this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
848 points (98.1% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

53948 readers
416 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-FiLiberapay


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.

[–] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

None of them do. It would fuck with people's ability to make mods for them.

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

True. I guess I thought that because "ghost wire Tokyo" and "redfall" do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not

[–] Rayspekt@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

redfall

Best copyright protection for Redfall is that the game is shit and nobody wants to play it.

[–] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Which sucks, because Arkane was one of my favorite developers before the quality of their output fell off over the past five years. I loved the Dishonored games, and Prey is the single best immersive sim ever made. I was looking forward to DeathLoop, but it ended up being kinda meh, and Redfall has been so universally panned that I haven't even bothered to try it.

[–] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah those games are only published by Bethesda, not developed. Their in house games never have DRM, unless you count steam.

[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Bethesda is a publisher as well which explains that

Those aren't BGS games. Bethesda that developes =/= bethesda that publishes. The latter likes DRM

Not necessairly (well, goodbye to Starfield Script Extender in that case). But I think it's more that Gamebryo can't integrate Denuvo lol

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bethesda Game Studios games don't have DRM like Denuvo. BGS and Bethesda Softworks are two different entities. ID, MachineGames and other Zenimax studios tend to have DRM, not BGS.

On the other hand, didn't Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched? So what would they even protect, 76?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] leftzero@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Didn't Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched?”

No, it came out a bit more than a year earlier.”

Ah. Well F4 didn't have it on launch

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Steam/windows store drm it seems.