Crosmando: I bet the trolling on /v/ has already started
"D-D-Denuvo w..will never be cracked!" they said
/v/ had already broken the story slightly before I posted it here, actually. Not that it matters that much, considering /v/'s huge disdain for anything Bioware, and especially "Cisquisition."
LiquidOxygen80: Link here! According to this article, Denuvo has been cracked.
The real interesting aspect is the fact that all the games that used it did NOT experience more sales than expected, which lends credence to the fact that DRM will not make people more likely to buy your games.
The games which used it: FIFA 15, Lords of the Fallen and DA: Inquisition.
FIFA 15 experienced averages sales based on what 14 did.
Lords of the Fallen was not a top seller.
DA: Inquisition sold at expectations, but was still not a top seller on any platform.
Thoughts?
apehater: this example is interesting, but i dont think it applies in general. i take diablo 3 as a counterexample. its sad, but you can rise sales through drm and blizzard knows how. just to clarify, i dont have a battlenet account & hate blizzard, this was no hidden advertisement attempt.
Initially, it WOULD create a good counterexample, if it wasn't for the massive player dropoff afterwards. The numbers for it were great, but what ended up happening is that D3 wasn't a good enough game to keep people engaged past the bad mechanics, auction houses, etc, etc, etc. There still was a backlash, but I think it was people who simply wanted a new Diablo game, despite the pain in the ass. Once it became apparent that the game had issues on top of always online, that's when people started leaving.