Denuvo for Mass Effect: Andromeda

They probably will for Denuvo still has one of the best records for preventing piracy, Doom had an activation bypass and was used to bypass several other games until Denuvo patched the flaw. The only game that I know of that has been 100% hacked is Tomb Raider for they were only able to break a single version of Denuvo and I bet they have gone back and created new versions.

Edit:

Just to clarify my response a bit since I went back and read a couple of articles.  Doom wasn't broken they were able to use an activation bypass to stop the check which has been common. Right now as far as I can find Denuvo has been fully broken on two games Rise of the Tomb Raider and Inside, they have been able to bypass it on other games like they have been for years. The other thing about Denuvo is that publishers I don't think expect it to work forever since it is a static piece of software, but to prevent piracy for a couple of months during peak sales after launch.  It is interesting to see if they have been able to use what they learned from Rise of the Tomb Raider and Inside to make further breaks, but I think it would have made news if they had been able to break and not bypass it for other games since then.

The game is gonna be pirated anyways, is just matter of time. And how costly is Denuvo? I bet is not particularly cheap. Instead of wasting heaps of money on a DRM that gets bypassed sooner or later, they could use the money to make a better game and in the process not fuck over the people who actually bought the game. DRM nowadays is more a nuisance to the buyer than it is to the pirate, and the buyer pays for it... Gee.

yes, Andromeda will have Denuvo, as DA:I has, if it gets cracked a month a year or more, it doesn't matter, it will not be cracked at launch that's for sure

i don't like denuvo, for it affects performance negatively, and it's very intrussive,

I don't think anyone but the publishers like Denuvo.

Overall, it is at least a bit of a step forward - it's part of the game's main exe file, so if you uninstall the games, Denuvo is also gone from your machine.

I had the disk version of ME1, which came with a nasty rootkit-like variant of Securom that remained installed on your system and checked *every* exe file you tried to run, not just Mass Effect 1. I remember getting totally unrelated crashes with other programs after installing ME1, and it took me days to figure out that I needed to update the Securom drivers.

Dragon Age Origins came with a lame EA authentication service that installed itself on your system.

And then there was StarForce, which also embedded itself into your system and nuked every optical drive emulator it found, no matter what you used them for.

Fun times back then.

Steam did or does that with the Valve Anti-Cheat. Denuvo doesnt " The Chinese warez group 3DM claimed to have defeated Denuvo Anti-Tamper on 1 December 2014.The group claimed that the technology involves a "64-bit encryption machine" that requires cryptographic keys unique to the specific hardware of each installed system"


The DRM that is intrusive is Origin, Steam and UPlay. You have to launch them first to play your own game and if on steam you go offline for more than 30 days you can't launch your game in Offline mode.

It makes me laugh the way PC users complain they always get shitty ports and wonder why. This is why. Console piracy is much less frequent than PC games. You're only hurting yourselves. Batman Arkham Knight was a classic example of why developers spend the bare minimum on PC development.

Ah well, there's always Star Citizen haha!

Denuvo isn't secuROM. It's been years, bring in solid proof or stfu about the dangers of it.

The only downside for end users i have read was high HDD/SSD disk read/write problems, but this argument is now 2 years old and i havent heard from newer releases that they cause problems. i believe the main discussion about this copy protection is happening over at the dishonored 2 forums. people blame denuvo, but its just a very badly optimized engine (ID-Engine).

i didnt notice people crying in forums about any problems with the EA games so i dont care whether they use denuvo.

Also @ OP: Like in this thread said, there was only 1 game cracked sucessfully, other games  have 1 FPS and the hacker scene already said that cracking denuvo games without luck or bypassing stuff can take up to years because the copy protection "infests" itself in many game files and there is no way to create a general template for cracking because every game has different files.

now that games get copy protections removed there should be people comparing whether denuvo had any kind of impact on performance, the only thing i can imagine is that it lengthens loading times.

also this is not a console war thread, there are reasons why people enjoy pc and people that enjoy consoles.

I know, with DAI they promised us the stars and we got wonky camera, and an action mode, where i battled the controll system rather than the enemies, and in the other the camera. Why didn't they just copy DA1 and 2 controlls, there was nothing wrong with them, but noo.

The best protection against piracy is to make a game so good people want to buy it.

That is a falsehood there might be people that feel that way, but people are still going to pirate for other reasons.  Such as "Screw BioWare Mass Effect 3 killed my childhood" or "AAA games are not worth $80" another "I want to play it now, but I only way to pay a sale price" or "I want to demo the game for two months and then I will decide if I want to pay for it".