People are voting with their wallets.
They were willing to buy it. But this effects them and made the game no longer worth it. Pirates will pirate regardless. But you just lost some of the genuine customers by effecting them, pirates will have a "better" version.
I can’t wait for the day when Denuvo ends up scaring away more legitimate customers than it actually helps to sell the game. It seems like we are slowly getting there :')
I can't wait until some major vulnarability in Denuvo pops up and either gets widely exploited or AV programs start to warn against it due to security risks
There was a recent report, it only helps during the first few months of sales according to a very flimsy study that was done.
It suggests that it only saves a mean of 15% total revenue during the first 12 weeks.
Though remember, these figures are all just theoretical projections of sales. Basically just "well we believe we should have made this much revenue. So if we don't make it, it means we lost potential revenue, not that we simply didn't make as much as we thought we would."
I seriously considered preordering, seeing how much I enjoyed the first installment. Fortunately Denuvo prevented me from doing so. I'll wait until that piece of trash is patched out, it'll probably be cheaper by that time as well. Thanks Denuvo!
And it's not like a single player game gets worse over time. The player count is totally irrelevant and if 2 years from launch nobody is playing it it doesn't affect your experience at all.
This is a loss for Warhorse and a win for anyone that doesn't need to play it now.
Oh no, they're putting denuvo on it? Man I loved the first game. I don't think they even had anything close to a problem with piracy because it was a huge hit. Like, it not only did amazing for Warhorse Studios, but it made a huge tourism jump for the region.
That's a bummer, and as much as I want to support KC:D II, I can't support denuvo.
It might be a lessor experience but I've found its easier for some games that require a third party launcher or this shit, instead playing them on console.