True though I can’t even begin to understand how marketing justifies its price when a common “fact” that goes around is that the marketing step accounts for 50% of the total game’s budget. Like, how does it cost that much?

They backed out of supporting the Stop Killing Games initiative led by Ross Scott so I rather doubt it’s to support preservation at this point.

The problem is that it’s actually not as expensive to make a triple ehh game as people are led to believe. What’s expensive is overpaying all the greedy executives and their unearned bonuses. More people need to be aware of this.

Because there’s a lot of negativity towards Hasbro and everything they are associated with given recent years. It’s a miracle BG3 came out good at all, let alone as good as it is with them involved.

Once. By accident. Just grabbed a pair off a shelf that were labeled with my size and that was it. Hated them. So impractical.

Built-in deniability.

If the new heads are crap, it doesn’t make a difference whether it’s sold or not.

True, NM has been getting stricter on mods and criticism for some time now. Makes me wonder how much worse it could get.

The big question is whether this is for the better or worse.

This feels like the sort of fix that should have been figured out prior to release given just how wide spread it is.

That’s fair. Thinking about it, I’m not sure if I’ve ever bought a game after the Denuvo got removed, I’d just stopped caring about the game by the time that happened so it’ll remain to be seen if I still care about Stellar Blade by the time the Denuvo is removed this time, but it certainly won’t be at full price like I’d planned to pay when the PC port got announced. It’ll likely be with the standard 60-70% reduction that happens once a game has been out 1-2 years, depending how long it takes for this crap to fuck off. At that point, I don’t think it’s rewarding the dev anyway, my purchase certainly isn’t making it onto a spreadsheet of consequence.

And it’ll be staying right there for as long as its carrying that infection.

*Relative to what we’re seeing out of the Triple Ehh space.

Sadly, the game will be infected with Denuvo at launch. I was looking forward to it until that stupidity got announced.

And often acts like a bunch of 3-year-olds.

Check your local council estate.

RocketWerkz is an indie dev with, from what I can find, 64 employees. I wouldn’t exactly call that corpo material.

What the heck are you smoking? Unity is the corpo here.

Never should have had it

In a twist of fate, “J’acuzzi!” is what French people yell when yeeting themselves into a jacuzzi.