There ought to be a law...
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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That's why the first thing I do when I buy a new game is to turn off the internet and boot the game. If it doesn't boot or work offline, I refund it. And I just don't buy games that have Denuvo.
...Dead games, which means no one on Earth can currently play the game. It's not possible...
...At-risk games, which means these games are currently working, but they're designed in such a way that the second the publisher ends support, they will become dead games without some sort of intervention...
...Dev Preserved, which means the game would have died, but the publisher or developer implemented some sort of endof life plan, so now the game is safe...
...Fan Preserved, where the publisher did nothing or practically nothing to save the game, but fans managed to either hack it to remove dependencies or reverse engineer a server emulator so that the game was saved in spite of the publisher actions.
Out of curiosity what are the 16 dev preserved ones?
If your game requires a server for single player content, I ain't buying it.
I'm not paying full price and getting a rental.
It shouldn't require a server that I can't control for multiplayer either.
V rising kind of does this but a single player game is just called a server it's on your local machine though.
And I kind of hate that
Only exception to this is if I can run the server myself. Even multiplayer games I feel somewhat cautious about now.
Me building mega castles on my one man modded Rust server.
This is why it is so important to find exploits for current gen consoles. It is not about piracy, it is about preservation. You don't own a game that requires the internet, or a fucking download code Nintendo.
It is not about piracy, it is about preservation.
Nice. Did you make this?
Slapped it together real fast, yup.
First original content on lemmy
Nice.
A PS3 with Evilnat custom firmware is truly a thing of beauty. A great era for videogame creativity and experimentation, when F2P was just a twinkle in Tim Sweeney's eye.
I’m still upset about Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy & The Polar Night Liberator
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