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Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance (www.tbsnews.net)
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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 103 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yesterday I tried to mod persona 4 golden on Linux. After a couple hours of headaches and some help from the developer, I finally managed to fix the problem and launch persona aaaaand denuvo shut it down.

Denuvo literally shut down my legal version of P4G because I used one too many versions of proton. This is why I support fitgirl

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Denuvo registers every version of Proton as a different computer. So when you cycle through a bunch of different versions, Denuvo sees you booting it on a bunch of different computers back-to-back. IIRC Denuvo’s ToS allows for 5 different computers to boot a game within 24 hours. So it locks you out for 24h, as an anti-account-sharing measure. It has hit the spotlight a few times recently, because of the Steam Deck users needing to cycle through Proton versions.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago

Same thing happened to me with Street fighter 6. I was just trying to get it to run and kept switching proton versions and it got locked.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They still pay for Denuvo for Persona 4? What a waste of money.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Atlus, like many Japanese companies, is very protective of their ips, for worse. There is no better

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Euy even buy games anymore if you can't play them?

If you paid, it's not really yours.