even work on Windows 10.
Go ahead and try to prove me wrong, as I have games with SecuROM among my library.
these are pirate they just need excuses to pirate
Most people who hate it are low key pirates. Or the ones who keep bringing up “I WON’T BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS ANYMORE IN 7-10 YEARS IN THE FUTURE”
How about removing this garbage from Automata?
how about patching automata and fixing perfomance?
why not both?
because coprperations cand be twice pro consumer. Either you patch it to keep making money, or you dont and you keep showering yourself with the money you got from the “suckers”
We wouldnt want to become cdprrojekt now, do we?
Are you retarded? When did I said that?
Thank you for mention me. Happy to help. Keep up the good works
Looks like another confused to add to the LGBTP category.
If you don’t like the game don’t play it, no need to spread lies and hate like a 5y old.
I belive you are all confusing facts and opinions. It’s not a lie that it’s your opinion that this game is SJW somesuch. It’s also not a lie when people say that your opinion is a bit, err ‘silly’.
Luckily in today’s world you people have the fantastic ability to not play the game if you don’t want! ZOMG AMAZING!!!!!
It’s still a great game imo. Yeah there’s a bit of PC aspects but you guys take the whole anti-PC thing WAY too seriously. I’m anti-PC but the anti-PC community are equally as bad as SJWs.
” I’m anti-PC but the anti-PC community are equally as bad as SJWs.”
…… you cant say “i am anti pc” BUT I MEASURED THE ANTI SJW COMMUNITY AND IT IS EQUALLY AS BAD.
The alt right is, but they mostly keep to themselves.
I think this is a side effect of people getting redpilled the last 3 years. Also politicized games. When the fad ends, things will improve.
He never said that. You go back inside and play games from the past.
” I usually don’t see anti-SJWs sexually harassing women ”
Push it, keep pushing it, they F ckd up so bad and we are told to ignore it. Nope, push it harder show everyone what the sjw community is, make them look like lunatics that they are.
Guess we just different views of what PC means then. If I were to describe the whole “SJW/Anti-SJW” fiasco, it’s just a case of one group of people reacting then another group reacting to initial group and then initial group reacts and so on. There’s also a difference between someone who’s left leaning and someone who’s far left. If you are right leaning or left leaning, it’s fine. It’s the far left/far right that’s the prob. The PC/Anti-PC thing is another issue entirely. I’d get into it more but I’m really busy right now.
Agreed. I was reading an article of the almost complete failure of Denuvo over on Ars Technica and when I think that it had people worried at one time that it wouldn’t be easy to crack and now it gets cracked quickly in a day sometimes, it’s just unthinkable that some Publishers can’t admit that DRM like Denuvo is a failure and really it just aggravates their customers that they have to keep it in their game even after it gets cracked. That’s the silliest part.
Some Publishers are just brainwashed that DRM like Denuvo is a good idea and they can’t see what is obvious to PC gamers.
Honestly, this has nothing to do with SJWs. If you mean “Liberal”, then yeah, but SJWs force their opinions on others… But nobody is forcing you to play this game. You’re entitled to your opinion by thinking that it is “garbage”, but I truth be told I enjoyed the first game. The only “garbage” that I found is Denuvo.
I think you’ve gotten Antifa and SJWs confused. Yes, there are a lot in the same camp, but they are not the same.
No it does not, since SecuROM resets the counter and there are tools to reset the counter from SecuROM itself if need it.
And like I said, SecuROM works just fine in Windows 10.
I’m not talking of any third-party software, nice try though.