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Talk about having essentially forgotten about it. I bet!

I suppose they only did it now due to some license agreement expiring?

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[–] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 112 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sorry we cannot afford to pay the DRM licensing fee. As a result we will no longer be able to inconvenience our customers or prevent people who were never going to pay for our game anyway from playing.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 54 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's twice as funny in this game because they added Denuvo a year after release. Meaning all pirates got the game DRM free on day one while paying customers got Denuvo patched in.

Absolute waste of money.

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think they did the same thing with anno 1800, only difference is they haven't cracked it yet so no dlc on the pirated version.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stuff like this makes me wish I was smart enough to be one of those DRM crackers.

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Same cause the only one who really knows how to do it with Denuvo is kinda bonkers in the brain zone

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

Enshitification of DRM moving to subscription based ended up being the most pro consumer move in the long run.