Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
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Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#2They didn't "break" anything, someone screwed up and left the unprotected executable accessible.
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#3I don’t understand the relationship between the two companies, id and Bethesda. I see that they’re both owned by ZeniMax but nothing else. Is this just a temporary marriage of convenience?
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#4I don’t understand the relationship between the two companies, id and Bethesda. I see that they’re both owned by ZeniMax but nothing else. Is this just a temporary marriage of convenience?
While ZeniMax owns both companies, Bethesda is the publisher
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#5I don’t understand the relationship between the two companies, id and Bethesda. I see that they’re both owned by ZeniMax but nothing else. Is this just a temporary marriage of convenience?
> convenience
id: focus on game development that people enjoy playing
bethesda: do whatever bethesda does apart from trying to understand why people enjoy playing games.
My bet is that id guys just dont care much about being marketing monkeys.
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#6I don’t understand the relationship between the two companies, id and Bethesda. I see that they’re both owned by ZeniMax but nothing else. Is this just a temporary marriage of convenience?
There are two Bethesdas. Bethesda Game Studios is a developer and makes Oblivion and Skyrim and so forth. Bethesda Softworks is the publisher for the ZeniMax-owned development studios like BGS and id.
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#7This is going to cost them tens of millions of loss in sales.
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#8A similar thing happened with Rage 2. Soon after release, they removed the protection. Here's a hoping the same thing happens here.
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#9This is going to cost them tens of millions of loss in sales.
Not really. Doom has enough of a brand name that the average person probably isn't going to say, "Great, now that I know a DRM-free version exists, I will pirate it!"
More likely, someone like me would just say, "Sweet! Now if I buy the game, I can get at a version that won't slow down my performance with all of the obnoxious DRM crap running in the background!"
Re: Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
#10This is going to cost them tens of millions of loss in sales.
Not really. Doom has enough of a brand name that the average person probably isn't going to say, "Great, now that I know a DRM-free version exists, I will pirate it!" More likely, someone like me would just say, "Sweet! Now if I buy the game, I can get at a version that won't slow down my performance with all of the obnoxious DRM crap running in the background!"
This is part of why I quit PC gaming and took the plunge to Linux. It seems like every PC game recently requires a social login with its own launcher and a dedicated DRM rootkit. And the privacy policies for all of this stuff are very "permissive." After a certain point you realize you aren't in control of your own computer.
At least with consoles you _know_ going in that the manufacturer has every executable on lockdown. But I couldn't stomach _not knowing_ if some poorly coded DRM or RGB control service was opening up my private files to remote code execution[1].
[1]: https://twitter.com/gsuberland/status/1175570500292108289