Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking - eviltoast

To top it all off, 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 and could potentially scare off some of the more suspicious players who aren’t comfortable with their hardware being monitored.

For a single player game by the way

  • shani66@ani.social
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    23 days ago

    What the actual fuck? Is this game some kinda developer revolt? Are they trying to sink the studio?

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    24 days ago

    Weren’t they supposed to be in damage control mode after the broken Torii gate incident? Why are they trying to make Ghost of Yotei stronger? Are they stupid?

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    24 days ago

    Its no news tbh, all Ubi games have done for a long time, look at valhalla, mirage, prince of persia lost crown and such

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      24 days ago

      They have ram monitors? I know they have denuvo and such but this is first time I have heard of a ‘ram monitor’

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        24 days ago

        I thought they did and that was one of the reasons Windows updates where breaking their games, but might have been a mistake on my part. Denuvo and mandatory Ubi link have been their standard for quite some time at least.

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          24 days ago

          Maybe, I have no idea… I do think we would have heard about it if it was in mirage for example.

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    23 days ago

    all this to protect people from pirating buggy slop that’ll be notoriously broken on day one.

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      23 days ago

      Isn’t fitgirl a repacker?

      Also, did recent denuvo games get cracked?

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        22 days ago

        Yeah, FitGirl it’s just a repacker not a cracker. All they do is compress the cracked game and make an easy to use installer, DODI also does the same thing.

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        23 days ago

        Probably thinking of Empress. The most recent Denuvo game to be cracked was Dead Island 2, which is a year and a half ago. And if we don’t count Empress or MKDEV*, (because it’s reasonable to assume they aren’t going to want to crack this), then it’s eFootball in 2020: 4 years ago.

        *MKDEV used to only crack Football Manager, as to allow modding. Football Manager now allows a method for MKDEV’s mod to run without removing Denuvo.

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        23 days ago

        Good thing Sony doesn’t even have a launcher. But hey, we’re still all mad. Because internet.

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    23 days ago

    What’s well intentioned about not letting me use Cheat Engine on my own game. I’m not interacting with anyone else, I can’t ruin the game’s economy, or make people’s PvP experience worse. The worst thing I could do is make my own experience worse. They’re even including macro’s in that – A wide-spread accessibility feature.

    I already bought the game, what incentive is there to make sure I can’t enjoy it?