Denuvo’s quest to improve its reputation with PC gamers is personal.
The upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard will somewhat surprisingly not use Denuvo at all
There’s the tell. Publishers might start listening to their customers, who generate income, rather than their vendors’ sales personnel, who create expenses. He’s panicked over a potential existential crisis.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Oh look, Denuvo playing the victim.
And it exemplifies rather well why I hate the word “toxic”: bad reputation? Toxic! Criticism? Toxic!
Bullshitting like «it’s in part because it “simply works” and would-be pirates are trying to make it unattractive to game publishers by disparaging it.»? Noooo that is not toxic because it aligns with the discourse that Denuvo wants to spread, right?
"Insert personal story to make it look like you aren’t criticising software; no, you’re criticising a family. You monster~
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I mean it can be abused just like any other adjective…
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Most people that i know that use the word toxic, are the things that they mean when they say toxic.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You can be a great person and still write garbage software. Whether you’re just doing it because you need money or whether you’re misguided and think it’s actually good, that doesn’t necessarily make you a bad person (and remember: It’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it).
Doesn’t make the software less garbage.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
A person is good or bad depending on their impact on the people around them; as such I don’t consider “misguided” a valid defence.
And while someone can be overall a good person while writing socially harmful and user-hostile software, because they have other qualities that compensate it, writing said software still makes them a worse person.
So it’s hard to be good when your salary depends on you being bad.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m analysing this through my moral views, but I don’t think that they’re the only valid ones. Your mileage may vary.
My other comment was mostly on how idiotic the whole defence is, not about morality (as this one).
Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
When a plant or an animal is toxic, very often it’s a defense mechanism.