AI has evolved to know piracy is the answer.
DebatableRaccoon
If the new heads are crap, it doesn't make a difference whether it's sold or not.
True, NM has been getting stricter on mods and criticism for some time now. Makes me wonder how much worse it could get.
The big question is whether this is for the better or worse.
And taking that a step further, I believe it was Blackberry that was proliferating the free text messages thing at the time (so long as it was to another Blackberry) so that could even have led to not enough market room for third-parties like WhatsApp and Kik to dominate the way they did.
This feels like the sort of fix that should have been figured out prior to release given just how wide spread it is.
That's fair. Thinking about it, I'm not sure if I've ever bought a game after the Denuvo got removed, I'd just stopped caring about the game by the time that happened so it'll remain to be seen if I still care about Stellar Blade by the time the Denuvo is removed this time, but it certainly won't be at full price like I'd planned to pay when the PC port got announced. It'll likely be with the standard 60-70% reduction that happens once a game has been out 1-2 years, depending how long it takes for this crap to fuck off. At that point, I don't think it's rewarding the dev anyway, my purchase certainly isn't making it onto a spreadsheet of consequence.
And it'll be staying right there for as long as its carrying that infection.
*Relative to what we're seeing out of the Triple Ehh space.
Sadly, the game will be infected with Denuvo at launch. I was looking forward to it until that stupidity got announced.
And often acts like a bunch of 3-year-olds.
Built-in deniability.