Denuvo = 🤮
Calling all their critics salty pirates is one surefire way to pit people against you real quick - especially when you’re already pretty reviled by the gaming community
I’m not sure where this logic is going. “Don’t hate me for hating you or I’ll hate you more”?
When did he even say everyone who hates Denuvo is a pirate? I missed that part. Any statement that claims X said “All YYY are ZZZ” seems very suspect to me, since people just don’t talk like that.
“ALL gamers are WOMEN-HATERS.” When you actually see it, you realize how alarmingly out of place it is.
RPS: Why do you think Denuvo has garnered such a poor reputation?
Andreas Ullmann: I think two main reasons. First, our solution simply works. Pirates cannot play games which are using our solution over quite long time periods, usually until the publisher decides to patch out our solution. So there is a huge community, a lot of people on this planet who are not able to play their favorite video games, because they are not willing to pay for them, and therefore they have a lot of time to spend in communities and share their view and try to blame Denuvo for a lot of things - trying to make the gaming publishers to not use our solutions so they can start playing pirate copies of games for free again.
Yeah, people don’t talk like what you said, but they do make implications, like he did exactly here. He isn’t directly stating all their critics are just salty pirates, but he sure as shit is implying it.
He goes on to say about the plight of gamers, but stating this first and foremost makes it very clear what he thinks.
Logic-wise, this whole article is about their “attempt” to reconcile with the gaming community - so while I also don’t get the logic behind burning the bridge while claiming to be trying to fix it, that is what they’re doing.
Sorry, no, do not see any implication.
The interviewer asked him to give an explanation for why people hate Denuvo. The reasons are varied, so no matter what he says, that answer is not going to represent every single gamer. Instead, he comes up with one major explanation for the source of Denuvo hatred, and it makes sense. He even points out, as you quoted that “they have a lot of time to spend in communities and share their view and try to blame Denuvo for a lot of things”. As a result, once there’s even circumstantial evidence that - for instance - the tech hurts performance or causes games to crash, that ends up getting a lot of non-pirates on their side. So to bring up that specific case of how that message spread, it even seems to go against the implication “all Denuvo haters are pirates”.
Basically, two different parties are going into online discussions with their own relatively biased goals of changing opinions about Denuvo. As of this interview, Denuvo is one of those. No one is denying they have an agenda. He’s making the point that pirate groups are the other. Nowhere in that paragraph that I quoted did I see anything even implying “All gamers are X”, and honestly I’m tired of people making that leap in logic.
Lastly, what did you even mean about burning a bridge?
