Copy safety locks out disgruntled participant from Steam title – remoted case or larger downside?

Just as unattractive a sight because the enemies in Dead Space: A locked entry to the game.

The copy safety respectively the Anti-Tamper-Denuvo usually manages to stop a title from being pirated for a very long time. Among players, nonetheless, Denuvo doesn’t take pleasure in such a superb fame. Why, that exhibits circumstances like the present Reddit post, which is the topic of this publish.

What occurred? An Italian purchaser of the extremely acclaimed Dead Space remake was aggravated to seek out, upon launching the game, that an error message associated to Denuvo would not let him into the game. The German wording of the message seen within the picture beneath reads as follows:

The linked web page talks a few firewall setting presumably stopping communication with the Denuvo servers. One ought to copy an in-game message about it and enter it right into a kind. However, the participant does not appear to have gotten so far as the game.

Whether the issue was with the editor or with the Denuvo servers is just not clarified within the feedback to the publish. Either approach, it’s annoying to be confronted with such difficulties after the authorized buy of a game.

You can learn the way a lot we appreciated the remake of Dead Space 1 within the detailed evaluation at GS Plus:

Dead Space Remake in evaluation: An excellent game turns into a masterpiece

Has one thing like this occurred to you?

Fortunately, it does not appear to occur too usually within the case of the Dead Space remake that you simply get locked out by the copy safety. Otherwise the Steam reviews will in all probability be clearly worse. However, we’re usually occupied with whether or not you’ve gotten encountered one thing like this earlier than.

We have subsequently created a brief survey on the subject and are wanting ahead to a vigorous participation – be at liberty to hitch us!

Our Denuvo experiences: In the context of expertise checks, we ourselves have solely had issues with Denuvo in a technique thus far: by altering {hardware} an excessive amount of. This is just not allowed indefinitely to stop a game with the identical account getting used on too many different PCs or shared with too many different gamers.

How usually it really works to alter essential elements just like the graphics card or CPU earlier than you’ll be able to’t entry the game for twenty-four hours can differ relying on the title. However, it often works at the least 5 occasions. This ensures that you simply often do not discover something about this limitation as an everyday participant.

We have already taken a more in-depth have a look at the dangerous fame of Denuvo, together with the technical background, in a big Plus Report. Please take a look on the corresponding article if you’re on this matter:

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How dangerous is Denuvo actually?

How have your experiences with Denuvo’s anti-tamper system specifically, and replica safety usually, turned out thus far in games? Has every little thing largely labored with out issues or have you ever encountered difficulties extra usually? Let us know within the feedback!