Wonder what Denuvo is going to do about this

Fitgirl’s statement:


Yes, I know PRAGMATA release files have been leaked. Yes, I know that PRAGMATA was Hypervisor-bypassed. No, I won’t put my repack before an official release date and time. I don’t support leaks and I don’t like when people do something for hype only. Legit users, who paid for their game deserve to play it first. Not the pirates. It doesn’t matter how much you hate Denuvo or Capcom, those games are there because people buy something from developers and publishers. And when those who don’t pay get an Advanced Access while legit customers suck their fingers is just plain wrong.

Of course, not every releaser share my principles and you’ll see releases popping here and there, but I’ll keep my stance. Leaks are bad. Don’t do leaks. Don’t use leaks. You’ve waited for years, you can wait a few hours more.

  • makotech222 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    people need to realize the devs have already been paid; its called a salary. No matter how much you buy, none of the money will go to them lol its just to the owners.

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      7 days ago

      yeah, they have been paid and I’m assuming they also want to keep getting paid instead of getting laid off, possibly even make another game! a wild concept, I know

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        7 days ago

        hilarious thing to post after the last few years of watching companies release extremely successful games and then fire everyone anyways

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        6 days ago

        I’m pretty sure that the CEO salary alone can cover any money loss that a leak like this can cause… Laying off devs because of something like this is unjustified.

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          6 days ago

          Never said that wasn’t the case. And as I mentioned in another comment - I don’t think there’s much damage from leaks like this, because you have to REALLY want to play it if you’re willing to go through with the hypervisor bypass. I was arguing against a general statement of “who cares, they’ve already been paid, just pirate it”. The leaks themselves are just kinda bad taste tbh?

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    7 days ago

    you don’t pirate the game because you care for the devs, i don’t pirate the game because it looks bad, we are not the same

    also imagine installing what is essentially an unremovable rootkit on your computer to play death stranding if it was bad

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        7 days ago

        Already feels like I’m poking the jenga tower with (1.) fitgirl repacks constantly try to play their music, “redirect websites”, and open their site (all minor but, cmon, can you please…) and (2.) another repacker had “FREE SOFTWARE CLICK HERE.URL” in the files and constantly has the game in “game” and not in a folder named after the game.

        Like there are SO many games I want to play. I can hold off on Anno: This Time Its a Bit Better for a few months/years. Especially if it means I don’t brick a gpu or get epically pwned for dogecoin.

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          The installer comes with a mute button and the website stuff is completely optional through check boxes. Compared to hypervisor that’s like someone saying “I’m afraid to nuclear war” and you replying “Yeah, and my neighbour keeps saying hello to me so I stopped leaving the house”

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    7 days ago

    lol idk why fitgirl acting so scary she’s supposedly russian and they don’t give a fuck about piracy

    idc about the game really, looks kinda shit, but hey get fucked denuvo!

    edit: some of the comments on fitgirl’s post are amazing

    edit2: very weird moralizing from people; people saying that early releases hurt dev studios (dog who gives a fuck lmao), saying that denuvo 2.0 will come faster if we get more leaks, people saying piracy is immoral anyway so we should do less bad in general even if we’re doing bad? and finally one guy who is like HAVE YOU NO HEART?? TEH GAME THESE PEOPLE WORKED ON FOR YEARS GOT LEAKED 2 DAYS EARLY HAVE YOU NO SHAME IT WILL RUIN MARKETING AND SPOIL THE STORY AND COMPLETELY BANKRUPT THEM AND THE PUBLISHERS WILL KILL THEIR FAMILY idk man people have dogshit for brains for sure.

    but every single person telling fitgirl she’s being a hypocrite is great, too bad seeing her sycophants dogpile on them ‘IF U DON’ LIKE IT MAKE UR OWN PIRACY SITE WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS" maybe i’ll start following dodi’s repacks or something esp if they don’t have as rabid of a fanbase

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    7 days ago

    She aint wrong about leaks, but not sure how many people actually jump through the hoops to selfown themselves with the hypervisor bypass