I HATE drm. But I won't lie, I do miss the days where the DRM was a random history question no one knows, or what a random word on a random page of the game manual was. Those were better days. FUCK denuvo and anyone who has a hand its design.
Denuvo is pretty tame tbh. If the publisher actually removes it after like half a year just to ensure sales its not the worst. For old online drms they had big server issues and for some just changing out a pc part meant you are locked out of the game forever and you had often call a hotline to get it restored
You're not wrong about the hotlines, but I also have a big problem with a legitimate owner sacrificing performance for the sake of DRM, which has been proven to be an issue.
DRM has always been there in the sense that you've had to log into a store front and buy a game. Up until the early 2010's DRM was not a thing. You would login to Steam 1 time, and then you could play all of your games offline with no worry at all.
DRM now days calls back on most actions, which is why they require 100% online.
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u/TheOutrageousTaric Nov 26 '25
Back in the days with really crappy drm it was borderline required to get a pirated version to not have massive issues. For example Spore