Square Enix has removed Denuvo from Octopath Traveler 2

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/square-enix-has-removed-denuvo-from-octopath-traveler-2/

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FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 3y (6 replies)

That's nice, maybe I'll buy it on sale for $5 one day.

kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 3y (5 replies)

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.

BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 3y

Sure but they put Denuvo on it so they pay the asshole-tax.

_waffle_@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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?

kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It was also my first JRPG, and I would say it's pretty easy to grasp the concepts of it.

No, it's a separate story line.

_waffle_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Awesome. Appreciate the response!

FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

Fair enough.

Asterix78@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y (3 replies)

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

dudewitbow@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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.

atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

So it's more of a "publisher cutting costs" thing than sheer benevolence.

dudewitbow@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 3y

usually yes, its a publisher cutting the reccuring cost of using the DRM

thantik@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Wait, does this mean it'll run on the Steamdeck now?

Lemmitor@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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 pts · 3y

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.

nicman24@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

i might buy it then

CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Good. Fuck Denuvo anyway.

Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 3y

Yo Ho Fiddle Deedee!

djsaskdja@endlesstalk.org · -6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Publishers continue to reward people for pirating.

ZekeSulastin@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Nobody cracked the PC version until after the removal.

littlecolt@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yeah didn't the one person who knows how to crack denuvo lose their fucking mind recently? I recall reading something, can't remember what.

Nythos@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y

Empress lost her mind fucking ages ago