• Damionsipher@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I can pirate very easily too - probably saved me about $3k in game costs alone while still having a way larger legit library than 99% of Consol owners

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      9 months ago

      I’ve had three gaming PCs and spent maybe $10K in computer parts in the last fifteen years. I know I’ve definitely saved more than that versus having a console.

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        9 months ago

        If you got every major console of one manufacturer during those 15 years you’d have like 3 consoles. That’s less than 2k

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            9 months ago

            They only talked about “computer parts”. In any case, I highly doubt most ppl would spend 8k on console games.

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              9 months ago

              8k over 15 years comes out to about 9 games per year. Not that doubtful at all. In any case, the point is piracy gets you more games for less money.

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          9 months ago

          Well, normally I wouldn’t have to wait to pirate something. So I think the current situation is pretty bad

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        9 months ago

        why is denuvo hard to remove tho?
        yeah, there are a lot of traps embeeded in obfuscated code (a total mess and really hard to reverse engineer)
        … but in the end it still has to interface with some service to check for license ownership or obtain some sort of token for decryption, why not hook that or find a way to reuse tokens across multiple machines?