Interesting. I haven’t played the other SW games but it appears to be two different styles of management sim in one. There’s the aboveground part which looks like a Banished-like, and then the underground game which looks like Evil Genius or something like that…
By blocking unauthorized emulations on PC, studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window, which is the most important period for monetization.
Uh huh, yeah, this will definitely just create money out of thin air from people who couldn’t afford it in the first place.
The Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection will ensure that anyone wishing to play the game has to buy a legitimate copy.
To say nothing of Switches running custom firmware. There is absolutely no way for a game to detect this, so it will still be easy to pirate with those. Games will still leak early. Nothing will change.
This is a grift. Studios will probably spend more to license this “technology” than they stand to “save” by preventing emulation. They are taking advantage of clueless game studio execs and they know it.
While it requires setting up your on site to take money, Steam has always allowed developers to create keys for free. They can sell or give those away for 100% of the revenue indefinitely.
I wonder from a cost benefit analysis if even its even worth the effort. If someone is playing a game under emulation then most likely they never had the intention of buying the game. So what’s the point of using anti-emulation checks? It’s just an additional cost (and drag on development / testing) that doesn’t translate into extra sales.
I waas on the fence on getting a Switch, now that the price has dropped, but “Switch 2” has been rumored. I guess I won’t be getting a Switch then. Or whatever the next console will be.
I wonder if some games will perform better emulated, as the emulation would not need to put resources in to running Denuvo.
What do you consider performing better if emulated? Most switch games look and perform better on PC already due to upscaling. Some obviously have issues rendering though.
I mean that Denuvo WILL cause performance drops, and if said malware needs to be cracked and removed in order to emulate it, it means the emulators don’t have to bother emulating the built-in malware, and can instead use more resources to run the game. Even better than currently.
And will any of this help with piracy? Well, the average user will no longer be able to backup the official version, and you’d be breaking the law anyways, if you cracked it, so there is “no extra harm” skipping the part where you buy the official version, instead of just downloading the already cracked version. Sure, you risk getting malware, but with the official one you are sure to get malware.
[EDIT]: Let’s add: I don’t advocate for piracy, but if piracy is more convinient that the official route, it’s what will drive those who don’t mond pirating stuff.
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I guess this isn’t a bad setting for a survival game. Didn’t see anything that made this look especially interesting aside from the setting. I hope it’s good
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