‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game

Urge to pirate, rising…

Just another reason to wait long after release to buy a game. Denuvo charges games companies to administer the DRM infrastructure and most developers will strip it out of their games after it's been out for a while.

Buying games on launch is one of the most anti-customer experiences you can get. And that's saying something in our wonderful capitalist economy

Earlier this year, I got a game I liked on steam. Pretty much 3d Rimworld. After playing for 20 hours over a few weeks, I sporadically started getting errors about me having "no hardware activations" left for the game, and how I should wait 24 hours. I have never installed it on any other machine.

It is so very silly that a pirated copy would be the more seamless experience.

Meanwhile, DRM-free Doom (2016) is here, it also runs quite good >>> https://www.gog.com/en/game/doom_2016

Refund and wait for a crack. Fuck Denuvo and fuck Bethesda for using them

Yet more evidence that the smartest thing you can do if the game comes from a AAA studio is hold off on buying it for 6-12 months.

All this drm nonsense ever does is punishes the paying customers and maybe delays cracked version by a few days, but fucking pencil pushers still put it into everything.

Only way for this to change is to vote with your (virtual) feet and wallet and "cancel" games that have DRM, in my opinion.

Fuck Microsoft. They enshittify everything and they support a genocide by helping to select targets to murder. No game is worth supporting this.

Didn't fall for it, even when they whisper sweet little lies in my ear, I just say to myself, I quit gaming. I'm done. If I can't own it, I ain't playing it. And now I just joined the class war. Because you know, there is no war but the class war.

i wanted to buy it because i know it will be good.

but ill pirate it instead as soon as its cracked. thanks ill save myself the money, you fucks.

You get what you pay for. You buy denuvo, you get denuvo.

you aren't buying doom because it has denuvo. im not buying doom because i am boycotting microsoft products. we are probably a little similar

Aside from screwing Linux users, they're also screwing AMD users with forced ray-tracing + broken FSR, and I'd imagine there's also a lot of overlap there.

Man, they're taking the "dark ages" part seriously.

After how id treated my man Mick Gordon, I'm torrenting cracked versions of their games here on out - pulling the patient gamer card.

Fuck the management at id. Just another corporate machine.

Denuvo identifies a user opening a game with multiple versions of Proton as multiple machines. It thinks that's piracy and locks the user out of the game

I never buy/install games with Denuvo. Guess it will be a while before I'm playing this.

Seeing this pains me, especially considering Id Software's history with Linux. Prior to being bought by Bethesda, most of Id's games had official native Linux ports. Even Doom 3 had a native Linux port, it doesn't seem to work anymore but there are source ports like Dhewm3 available for it.

Aww, that's disappointing. Linux users with a DS or who use emulators should look into Orcs & Elves in the meantime. It's another fantasy-flavored FPS from ID and it's pretty good.

This is why native support still matters. Anything not supported can pull the rug out from under you at any time.

Eh 70 dollars for 10 hours of repetitive gameplay is bad value anyway.

anti-consumer feature is anti-consumer. more news at 11

Looks like sailing is back on the menu, boys!

That probably explains all of the crashes reported by windows users too. ID Software what happened? You were supposed to be the chosen one.

I get paid today and was gonna pick this up tonight... Guess it's back to Oblivion then!

Was this before or after this: https://lemmy.world/post/29593011

Because I'm curious why Valve would have gone to so much trouble to make the game run on Linux just to ruin that.

Pause?

Well cool, now I know not to pick up the game yet.

Not that I would have bought it - not my type of game - but this game gets on my blacklist.

Only pay money for open source because you can actually own it

am gonna stick to Classic Doom(including doom 64) ,thanks.

even tho i didnt play doom 64 for a while.

+Doesn't steam have DRM already