In all the instances I've seen, crackers do some fuckery that artificially feeds Denuvo the checks it's looking for in the executable. So the DRM is bypassed, but any actual Denuvo computational overhead is still there.
Symbiote is just about the worst possible name one could come up with for a DRM suite, maybe right above "pinworm."
Basically this. Its similar to how they are able to tell the game to not immediately connect to Steam (since almost all PC games require steam). Any crack from something like IGG-Games will always have "steam_api.dll" files in them but they don't really do anything. It's like a dummy file that pretends to be legit so the game can run properly instead of immediately crash into an error regarding steam missing.
I usually wait 2-3 years before playing a game anyway. I'm not paying money to jewish/niggers/corporate bean counters, to deal with their trickery and money robbery.
First time I realized Steam was even a thing was when Sonic Generations came out. Back then, I was still under the mindset that you could walk into GameStop (or even an FYE) and buy whatever PC game you wanted. Once I went on Sega's site and it said "buy on steam" I immediately thought two things...
Mine was the Civ V code in a box bullshit, so 2010. And then within 3 years or so PC physical was dead.
I didn't mind it when it was an installer for CS 1.6 and Half-life, I just thought it was their own version of Blizzard.net, no biggy as it's how their games talk to one another. Then, for no reason at all, all games need steam or some other horrifying software system. No biggy, console was still plug and play with physical while PC went to shit.
The people in the replies declaring this to be good edutainment make me sad.
Do you really see Sony publishing Hogwarts Legacy 2? With the kind of fanbase it currently has?
I probably should have mentioned this, but this isn't some random shovelware they're promoting like life of black tiger. This is an SIE developed, first party "game".
You wouldn't think of it from their goofy name and hyperfocus on MK but if you count their time as Midway Chicago, then Netherrealm is actually, possibly, the world's most storied game developer. Provided you count pinball of course, where they have a solid timeline dating back to, IIRC, the thirties. Not that Sony cares at all for that history or even that WB owns any of it (WB purchased the MK IP and then rehired the core of the team after 18 months of unemployment, I don't think they'd have bid a cent for that pinball history back in the early 2000s.)
They'll add Aloy and make her immune to getting fatality'd.
$3.6 billion. Very close to what disney paid for star wars and marvel, for destiny fucking two. Oh, and can't forget their valuable consulting advice, telling them that concord has the most promise out of their live service slate and to invest an additional $200 million into its development.
"transforming decades of complex climate science into an immersive, interactive story"
