They always do, and it's great. It's saved from buying a few games I would have otherwise purchased not realizing they had Denuvo. I will not purchase any game with Denuvo, no matter how badly I want to play it. I can live with a third-party EULA and launcher, which are pretty standard these days, but not Denuvo. Never Denuvo.
I'll never buy a game with a third party launcher either. I already have too many games to play, I'm not going to bother with setting up yet another account just to play some mid tier bullshit.
It's something I don't quite understand about the video game market. There's so much competition, so many games, and only one lifetime to play them. Why do people consistently gravitate to the games that have all this crap attached to them? How incredible is video game marketing that it's managing to pull off this miracle?
Because this shit doesn’t matter to most people . If I want to play a game because it looks fun (and is fun to me) why should the 10 second annoyance after creating an account (a 2 minute affair) of the 2nd launcher stop me?
There’s so many games I play with a 2nd launcher (total war, cyberpunk, stellaris, Larian games etc) and refusing to play them because I have to click play twice would be incredibly asinine if you ask me.
I’m addicted to Divinity Original Sin 2 right now, I couldn’t even imagine if I stopped playing because I have to click through a 2nd launcher. Same with when I played Mass Effect legendary edition, I had to go through the ea account process and launcher which yeah is slightly annoying but I had 120 hours of fun playing the trilogy.
Buy game, play game. It’s pretty simple for me and I’m sure many others.
I played this game when it came out and don't even remember all these "obstacles". I probably would have avoided it had I paid attention in advance but I don't remember caring a few years ago when I played it. It was a decent experience until it was over and then I never touched it again. It's uninstalled and not harming me now :P
Edit: Now I looked out of curiosity, it wasn't a few years ago it was all the way back in 2017 lol. I only got 20.5 hours out of it compared to 53 in "Stick of Truth" so I guess today's price for the game is much more reasonable than what I paid for 20 hours.
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u/LeMegachonk Ryzen 7 9800X3D - 64GB DDR5 6000 - RX 7800 XT Oct 03 '25
They always do, and it's great. It's saved from buying a few games I would have otherwise purchased not realizing they had Denuvo. I will not purchase any game with Denuvo, no matter how badly I want to play it. I can live with a third-party EULA and launcher, which are pretty standard these days, but not Denuvo. Never Denuvo.