Quick Look | ABZU (2016) This should have stayed on Consoles ...
3... in other words , a Indie game should not have a DRM on them ,
... or how a high profile DENUVO DRM ruined theirs reputation on the PC platform
So lets me start with , its a OK game ... a spiritual successor to Journey ,a PS4 game ... but this time your not in a desert, but in the ocean ... a story about a diver, that gets to know he is a android... activated to fix a machine to kill this world... but in the end, enchanted by the beauty of it... saves it ...
But then we get into DENUVO DRM that is hated by people , same as Starforce (that ruined peoples hardware... from hard drives ,burners and readers )... if you ask why, well ... its a cryptographic drm that encrypt your data in your ram and HDD on the fly (by masking another drm that protects the product)... taking 10% or more of your cpu ( and 10% slowing down your game , imagine game needs new higher specs all thanks to DRM lulz) ... and has to have constant read and write access to do its job ...
So why the hate (if the 10% more sys.req. did not irked you)... our new gen of OS need a SSD to properly run ...a SSD that had limited writes on it... and this DRM needs constant read and write access to do its job ( it also uses heavy loads of virtual memory) with so many APi calls that would make your head spin... what if i would tell you, a denuvo drm game would kill your ssd in 8 to 10 months ... then of those 5 to 7 years of a normal ssd use ... yeah , then you would be like "Shit , i am no buying that"
Some of you would argue ... play this from a normal hdd , but then i would say ... tell that to Laptop users that from 2014 (give or take) had only SSD drives in them ... and why this indie company used this on PC ? same with the game INSIDE ? to save them from the grey area... come on, that's a weak excuse .
People where pissed ... and when coders removed the drm ... the devs put this game on GOG (same thing happened with Inside) ... but they lost theirs face to the people, that reacted to this "Wait so now you E-beg people to buy this ... first of ,why did you add a horrible DRM like DENUVO on your indie...you want us now to buy it , screw you"
70% said "crew" to 30% "yey , but why Denuvo in the first place ???"
In other words ... when your a indie don't do shit like that , when you want to build a good healthy relation with our PC audience