‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game : games

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That probably explains all of the crashes reported by windows users too. ID Software what happened? You were supposed to be the chosen one.

load more comments (4 replies)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (28 children)

Gonna be honest, if Dark Ages represents the future of Doom: Doom died with Eternal. I've played probably 75% of the game and it's enough to turn me off of every future title.

Edit: Bizarre fucking takes in this thread. How many of you that liked DA played on controller?

Final edit: liking Dark Ages and disliking Eternal is like preferring lunchables to a NYC slice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Doom died with Ethernal. Dark Ages is just more of that decline.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What don't you like about it?

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (26 replies)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago

anti-consumer feature is anti-consumer. more news at 11

[+] [email protected] -59 points 4 days ago (13 children)

but the linux circlejerk swears game support is on par with windows!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

It's because of testing the game on different versions of Proton, which is treated as a hardware change. The fault lies entirely with Denuvo, and with anti-consumer DRM in general.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

It is, except for the ones that come with built in APTs.

load more comments (10 replies)

[–] [email protected] 120 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Refund and wait for a crack. Fuck Denuvo and fuck Bethesda for using them

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Well cool, now I know not to pick up the game yet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I get paid today and was gonna pick this up tonight... Guess it's back to Oblivion then!

load more comments (6 replies)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Looks like sailing is back on the menu, boys!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's not, newest Doom has Denuvo

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sailing is back on the menu once Empress decides, I guess? Is Empress still the only one cracking Denuvo, or has the Denuvo Cracking scene changed much in the last 5-10 years? I don't really keep up with it much.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

We'll get it, comrade.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is why native support still matters. Anything not supported can pull the rug out from under you at any time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Except for when glibc updates and breaks games with native support (but not the ones running through a compatibility layer). Although that definitely happens way less than devs purposefully pushing changes that break on Linux.

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 213 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Just another reason to wait long after release to buy a game. Denuvo charges games companies to administer the DRM infrastructure and most developers will strip it out of their games after it's been out for a while.

Buying games on launch is one of the most anti-customer experiences you can get. And that's saying something in our wonderful capitalist economy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

They also typically go on really good sales right around the time denuvo gets removed.

[–] [email protected] 157 points 4 days ago (12 children)

Buying a game post-launch:

Better prices; often on sale.
Fixed and patched up.
Extra content often included.
DRM often removed.

No brainer, imo.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago

You forgot a bonus point:

Hardware requirements are now easier/cheaper to meet/exceed.

load more comments (11 replies)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Pirating single player games is unfortunately the way to go, considering you BUY a single player game and STILL get fucked on it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Disagree, like yesman (lol) said it's best to wait. I'm not that worried about playing games day one but I still want to sort the Devs, after they've patched out the bugs and removed DRM preferably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm not either, I get them on sale later, just pointing out why would they screw over a paying customer with DRM bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

If only buying games actually supported devs anymore. Devs seem to get fired for any reason nowadays.

Bad game? Fired. Good game? Also fired. Popular game that people loved? Believe it or not, also fired. Develop a game only for the company to change direction and the game gets cancelled? Absolutely fired.

You'd think these publishers would value talent as much as their intellectual property but they seem to not care anymore for either.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Plenty of singleplayer games are from indies, those more or less support the developer.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure most pirates don't sit here and want a crack for a 10-20€ Indie Game. But a 80€ Game (sometimes even with additional microtransaktions like skins etc.) Yeah I see that.

Games

Weekly Threads:

Rules: