• JasonHears@feddit.nlEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    I love that pirate groups still use ascii text art in their release notes. It’s like a little piece of the world that hasn’t changed in 30 years.

  • oleorun@lemmy.fanEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I really felt cheated that no one was insulted, no rants were frothed, no theories conspiracied in this nfo. All we got was relevant information and kindness.

    I’m kidding obvs

  • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    To be fair it’s the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.

  • azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Awe as a dev this kind of bums me out a little. I wonder that they used for DRM. Those sales go directly to the devs in way of raises and retention.

    Granted this is not EA where i worked, but if you enjoy the game, i encourage you to buy it.

    Also NOTE: I DO NOT SUPPORT DRM, just the pay checks of the devs as i was one for quite some time.

    • ToxicWaste@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Totally agree on the paycheck. However we need to stop acting like piracy is bad only. Buy the things you really enjoy and support the creator(s).

      Back in the days a friend suggested i buy Skyrim and i was like: “Uuh not sure if i want to spend that kind of money on a 2yo game”. But since he was quite a fan, i pirated it. Soon after I bought the LE version and today it is still my most played game.

      NGL: i also pirated many things of which i never bought the original version. But because of the bay i also bought some things i most likely wouldn’t have without.

      • azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I don’t think piracy is bad lol i do think mega corporate publishers have bad practices for sure. Like cool, the one i worked for is publicly traded. Awesome. Every action is greed motivated. I hate that.

        Every time i loose hope in games i just play undertale and ignore the world. >.>

      • AtomicPurple@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yup.

        I was vaguely interested in Dark Souls for years, but every time I tried, I bounced right off it. I went through a cycle where every year or two, I would pirate one of the souls games, try it out, give up on it after an hour or so, and do it all over again the next time I was sufficiently compelled to give the series another shot. This happened until several years ago when I tried Dark Souls II, and for some reason it finally clicked. I played my pirated copy of Dark Souls II for about 10 hours, before a random crash corrupted my save file.

        After that happened, I immediately bought the game on Steam and proceeded to play it for the next month and a half, until I eventually beat it. I’ve since purchased every souls game plus Elden Ring on Steam, and recently imported a copy of Bloodborne GOTY edition after spending $700 on an exploitable PS5, just so I could play it at 60FPS. None of these legitimate purchases would have ever happened if I hadn’t been able to repeatedly pirate Dark Souls for about five years.

      • azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’ve thought about this. I think that happened was because of timelines, they released a super early build, fuckin producers.

        It’s not the worst thing for an early access game to be cracked, honestly. If the game is has more eyes, that’s great. I am curious about what is out now however.

        I am also curious about if the cracked version can be updated with content once the game goes live. Like i have no idea when that is or if it has already happened.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I would think that it’s cheap availability on GamePass and likelihood of frequent updates would make for a muted response to this one.

    Plus I don’t think it was protected to start with for modding purposes. People will be flying around in Thomas the Tank Engine by the end of next week.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      For these reasons, I’d rather buy Bethesda games. As a company, they aren’t assholes. I’d hate for them to get bought out by ea or something like all the rest.

        • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          01·
          10 months ago

          While you’re absolutely right to point out they have already been bought by Microsoft. I think we can all admit MS has had an unbelievably better track record with acquiring studios than EA.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield’s fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim’s opening

  • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

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

    • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      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?

      • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

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

        • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
          0·
          10 months ago

          It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren’t known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.

            • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
              0·
              10 months ago

              Unless I’m mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process’ memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.

              • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                0·
                10 months ago

                There are uncracked Denuvo games to this day that don’t have performance issues. Not everyone is incompetent in implementing it. That doesn’t mean I’m defending it (but Reddit/Lemmy will like to take any sort of non-attack as defense sooooo), I’m just saying that there are Denuvo games that don’t suffer performance issues.

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    Hol-eee shit. My GTX 1070 doesn’t meet minimum requirements…and it just won’t boot? Oh wow.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Still downloading for me, but I see more than one review saying it takes a long time to get good. I’m keeping my expectations low.

      EDIT: Glad I was warned it starts slow. It does get better if you stick with it.

      EDIT 2: It entertained me for a week. It’s no Skyrim, or even Fallout. I would have been pissed if I’d paid for it.

  • HiT3k@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    Anyone know if save game files from the cracked version (aka Steam version) can be transferred to the GamePass version?

    • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know why you’d want to rent the game if you’ve already got the cracked copy, but I would be surprised if the save files were any different between the two platforms.

      • HiT3k@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Because it’s a supported copy that I know is getting the latest patches and I’m already paying for it…? Also, as long as I can transfer save files, I could use them down the line on a sale copy on Steam for Steam Deck or whatever else.

      • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        There is no “play 5 days early”. The game launched on 1st of September. But those who can’t afford to shell out 100 Euros have to wait 5 more days. Microsoft did the same bullshit with Forza. I didn’t like it back then, I won’t like it now.