Now here is a pleasant surprise. Yesterday, Square Enix removed the controversial Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Octopath Traveler 2.
    • kostel_thecreed@lemmy.caEnglish
      162·
      11 months ago

      I feel as if it is worth the price its currently at. I got 60 hours out of it, without even doing 100% of the acheivements.

      • _waffle_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Since you’ve played it, I do have a couple of questions.

        1). I haven’t played really any JRPGs before so is this game friendly to newcomers or not really? It looks really beautiful and that caught my eye when I first saw it

        2). Do I need to play the previous one to understand what’s going on?

  • Asterix78@lemmy.worldEnglish
    144·
    11 months ago

    It is always the same game comes out runs like short after a month drm gone game runs fine …

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.mlEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      Its because the launch of the game is when a game, especially a niche genre gets sales. Since denuvo has a recurring cost to using it, how early its removed is dependant on sales.

      • atlasraven31English
        141·
        11 months ago

        So it’s more of a “publisher cutting costs” thing than sheer benevolence.

    • Lemmitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      I’m pretty sure Denuvo games have always worked on steamdeck. I think you just need to launch them one time while you’re connected to the internet.

      • sudotstar@kbin.social
        10·
        11 months ago

        Yup, while Denuvo DRM is still an issue for many other reasons, it has been generally very Linux and Wine-friendly, especially in comparison to other popular DRM/anticheat solutions in place that explicitly block LInux users by-design, or at best change their implementation so often that it’s a cat-and-mouse game keeping Wine and other layers up to date to support it.