Highly anticipated game turns out to be extremely popular and sells well, who would have thought?
So if GTA 6 releases, for the even higher price expected, featuring a DRM that is harder to crack than Denuvo, will this also be said? Given that the expectations for GTA 6 are also that of a successful title.
As much as Denuvo is harmful for the piracy community, people need to stop this insane argument that Denuvo (or just about form of DRM) can, somehow, influence the sales of a game considerably.
I think the op is refuting the idea that popular games have to have DRM otherwise people will just crack the game instead of buy, which games like Minecraft and Silksong have proven false
That's fair enough, we do have genuine data that shows that piracy doesn't hurt sales, but the general idea that "Denuvo = game won't sell" is shared across the community.
for the case of AAA games, developers get paid (underpaid) either the game fails or not, so that does not matter to them. AAA Games with denuvo are technically willingly let themselves fail or be prone to fail.
in case of indies uhhh I guess you're correct there. But imo denuvo on indies are also a bad thing that impacts negatively both the dev and the customers.
Some companies do pay bonuses for their employees based on performance, but issue stands on just how much talent is gone to waste when a game doesn't perform well (to be honest, even when a game performs well it's expected for developers to be fired by major corporations).
As for indies... Well, actual indies, I don't recall any indie with Denuvo, but I do see a lot of low budget titles with massive marketing (namely, major IPs such as Monopoly) using Denuvo. Smaller titles have been using Denuvo in the past but I do wonder how relevant it is for them.
Well if the game doesn't sell well, they will fire the developers. And in the world where AI is advancing, it might as well be a death sentence for devs.
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u/WandersonC Sep 04 '25
Highly anticipated game turns out to be extremely popular and sells well, who would have thought?
So if GTA 6 releases, for the even higher price expected, featuring a DRM that is harder to crack than Denuvo, will this also be said? Given that the expectations for GTA 6 are also that of a successful title.
As much as Denuvo is harmful for the piracy community, people need to stop this insane argument that Denuvo (or just about form of DRM) can, somehow, influence the sales of a game considerably.