You all absolutely adore Denuvo right? Well it's about to expand to offer game developers more options to add into their games so here's what's coming.
Announced during Gamescom is an expansion of their Anti-Tamper tooling with Integrity Verification. They say it will bring "more granular options to the Anti-Tamper product" letting developers verify the integrity of their own code, which is supposed to protect it against static and dynamic tampering preventing people from altering protected game code before startup and during gameplay.
“We understand the paramount importance of code security in the gaming industry,” said Doug Lowther, Chief Executive Officer at Irdeto, “Our Integrity Verification feature offers an effortless and robust defense, empowering our customers with a powerful tool to protect their valuable code and maintain the integrity of their gaming experiences.”
As for the Unreal Engine Protection, this new feature is a "first-of-its-kind solution is easy to integrate into the game on a binary level, effectively thwarting data mining attempts and creating formidable barriers against cheat creators, pirates and fraudsters" according to Denuvo developer Irdeto.
“With the Unreal Engine Protection, we are creating new weapons for the gaming industry’s fight against hackers trying to do things with games that are not supposed to be done,” said Lowther, “Our commitment to staying ahead of the curve in gaming security is exemplified by this first-to-market solution, enabling game developers and publishers to protect their creations with unparalleled ease.”
Full press release here.
Thankfully, so far, Denuvo hasn't actually caused all that many issues for Linux desktop and Steam Deck gamers, since games protected by it work in Proton. When I spoke to Irdeto back in early 2021 they mentioned their anti-cheat would work on Linux too but it would tell developers as running at lower integrity but still that the "userspace game process performs significant cheat detection". Since then we've not had any updates on that.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: ssj17vegetaThere should be laws that send developers who use DRM directly to jail.
Oh, and f*ck copyright.
Unfortunately, devs are most of the time not responsible for any decision (in big project with a few dozen of them + animators + level designers + music department and more).
I know some really good devs working for big studios and trust me they are also fed up by technically stupid decisions, feature change in the middle of the project (the famous "It is just a button to add" but it impacts the whole engine and save system that overload CPU, RAM and hard drive ^^) with crunch time for deadline almost impossible to meet even if it was known for months that it was not possible.
Every bad thing you can think about in software engineering is the same in gaming industry with millions of dollars above your head that are invested with an uncertain RoI.
Last edited by Bogomips on 23 August 2023 at 4:29 pm UTC
redneckdrow Aug 23, 2023
Quoting: StoneColdSpiderQuoteYou all absolutely adore Denuvo right?If I was to tell you what I really thought about Denuvo it would be nothing but *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*ing *BEEP*s.......
My own tirade would be something like the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Probably the version of the translation that gets creative in its means to avoid swearing.
ElectricPrism Aug 23, 2023
Hey, they don't want my $59.99 -- that's their loss.
QuoteThankfully, so far, Denuvo hasn't actually caused all that many issues for Linux desktop and Steam Deck gamers, since games protected by it work in Proton.
In the interest of negotiation and fairness I usually am willing to walk back my standards some. But not this time. I'm tired of "buying" things and "not owning them" and I'm tired of being a lawful customer only to get punished with DRM by hostile companies.
If they want to Play the DRM Game out of paranoia -- that's fine -- I will simply spend my money other places.
And that's why I've been buying gift copies of Baldur's Gate 3 -- we simply can't let this hellscape become the new normal. We deserve better than this. A good game will last decades. A bad game is sophistry and bad forever.
Quoting: nenoroDenuvo kills performance
Unreal Engine is good for visual but bad for gaming because it's not made for gaming never was.
Denuvo with Unreal Engine support
And then kids this is why people keep pirating big games to prevent from killing performance
It's not about performance. Digital Restriction Management is a tool to restrict the users rights and take away use cases from them. What it doesn't do is decrease the number of illegal copies. But businesses like to control their customers.
TheRiddick Aug 25, 2023
Quoting: PixelDropDenuvo kills interest. I was hyped for the Megaman battle network remake, until I learned it had Denuvo... Seriously an offline portable game I planned to stick on a steam deck that gets internet like 2-3 times a year... recipe for disaster. Better off just boycotting the remake and playing emulated copies of my old games.What I find strange is that the upcoming Mega Man X DiVE Offline (an offline version of a soon-to-end mobile game, with the microtransactions removed) looks like it won't have Denuvo, and that's a much more modern title than the decades-old Game Boy Advance titles in the MegaMan Battle Network Legacy Collection. I don't get what Capcom's playing at.
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