• @doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works
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    124 minutes ago

    All you have to do to get my money is let me be a pirate, a jedi, a ninja, or a samurai. My inner child can’t help themselves.

    So how can Ubisoft be so terrible that I have literally not wanted to play their Pirate game, their StarWars game, and now their Ninja/Samurai game!?

  • NONE
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    142 hours ago

    Can’t they just… Make a “normal game”? One that you install, play and that’s it?. Why the fuck do they need to monitor Ram? What the hell?

    • Keegen
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      335 hours ago

      Companies realized they can sell cheats as microtransactions instead and people will pay for them. They will likely also include some cosmetic microtransactions like their previous game, which they definitely don’t want people just cheating in. It’s why so many single player games require being always online as well.

      • m-p{3}
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        74 hours ago

        Especially stuff already shipped in the game code!

  • @OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Imagine if they took all that ‘piracy prevention’ effort (that doesn’t really work in the end anyway) and put it towards actually making enjoyable games.

    • Altima NEO
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      55 hours ago

      It’s certainly working because I’m not gonna bother playing the game

    • @s_s@lemm.ee
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      66 hours ago

      These things don’t cost effort, they just buy a library and pump up the cost of the game and make the fucking publishers feel better about themselves.

  • @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    9810 hours ago

    I already wasn’t going to pay for another Ubisoft game ever again but this is absolutely the final nail in the coffin for me. Fucking atrocious.

    • ditty
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      143 hours ago

      Shadows’ EULA also includes a provision that allows the game to monitor your PC’s RAM to ensure you’re not running any unauthorized programs like macros, cheats, or hacks, a well-intentioned clause that nonetheless feels a touch out of place in a single-player game

      Why the fuck would I allow Ubisoft to monitor my RAM while playing a SINGLE-PLAYER GAME. They just want to datamine my PC or something?

  • @Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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    7710 hours ago

    Can we do something like reporting Denuvo or the kernel anticheats as malware in Windows defender?

    A game with a built in system lever logger that could theoretically monitor even your bank transactions should be reported as spyware/malware and users installing it should have to expressly acknowledge / authorise this.

    • @YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world
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      2510 hours ago

      Normally I would say that Microsoft wouldn’t care and they would just make an exception, but after the CrowdStrike error, they might be just a little bit more careful. Or maybe I have too much faith in them

  • @Jumi@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Man, and I was still looking a bit forward to this game. Why can’t you just be normal, Ubisoft?

  • @TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    4410 hours ago

    Thankfully there is a very simple, no-effort solution to this: Don’t play their trash.

    I already don’t play their excruciatingly mediocre games and this just reinforces my avoidance is justified.

    Also good gods they’ve been milking this tired franchise for almost 2 decades now.

    • L3ft_F13ld!
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      1510 hours ago

      Pirating also allows you to play it without the BS if you’re interested in the game.

      • @accideath@lemmy.world
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        49 hours ago

        Thanks to denuvo and there currently not being any active group capable of cracking denuvo, it’s not a guarantee the game will be cracked. Assassin‘s creed mirage took until last month, over a year after release, for a pirated copy to be available and it uses a debug executable, which may not become available for any other games or at least not in a timely manner. It might not be possible to play those games without the BS. Or on Linux, if it doesn’t run without kernel access for RAM monitoring

        • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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          23 hours ago

          Denuvo works on a subscription basis. Sooner or later, they’re going to decide it’s not worth paying for anymore and the game will be available to pirate. Waiting a year is nothing.

          • @Grimy@lemmy.world
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            25 hours ago

            From what I understand, she received flak for her anti trans views and decided to call it quits. She is Russian, so maybe she was drafted into the war effort as a hacker, or mosy likely she got paid off by these companies.

            Most crackers are in countries where extradition for this would be difficult even with solid evidence. Companies have changed tactic to just paying them off so they just don’t do it, or so the rumor mill says. 200k a year to a handful of people is a drop in the bucket for the denuvo cartel.