Can’t they just… Make a “normal game”? One that you install, play and that’s it?. Why the fuck do they need to monitor Ram? What the hell?
Not the version I download
They afraid of me cheating in a singleplayer game? Not that I’m ever going to play it in the first place.
Companies realized they can sell cheats as microtransactions instead and people will pay for them. They will likely also include some cosmetic microtransactions like their previous game, which they definitely don’t want people just cheating in. It’s why so many single player games require being always online as well.
Can’t have you accessing skins and items they plan to sell!
Especially stuff already shipped in the game code!
That’s okay, I was done buying Assassins Creed games anyway.
Their trash games ain’t even worth to pirate anymore
The ultimate piracy protection
Imagine if they took all that ‘piracy prevention’ effort (that doesn’t really work in the end anyway) and put it towards actually making enjoyable games.
It’s certainly working because I’m not gonna bother playing the game
Right, and if I do I won’t be buying it.
These things don’t cost effort, they just buy a library and pump up the cost of the game and make the fucking publishers feel better about themselves.
Ubisoft can monitor nothing but my balls.
Make sure they are unwashed while being monitored
A shit monitoring balls?
“If you betray us, Ubisoft, I’m going to cut off your balls and shove them up your ass so the next time you take a shit, you shit all over your balls!”
Oh look another ubisuck game I won’t buy
seconded
Man, and I was still looking a bit forward to this game. Why can’t you just be normal, Ubisoft?
I already wasn’t going to pay for another Ubisoft game ever again but this is absolutely the final nail in the coffin for me. Fucking atrocious.
Shadows’ EULA also includes a provision that allows the game to monitor your PC’s RAM to ensure you’re not running any unauthorized programs like macros, cheats, or hacks, a well-intentioned clause that nonetheless feels a touch out of place in a single-player game
Why the fuck would I allow Ubisoft to monitor my RAM while playing a SINGLE-PLAYER GAME. They just want to datamine my PC or something?
Can we do something like reporting Denuvo or the kernel anticheats as malware in Windows defender?
A game with a built in system lever logger that could theoretically monitor even your bank transactions should be reported as spyware/malware and users installing it should have to expressly acknowledge / authorise this.
Normally I would say that Microsoft wouldn’t care and they would just make an exception, but after the CrowdStrike error, they might be just a little bit more careful. Or maybe I have too much faith in them
Thankfully there is a very simple, no-effort solution to this: Don’t play their trash.
I already don’t play their excruciatingly mediocre games and this just reinforces my avoidance is justified.
Also good gods they’ve been milking this tired franchise for almost 2 decades now.
Pirating also allows you to play it without the BS if you’re interested in the game.
Thanks to denuvo and there currently not being any active group capable of cracking denuvo, it’s not a guarantee the game will be cracked. Assassin‘s creed mirage took until last month, over a year after release, for a pirated copy to be available and it uses a debug executable, which may not become available for any other games or at least not in a timely manner. It might not be possible to play those games without the BS. Or on Linux, if it doesn’t run without kernel access for RAM monitoring
Denuvo works on a subscription basis. Sooner or later, they’re going to decide it’s not worth paying for anymore and the game will be available to pirate. Waiting a year is nothing.
What happened to Empress or whatever they were called?
From what I understand, she received flak for her anti trans views and decided to call it quits. She is Russian, so maybe she was drafted into the war effort as a hacker, or mosy likely she got paid off by these companies.
Most crackers are in countries where extradition for this would be difficult even with solid evidence. Companies have changed tactic to just paying them off so they just don’t do it, or so the rumor mill says. 200k a year to a handful of people is a drop in the bucket for the denuvo cartel.
I haven’t paid close attention but I think she started a cult or something.
On hiatus, apparently. Hasn’t cracked anything since July 2023. Not sure why.
Eyyyyyyy fuck you Ubisoft.
Makes no difference to me, since I wasn’t interested in playing it anyway
And they wonder why they are flopping.
